Stockholm, Sweden

a great train card coming from Stockholm!

here you can see the old and the new type of trains used in the commuter rail system in Stockholm...you can take a guess which is the new and which is the old one :)
The new one is also called the X60 commuter train, while the name of the other one is X1.
Despite all my train travels, I still need to take a ride on such as X60, or a high-speed train...if we dont' count the subway trains here..

the stamp was issued in 2011 in a set of 6 self-adhesive stamps dedicated to textile..the stamp itself has some interesting engraved lines (the black ones you can actually see...)

thanks a lot to Katja for such a great card!

Stockholm, Sweden

A very nice card coming from Stockholm.

As the sender says, the card shows a Swedish ship named Götheborg. This is a sailing replica of the Swedish East Indiaman from 18th Century. The original had sunk around 200 years ago.

A 2010 stamp from a set of two showing Queen Silvia (the other stamp in the set of course, shows King Carl XVI Gustaf)

Stockholm, Sweden

My last card for today is a very nice panoramic one of Stockholm...I tried to put this at a bigger size so you can actually get an idea of the size of the card...plus it gives a nicer overall view of it...

the back of the card gives just one sentence...High above the Old Town and the Royal Palace...
And speaking of Royal Palace, one of the latest newsworthy events was the marriage of the Swedish Princess Victoria....who chose an ordinary guy to be the man by her side for the rest of her life...no prince, no duke, no king...but just an ordinary guy who was her fitness trainer..by many supported, by many condemned...her dad was surely not the happiest with the choice...understandable...but the wedding goes with all the Royal ceremonies...huge amounts of money spent...and of course, whether seen or not, all that is paid by the ordinary people....
As for the princess's choice...if it is really love we are talking about, then I admire this...but the big problem with the people who are rich and famous is that you can never know why people really love you or why they really want to be your friends if you are filthy rich...and we are living in a world of such hypocrisy...as for me, im not even close to being rich..so I guess I have nothing to worry about....or maybe I do?

thanks for following...hopefully i wont take again this long until the next posting, when there arent really some particular reasons for it....enjoy your rest of the weekend...there is a day off in Wimbledon...i can finally get my nerves back together :)

Stockholm, Sweden

I LOVE this card coz its simply HUGE and has such a great view over Stockholm! And frankly, i actually dont have many Swedish cards, so its a great part of my collection...I actually wonder why there arent so many Swedish or Norwegian or Icelandic participants on the forum....

I really love these islands in the middle of the centre of the town...ok, maybe its not the centre, but i like it how it looks...islands, connections, water, in just one city...fun :)
Ill write something from whats on the back of the card....
The island on the left is called Kastellholmen and the castle there dates back in 1667..the island below this one is called Skeppsholmen, and this one used to be a location of several military buildings, while nowadays, several museums are located there, like the Museum of Modern Art and the East Asian Museum, and also the Stockholm Jazz Festival Events is located here.
Then, along the water, on the left side, you have the National Musuem, Stockholm's best Hotel (Strand Hotel - 1874), and the Drama Theatre.
The big park in the middle is called the King's Garden (1430).  The big square building on right is the Royal Palace and beside it is the Old City (13th century).

I hope you got the main idea :)

As for the stamps, from what i could find, they belong to a series of stamps called "Together" issued in 2009, regarding the St. Valentines...their primary theme is Holy Days and Celebrations (Personal Greetings)....
What i like about them is that they are self-adhesive ...

Stockholm, Sweden

The last card for today...well, you've probably seen it already, it was among those older cards...but since i had had no update from Sweden for a while, and I have no Swedish cards in stock right now...I pulled forward this one..so i cant somewhat decrease the cards waiting on hold there...sometimes i think ill never manage to update them all...I just hope one day I wont get fed up and just delete all the not-updated cards :)

This card was sent to me by my former pen-friend Chrisitna Dulley from Sweden...she sent me this card during a weekend she had spent there...
Im not sure what exactly these card shows...there is no description on the back, so you can just make wild guesses in case you are familiar with Stockholm....

oh, btw...I got a new keyboard yesterday...the keys still feel weird under my fingers, but i guess it takes time...yesterday was one chaotic day...all rushed...all in running...thank God tomorrow is a day off...and Friday as well....I should just have German, but the teacher is absent this week....i even rushed to get to class yesterday, just to find out she couldnt come...so I just wasted an hour and a half in nothing, when i could have stayed at home and do some useful work...but well...at this point i feel much more relaxed...hope ill manage all things on time, so i can feel more relaxed next week, instead of having to do all at the last minute...keep your fingers crossed!