On our second day we returned to Djurgarden Island to visit Sweden's original outdoor museum, Skansen. Kind of like Barkerville, except larger, with buildings brought in from all over the country to represent different regions and eras.
Oh, look Leo, a bakery!
It took most of the day to visit only a portion of the park. We chatted with an iron monger who showed us tools made by Husqvarna and Sandvik, and an original Electrolux refrigerator. A housewife from the 30s explained that hers was a new profession with increased affluence, previously most women had to work on the farm or in the family business.
Had to stop for a Kanelbulle and coffee, of course.
We ate paper-thin flatbread made from barley - mmmm, tasty cardboard, and chatted with a man knotting a fishing net. He also showed us woven birch bark clogs, and told us about the beliefs and superstitions of the time..
There were churches, Sami dwellings, a zoo of Swedish wildlife, including a very bored brown bear,
and even a manor house.
We had dinner in the Ostermalm neighbourhood. Everyone was out in the street cafes having an after work drink and enjoying the beautiful weather. Most Stockholm restaurants thoughtfully provide blankets for their outdoor customers, it's quite a bit north of Paris here.
Finally, we walked along the shore of the Sodermalm neighbourhood looking for the best view.
This supposedly "gritty," working class neighbourhood is where the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo lived, but we happened upon a little old village now swallowed by the city.
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