Stockholm Cruise Blog

A message to cruise passengers, both experienced and aspiring: Do not despair.

Yes, it is true that, like airborne geese, cruise ships are charting courses to southerly climes, fleeing Stockholm and leaving Sweden’s capital city in their wake. It’s a pity, really, because the ships are departing at what just may be Sweden’s most beautiful season — fall, and not far behind it, winter.

In Stockholm this month, the September air is as crisp as Wasa bread; plump apples dangle from the trees as Rosendals Trådgård. The sun, however, ends its holiday in the Northern Hemisphere and begins to sojourn south (or so the illusion fools us into thinking). Soon, the days will become shorter, and, yes, the cold weather will come.

But alas the weather will not be cold enough to chill the spirit . In fact, winter can be equally as charming as summer, and some of my best days in Stockholm have been during the winter.

You can walk on a lake. The photo above, believe it or not, was taken on Lake Malaren as I walked on it one day last March.

In the city center, skate if you wish.

That boat that you boarded for Drottningholm this past summer, it’s docked for the season in ice near the City Hall.

Break the chill by having a Fika in a cozy cafe, such as KaffeKoppen in Gamla Stan.

Then head back outside to the Old Town, covered in snow.

No need to walk away from Stockholm just because the summer is ending. Say hello instead; you are always welcome here.