🥦Mizuo's Travel Blog🥦No.27 - Flea market, Kayaking, and eating in...

Kayaking in Stockholm, Sweden

My friend came to visit me in Stockholm and I am going to write a blog about the second day.　Please check out my Travel Blog of the first day!

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🥦Mizuo's Travel Blog🥦No.26 - Gamla Stan, Stockholm with friend, Aug. 2022

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Hötorget flea market

When I asked my friend, "What do you want to do while you're here in Stockholm for sightseeing?" My friend's answer to my question was below~

1) I want to see the flea market.

2) I would like to visit Gustavsberg's pottery studio.

3) I want to eat Swedish food.

So we decided to go to the flea market first.

Flea market at Hötorget square

They sell whatever they want there every Sunday!! - https://www.visitstockholm.com/o/hotorget-fleamarket/

We had talked about going to all the places he wished to visit, hoping that he would make many happy memories even during his short stay.　My friend was very interested in antiques and seemed to have a good eye for them.　And, when he finds something popular in Japan, he sells it on the Internet too. ( My friend's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kiske_shop/?hl=en )

It was a pretty sunny day! What a beautiful day was!

There was a real variety of things on display. Some of the items were of such value that I honestly wondered if they were worth it, but it was interesting because it had a very flea market feel to it. Haha! It's very hard to find something valuable in the flea market, but it is very fun to take a look at them and buy what you like! Who cares if it is valuable or not!? Haha!

Hötorget flea market

https://www.visitstockholm.com/o/hotorget-fleamarket/

It was a summer day with temperatures rising to over 30 degrees Celsius. Since there is only about one week in a year when the temperature exceeds 30 degrees Celsius in Stockholm, I thought it was a really good time to come and visit.

My friend seemed to understand the general price range at this flea market, and was painstakingly researching what items were for sale and at what price.

Kayaking in Långholmen

https://langholmenkajak.se/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw870sO3x-QIVgtayCh2ZygQeEAAYASAAEgKHy_D_BwE

The next stop was the island of Longholmen, which is only a 15-minute train ride away. That island is a small island with a radius of about 30 minutes, and it is a beautiful area where many of the residents there are rich and own boats, or take kayaks to the lake from the kayak launch just around the corner.　I had been there a few times with friends and enjoyed kayaking so much that I thought it would be a great place for all of us to go.

OK! Let's go!!

I went kayaking in a one-person kayak and my friend went kayaking with my Sambo.　I had been kayaking a few times, so I chose the one-person kayak.

With a one-person kayak, I could easily go in the direction I wanted to go, but with a two-person kayak, of course, I was not moving fast enough and it was quite difficult to keep up with the two of them.　Darn! Wait for me!

The smileys face is where Stockholm City Hall is located. It took about an hour to get there and took an hour to get back to the starting point.

So beautiful! Stockholm City Hall! - https://cityhall.stockholm/city-hall-tower/

It took me about an hour to reach Stockholm City Hall Tower from the starting point by slow rowing. It was the first time for me to see Stockholm City Hall from the lake, and I had a very good memory of it. It was very fun to see people waving to us while they were sightseeing on the boat.

I got hungry! So, I had this hotdog to quench hunger! LOL!

I was pretty tired after two hours of kayaking!　When I got off the kayak, my friend said his arms were shaking.　(LOL).

Tired from kayaking, we decided to take a short rest.　Since we had come all this way to this beautiful island to have fun, we decided to go swimming for a bit.　My friend was more tired than I expected and decided to take a nap, but my sambo and I went for a short swim. Yay! No time to waste and enjoy this beautiful day!　However, the water temperature was colder than I expected, so I only put my feet in the water and didn't swim.　After all, lakes in Scandinavia are chilly even when the temperature outside is 30 degrees Celsius!　I also took a short nap afterwards, and it was great to take a nap under the shade of the trees with the sun shining through the trees.

I want to earn lots of lots of lots of money to own a boat like them! LOL!

It's time to eat and drink!

T J O G E T - Restaurant

https://www.instagram.com/tjoget/?hl=en

After two hours of paddling in a kayak and then a short swim, I became pretty hungry.　Besides, it was very hot that day and we were so thirsty, so I decided to have a beer before having dinner.　There was a very nice restaurant nearby, and we drank a lot of beer and cocktail there.　They had a very good cocktail menu.

Akkurat - Restaurang Södermalm

https://akkurat.se/

My friend wanted to try Swedish food, so we decided to go to a bar that serves Swedish food.　The bar is called Akkurat and is loved by the local Stockholmers. The menu, which includes a wide variety of local beers, is sure to satisfy even tourists.

There is a dish in Sweden where they eat raw meat, and we all ordered it and ate it together.　Japanese people eat fish raw, but Swedes have the custom of eating beef raw.　I was a little surprised at first, but once I tried it, it tasted so good! Trust me, it is true! Very delicious!

Omnipollo!!

http://www.omnipolloshatt.com/

https://omnipollo.com/

There's one Swedish beer that you just have to have when you come to Sweden!　Omnipollo!　I love this Swedish beer so much that I decided to go to the bar for a drink before going home.　Now that I think about it, we really ate and drank a lot that day!　LOL!

We really had a very productive day.　Maybe we did too much!? We went to the flea market, then went kayaking, then a little went swimming in the lake, then drunk beer and cocktails, then we ate raw meat!　It really was a great day.　AMAZING!!

ストックホルムのフリーマーケット

「ストックホルムに観光に来ている間に何がしたい？」と言うわたしの質問に友達が答えた回答は、

１）フリーマーケットが見てみたい

２）Gustavsberg(グスタフヴァリ）の陶芸工房が見てみたい

３）スウェーデン料理が食べたい

と言うことで、まずはフリーマーケットに行くことにしました。

短い滞在でも楽しい思い出をたくさん作ってほしいという思いもあって、希望する場所は全部行こうと話をしていました。　友達は骨董品にとても興味があって、かなりの目利きでが出来るようで、良い商品を見つけた場合はネットで販売しているようでした。

本当にいろんなものが陳列されていました。中には正直言って価値があるのかなと悩むような物も売っているのですが、それこととても蚤の市の感じがして面白かったです。

その日は気温もあがって、３０度を超える夏日でした。ストックホルムで３０度を超える日は１年のうちに１週間程度しかないので、本当に良い時期に遊びに来たなと思いました。

友人は大体の価格帯をこのフリーマーケットで理解したようで、どの様な商品がどのぐらいの価格で販売されているのかを丹念に調べていました。

ロングホルメン島でのカヤック体験

次に向かったのはロングホルメン島と言うしないから電車で１５分程度の島です。その島は半径３０分程度の小さな島で、そこの住人はお金持ちが多くてボートを所有していたり、すぐ近くのカヤック乗り場からカヤックに乗って湖に行ったりととてもきれいな地域です。　そこにはわたしも数回友人と行ったことがあって、カヤックがとても楽しかったのでこれはぜひみんなで行きたいなと思っていました。

わたしは１人乗り用のカヤックに乗って、友人はわたしのサンボと一緒に乗ってカヤックを楽しみました。　わたしは数回カヤックに乗った経験があったので、１人乗りを選びました。

１人乗り用のカヤックだと自分の行きたい方向に簡単に行けるのですが、２人乗り用だともちろん移動速度は早く、２人についていくのに結構大変でした。

スタートポイントからStockholm City Hall Tower (ストックホルム市庁舎) まではゆっくり漕いで、だいたい１時間ぐらいかかりました。わたしも湖の上からストックホルム市庁舎を見るのは初めてで、とても良い思い出を作ることが出来ました。船に乗って観光している方がわたし達に手を振ってくれたりと、とても楽しかったです。

やっぱり２時間カヤックをすると結構疲れました！　カヤックから降りると、友達は腕がぷるぷるふるえてるーと言っていました。　（笑）

カヤックで疲れて、すこし休憩することにしました。　せっかく遊びに来たのだから泳ぎに行こうということになり、少しだけ泳ぎに行くことにしました。　友達は思ったより疲れたようで寝ていたのですが、わたしとサンボは少し泳ぎに行きました。　しかし、水温が思ったより冷たくて、わたしは足を付ける程度で、泳ぎませんでした。　やっぱり、北欧の湖は外の気温が３０度でもひやっとしますね！　わたしもそのあとは少し昼寝したのですが、木漏れ日が注ぐ木陰での昼寝は最高でした。