Stockholm is great - to look across the harbour at the fine waterfront is to see one of the most beautiful cityscapes in the world. That the water is clean enough to drink (a bit salty, mind, but not full sea salty) doesn't hurt. That it's on the Baltic, and behind the archipelago, means that there's almost no tide, and pretty well no chance of a storm getting that far up (the Vasa's wreck excepted). All of which means the buildings don't have to be built to resist maritime weather.
(If I recall correctly, the Vasa was launched, got across the harbour, got part way back, sank, was raised, and finally made it back to roughly where it was launched some centuries later. Not much of a voyage.)
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Date: 2008-07-24 01:56 pm (UTC)(If I recall correctly, the Vasa was launched, got across the harbour, got part way back, sank, was raised, and finally made it back to roughly where it was launched some centuries later. Not much of a voyage.)
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