What Will Your Stockholm Encounter Be? ...catching a poetry reading at Street, Sodermalm's hippest market and hangout (p18) ...sampling a cloudberry truffle at Chokladfabriken (p94) ...pondering pygmy marmosets at the open-air Skansen museum (p80) ...savoring fika (coffe and cake) in the barrel-vaulted cellar of Cafe Art (p45) ...picking up some new threads at trendsetting Acne's flagship store (p59) ...zipping around in the Baltic Sea on a RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) (p20) Discover Twice the City in Half the Time... ...full-color pull-out map and detailed neighborhood maps for easy navigation ...our expert author recommends the very best sights, restaurants, shops and entertainment ...unique itineraries, from keeping your budget under control to embracing the city during its Nordic winter chill ...locals share their insights: an editor dispels Swedish stereotypes and a designer defines what keeps Stockholm style so avant-garde
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Loved It! I visited Stockholm in July 08 for the first time, using Stockholm Encounter as my guide.
The book was very well written - vivid and entertaining, and captured the city well. Also the neighbourhood-based format worked well - saved lots of to-ing and fro-ing.
The book yielded up some great finds. A few places seemed to have closed down since the book was published, but I guess this is inevitable in a large city. Overall the reviews were accurate, and for a book of its size I thought that it... more info
Could be better (This book was published in Sept. 2007, so if you are reading it after a new edition comes out, perhaps things have changed). The best thing about this book is its compact size, which makes it easy to tote with you. We (I and a partner) were in Stockholm for five weeks for a sort of working vacation, and had it with us every day, so that we could make plans quickly if we found ourselves with extra time. Mostly, that worked well. A bigger book would have been a drag to carry around, and this one has the key... more info
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