A collection of random photos from the city of Stockholm, Sweden, where I’m spending a few days of vacation. (Click on images to magnify.)

Stockholm shoreline (the city is a collection of islands):

Aerial Views from the Ericsson Globe Arena, the largest spherical building in the world, the outside of which one can ride up in a glass bubble elevator

City Hall Exterior

City Hall “Blue Hall” where the Nobel Prize Banquet is held

City Hall civil ceremony marriage room and reception hall

City Hall Golden Hall where the Nobel Prize Ball is held

“Mirror Lake” (my coinage), not far from where I stay:

Mother and son biking from work and school, a common sight. No wonder relatively few Swedes are fat:

Typical, tightly neat and impeccable Swedish home; and contrail over rooftop at dusk:

Millesgarden, founded by Swedish sculptor Carl Milles and wife Olga, a collection of statue-dotted outdoor gardens and interior collections of antiquities.