Add prosperity to this year’s Akshaya Tritiya with a wide range of exquisite jewellery collections to celebrate the festivity
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There is the atmospheric Stockholm Cathedral, whose interiors have the largest medieval wooden sculpture — a sculpture carved in oak wood representing St George battling the dragon. We walk along the three feet wide Martin Trotsigs Grand where we can touch both sides of the narrow alley as we walk. Old town is full of tacky souvenirs like plastic Viking helmets and touristy tat, but veer off the main alleys, and it’s like a time warp.
Djurgarden is the nature lover’s delight — it used to be the King’s private hunting grounds — today it’s a maze of walking paths, picnic spots, museums and the open air Skansen. For a glimpse into pastoral Sweden, we spend some time at Skansen, a large open-air museum with transplanted buildings ranging from ancient farmsteads to town houses, churches, shops from all over Sweden. There are guides dressed in traditional outfits, craft demonstrations like glass blowing and shoe making, Nordic animals in enclosures and picnic benches. I watch entranced as a cheese maker makes cheese the traditional way in a restored homestead. Djurgarden is part of the larger green oasis called the Ekoparken, the world’s first national urban park with centuries old oak trees, unique bio-diversity and animals like marten, mink and foxes as well as royal palaces, and a fishing lodge dating back to 1690. It’s a great lung of the city of 1.7 million — where denizens can picnic, walk or meet friends and enjoy the tranquillity of nature.
In spite of some eyebrows raised at the astronomical costs of the wedding, the royal family is still revered by the locals.
Every Swede seems to have a pet and a cycle. Their love of the outdoors is evident from the joggers and cyclists that we see all over the city. Everywhere in Stockholm we see the fika culture. Having a coffee with cake or a sandwich. Sitting for hours chatting with friends seems to be a very Swedish institution. Spending in kroners also makes us very careful — it is one of the most expensive countries in the world and even a MacDonald’s value meal doesn’t come that cheap.
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