Stockholm, Sweden's capital city, is built on a series of islands between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea.  Stockholm has all the attractions of a big city, but only one and a half million people live in the greater metro area, compared with about 8 million in the greater Chicago area.  That's almost the entire population of all of Sweden.  Hmmm, I think our family might need to immigrate in reverse and help out our density-challenged kin. 

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The Grand Hotel

the National Museum

The Af Chapman (masted ship, now a youth hostel

Stockholm's oldest public park, where the hoi poloi could mix with the finer families in the 18th century

The Medieval Museum is tucked under the bridge; it incorporates part of the medieval city wall

Behind is the Royal Palace, no longer a residence, but still with a changing of the guard

Parliament