Stockholm, Sweden + Add a trip

Esque

Techno and house on Fridays and Saturdays between 11pm and 4am in central Stockholm. The club is run by Mattias Hedlund, Anders Åkergren and Fredrik Nilsson. Great atmosphere, and they get a lot of international acts. Check out the podcast on the website to get a feel for the kind of music you can expect!

Fifth Ave. Shoe Repair

Nice clothing in a nice part of town.

Shopping - Fashion

Avant-garde fashion label from Stockholm. Sold in their own store and at selected stores like Weekdays and Åhlens

CD shop

For all matal maniacs go to Sound Pollution!!

Classic Scandinavian interior design and fabrics

Take a trip to the Stockholm institution of Svenskt Tenn and check out their wonderful colourful fabrics and beautiful furniture. There are also some great books about the history of Swedish interior design and the Josef Frank influence.

Kalendarium

Online guide to Stockholm nightclubs. It's in Swedish but you can probably figure out genres, dates and locations anyway.

Akki Sushi

A true hole-in-the-wall, but quite good sushi. Super-nice people.

Cool Hotel

Hotel Rival sits on Mariatorget in cool Sodermalm. Friendly, helpful, knowledgeable staff, great breakfasts and good attached cafe and bar.

Sandhamn is worth the trip

I lived in Sthlm for a year and I loved the boat trips at the archipelago. My favourite island was Sandhamn (www.sandhamn.se). Very far and very worth the visit! You can find timetables and boat info at http://www.waxholmsbolaget.se

Skansen is a blast

If you like history and historical architecture, make time to visit the Skansen Open Air Museum

Meetings at Nordic Light Hotel

Nordic Light Hotel is a great place for meetings, especially if they are long and you need to maintain a high level of energy and creativity throughout the day. The hotel is located just outside the railway station so you'll be there in half an hour if coming from the airport by Arlanda Express. The facilities, refreshments/snacks and the view over the city (10th floor) are magnificient.

City Bikes

The blue stockholm city bikes are a very pleasant way to get around, but with three major limitations - you can't pick one up from the stands after 18:30, you may only have one for 3 hours before it should be returned to a stand, and it can be difficult finding a free parking space next to the main attractions (esp. Skansken).

Liljeholmsbadet

A little floating bath house with electric (not too hot) saunas and a warm pool. Mondays is ladies only and friday is for gentlemen.

Trendy affordable shopping

Lovely design shops and cafes into a stylish swedish environment.

Caffetteria del corso

Great coffe italian style.

Thai

One of the absolute best Thai restaurangs in Stockholm is Koh Phangan on Södermalm, both from a food and interior perspective! Only issue is that it's very difficult to get a table. Booking in advance is reccomended

Drop Coffee.

This is one of the best - if not _the_ best café in Stockholm. One of the proprietors - Oskar - previously ran Tvålpalatset, which was the best café in Stockholm. Drop Coffee has even higher ambitions as they are now refurnishing an entirely new location close to Mariatorget subway station, where they'll serve coffee using state-of-the-art machinery, great knowledge of the entire coffee-making process and excellent service.

The people involved are really passionate about everything involved with coffee, not to mention they're holding courses in everything coffee.

They're on http://dropcoffee.blogspot.com and http://twitter.com/dropcoffee

They're also on Twitter: http://twitter.com/dropcoffee

Nice park near Stureplan, with all that entails.

Small shop that sells excellent tea and coffee. Everything comes packaged in custom-made packaging that's excellent as a gift. Does not take credit cards.

Pet Sounds Bar (http://www.petsoundsbar.se) in Södermalm is a great spot for live music, or having a drink, and check the record store two doors down!

Amazing things, wonderful place to shopping

Jobb24 is one of the leading job portals and recruitment sites in Sweden. You can find vacant job openings at Jobb24.

Nice concept and great experience. Unfortunately, the place it too far from the city to offer the best view possible. If you ever been to the London eye, you'll be disapointed.

If you make just one tourist stop in Stockholm, this should be it. The Vasa is an extraordinary piece of history, a ghostly whole ship rescued from the bottom of the harbor and preserved partly through science, partly through miracle. Built too tall to be seaworthy, the ship's original journey barely got it out of the harbor before it sank. Now, the 17th-century ship is reconstructed whole, almost entirely composed of its original wood, alongside spooky remnants and reconstructions of the lives lost aboard.

finest live jazz since 1977 Fasching is a concert hall, restaurant, bar & nightclub

Worth visiting with kids.