We arrived in Stockholm, Sweden after our 45 minute flight from Helsinki, Finland. The first thing we did was to find a restaurant and eat lunch. I rarely ever start a post from a new country with lunch, but this time I will do just that. It just happened to be lunch time when we arrived in Stockholm. We bussed to Old Town and walked several winding blocks to arrive at Magnus Ladulas Restaurant which you can see in the first photo. The street looked like others in this area. This restaurant opened in 1970 so it was not an ancient eatery. But as we went in, the inside did not reflect the outside of the restaurant.

You can see in the second photo that winding our way to our dining table through six-feet walls was unexpected. You can see Vicky, Nora, and Pete eating lunch in the third photo. Our local guide showed up during lunch and I asked about this place. She said that it was a Royal Stables in the 1190’s. So here we were eating in a horse stables and probably right in the horse stalls. Now that was unexpected and put me on guard during our time in Stockholm. Be ready for thousands of years of history.

Lunch at Magnus Ladulas was very good. We started with a fresh green salad and fresh baked bread, in the photo below.

Our main plate, last photo, was chicken with mushrooms, vegetables, sweet potato, lingonberries, and garlic yogurt as a dip. It was quite good and I was especially impressed with the garlic yogurt dip. I dipped my chicken and potato into it and it was extremely tasty.

So Welcome to Stockholm and Welcome to Sweden.