With this post, I put together all the useful information I gathered during my trip to Stockholm in May 2017.
– Flight: from Rome, it takes about 3 hours and 10 minutes. I booked my flight with Norwegian, starting from the Leonardo Da Vinci airport and I found myself well (when I bought the tickets, in December 2016, it was also the cheapest company);
– Arriving in the city centre: there are various options, of course. The first is the Arlanda Express, which takes you to the “T-Centralen” station in about 20 minutes, or the buses. I chose the second option, in particular, the bus of the “Flygbussarna”. The ticket costs 119 crowns (about 12.60 euros) and takes about 45 minutes to get to the station of T-Centralen (buses also have free wifi on board, and the departures are decidedly very numerous both for the airport and for the city centre);
– Subway: Stockholm has three metro lines, first identified through 3 colours (blue, green and red); each has then 2 or 3 branches, defined by a number (green, for example, with 17, 18 and 19). When you have to arrive at a specific attraction, therefore, pay close attention to both the colour and the number!
– Tickets for public transport: The ticket for the subway costs 42 crowns, but be careful because the automatic ticket machines only accept credit cards! The bus + subway ticket costs 43 crowns; you can buy it in the 7eleven or Pressbyrån convenience stores and lasts 75 minutes;
I bought a 72-hour card (valid for all transports in town): it costs 240 crowns and 72 hours start from the first validation (so if you stamp on Thursday at 10 am it will be valid until 10 am on Sunday);
– Announcements on public transport (bus and metro): they are always all in Swedish. I advise you to ever pay close attention to the screens that signal the next stop to avoid mistakes.
– 7eleven or Pressbyrån: as I told you before, these two are “minimarket” where you can buy, in addition to tickets, snacks, drinks (even sweets and coffee for breakfast) and other things such as newspapers and magazines;
– Tourist office: you find it in Sergels Tor. In mid-May, the area was affected by significant renovations, but the agency is still reported through quite visible indications (on pink fuchsia background);
– Currency: as I have already written, the official money is the Swedish crown. The change fluctuates slightly, but we can say that average is around 1 euro = 9.6 SEK (I saw, these days, get to 9.7 and even 9.4);
– Time: the same as Italy
– Hours of light: I knew that in summer, in the Nordic countries, there is much more light than Italy … But until I arrived here I did not fully understand this thing annd during my stay I loved it!
– Temperatures: I thought, naively, to find fresh, lower and warmer temperatures than the ones you could find in Italy in the same period. My journey lasted from 17 to 21 May, and the average temperature was around 24/25 degrees with a strong only that heated a lot