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SkyView I did it! I'm non the best soul when it comes to heights too enclosed spaces, therefore I've been a fiddling leery nearly trying i of Stockholm's newest attractions... SkyView . Fortunately, I was given the chance during an educational seminar led yesteryear the Stockholm Visitors Board final week. SkyView is a especially designed drinking glass gondola that takes you lot 130 meters upwards to the top of the Ericsson Globe Arena . Going up... Called Globen for curt ( the globe ), it is the largest indoor arena inwards Stockholm alongside a capacity of upwards to 16,000 people too is the venue for most large concerts (Lady Gaga, Paul Simon, Tom Petty this summer) too indoor sporting events ( ice hockey globe championships this May) inwards Stockholm. The edifice itself is quite odd & spectacular. Shaped similar a large white ball (some country it looks similar a golf game ball), it is the largest spherical edifice inwards the globe too a famous business office o...

Photo: Peter Backman, Smaka på Stockholm I'm back... recharged too fix for a peachy summer! And nosotros rootage the summertime amongst a smasher this weekend. First out is 1 of my favorite festivals: A Taste of Stockholm ( Smaka På Stockholm ). This is an annual eatery festival held inwards the Kungsträdgården commons inwards primal Stockholm starting on June 1st too going on until June 6th. xx restaurants volition accept tents too they stand upward for a whole myriad of cuisines including Swedish, Southeast Asian, Indian, South American too Ethiopian. Something for everyone! Besides food, in that place volition hold out beer too vino tents also every bit peachy alive music performances too cooking competitions. I actually similar this festival (this volition hold out the 20th yr inwards a row the festival is held) every bit it has a existent dainty atmosphere, centrally located too is pop amongst Stockholmers. Photo: Peter Backman, Smaka på Stockholm Speaking of annual events, ...

If you lot are travelling to Stockholm (heck, anywhere inwards Europe) during the finally 3 weeks of June, you lot won't last able to immature lady that the European Football Championships  (Soccer to you lot Yanks out there) are existence played! This, along amongst the Olympics as well as World Cup, is i of the biggest sporting events inwards the world. The games volition last played inwards (co-hosts) Poland as well as the Ukraine. Sweden has qualified thus in that location should last to a greater extent than or less dainty festival atmosphere hither inwards Stockholm during these weeks (either that or low depending on the outcome). If you lot are inwards Stockholm during this fourth dimension as well as desire to run into to a greater extent than or less matches, as well as thus halt yesteryear the Rival Hotel ! We volition last showing many of the games on a moving-picture exhibit enshroud inwards our theater which seats 700 people. In the yesteryear (World Cup, Euro Cha...