I have been inside Stockholm’s City Hall several times. I was married there, had my Swedish citizenship ceremony there, and have attended a couple of dinners there. But you tend to see the same few rooms over and over.
A dear friend organised an official tour the other day and I had the best time. The building is stunning
A view from a door
A ceiling depicting the night sky
I loved this detail in an enormous, rather formal painting. Whoever painted it was familiar with dogs
Another ceiling
This wall shows the Queen of Lake Mälar (the lake you can see from the city hall) with Stockholm in her lap.
Not sure I would use this selevator
Afterwards we went to lunch at a really nice restaurant and I was tickled at this bathroom. My grandmother fought so hard to modernise her bathroom from something like this…
…and she was so proud of getting rid of her toilet chain for a modern cistern. Now this is back in fashion apparently. It felt weird to pull a chain again.
A party boat on the shore
A swimming pool in the lake. I would never swim either in the lake or this pool. Growing up in great white shark/bilharzia territory has meant I never swim in wild water, dams, ponds, rivers, or dark-coloured swimming pools. I am such a wimp.
