Stockholm and Stieg

What kind of weather would you expect in Stockholm?  According to Weather Channel, 73 degrees.  So we hit it just right and got the high 80's.  In spite of that, we hit the streets for the Stieg Larsson tour.  But first, a visit to City Hall where the Nobel Prize banquet is presented each year.

The banquet hall:

Details from the mezzanine:

OK, on to Stieg.  As we started out, we paused in front of Larsson's favorite coffee shop (also seen in the films as Blomkvist's favorite) for a bio on the author from our guide.  Now we're going to talk here as though these characters lived...but really, these are the locations used in the movies.

As we began our walk around the Sodermalm area, one old boy in the group said to the guide "so who was this Larsson guy?"  Better question:  what the heck was the old boy doing on that particular tour?  The guide told him that Larsson wrote crime novels.  "Lime novels?"  Time to change the hearing aid battery, pops.

Salander's first apartment was too far away to walk to, but the top floor here is the 21-room apartment she later purchased with the purloined cash.  It's on Fiskargatan, you'll remember.

Here's the entrance to the offices of Millenium magazine, at Gotgatan 11:

Mikael's apartment on the top floor of Bellmansgatan 1:

And his view over Gamla Stan (it means old town):

Most important!  THE 7-Eleven where Lisbeth stopped to buy her Billy's Pan Pizza:

Finally, a beautiful sail-away from Stockholm, heading for Helsinki, Finland: