Tuesday, August 28, 2018: Stockholm, Drottningholm Palace

We solved the lack of decaffeinated coffee in the hotel issue this morning as Beverly walked the one-half mile to Starbucks and back for her latte.
Our first visit today is to the Town Hall of Stockholm.

This is the chamber where the 101 members of town council meet.  The ceiling is designed to look like an upside down Viking ship.
The Town Hall has many rooms designed to be used for official functions.  This hall is done with millions of gold leaf mosaics.
The Blue Hall holds 1,300 for the Nobel banquet dinner.
Then we take a boat ...
to Drottningholm Palace, the summer home of the Swedish royal family.  The flags indicate that the royal family is in Sweden today but it is not known if they are in attendance at the Palace.

But before going inside, we need to stop for lunch.

Veal burger, mashed potatoes and lingonberries ...
Inside the Palace is a leather tapestry and many chandeliers.



The library ...

 Beverly is relaxing in the garden at Drottningholm.
After returning to the hotel, we go for a walk in the King's Garden and stop for a glass of wine.

Dinner is on our own again tonight.  We find the restaurant in the Fotografiska Museet in the nearby island of Slussen.  The restaurant is vegetarian "with supplements".  I opt for the three course with a supplement of arctic char and a supplement of wine accompanying each course.

Our window table has a jaw dropping view over the Baltic to other islands of Stockholm.
My first course is tomatoes.
The second course is beans ...
accompanied by the "lightly smoked" arctic char.
The third course is fennel ice cream with raspberry sherbet.  Delicious.
Had I know about the menu I probably would not have picked a vegetarian restaurant but I am glad that I did.  I didn't know because the on-line menu was in Swedish.  Everything was delicious.

The restaurant is in the Fotografiska Museet which is exhibiting a Linda and Mary McCartney photo exhibition which we perused.

Goodnight Stockholm.

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