Stockholm is a great place to visit and we enjoy ourselves each time. The harbour staff are very friendly and treat us as pets and Leif the harbour master is a good friend. We ate at the BlaPorten restaurant in the garden of th eHallwylska Gallery very enjoyably and introduced others to it. We also much enjoyed the exhibition at the gallery. The current one is called Crafts which is a very inadequate description. On room had only one exhibit; a vast waterfall of 500Kg. of blue denim (old trousers, cut up and sewn). It was about 6 metres high. Another room had a large number of ceramic fantasy animals, all painted in bright colours. Less interesting was a display of various sized cake tins with pattern decoration which turned out to be ceramics - very thin ceramics. The Hallwyska specialised in wierd but enjoyable exhibitions. We also visited the Thielska ( much rehanging, a new restaurant and a requirement to wear overshoes) and Valdemars Udde where there was a fresh exhibition of parts of the collection - always enjoyable.
In Gamla Stan we discoved a new restaurant "The Hairy Pig Deli" run by and anglo swedish couple where the man specialises in making very good sausages. We spent a week ther but in the end felt we needed to leave and get back into the archipelago again.
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