I’m in Stockholm at the moment, and I’ve been loving it!  It is such an amazing city that I knew so little about before coming over.  We flew into the city at 7am and starting to look for things to do.  After checking into the hotel we headed out to see if there was anything open.  The city wakes up a bit later than we do in the US, so we spent the first few hours sipping lattes and staring at our map.  We stuck close to our hotel at first, exploring the Norrmalm area.  Drottning street has a lot of great large shops which seem to open around 11am.  We went to SOUK first, which is a great combination of shops all in one.  They have Topshop,Topman,Oasis,Jane Norman, and Beyond Retro all under one roof.  It’s like a mini UK shopping complex.

Then we headed over to PUB (Paul U Bergstroms), which so far is my favorite shop.  It’s a great multi-floor department store which has amazing cute small designers featured throughout.  We also had a fantastic lunch in the cafe.  They have really cute antique furniture too, which is upholstered with vintage men’s button-up shirts.

Here is the view from the cafe, it overlooks the square that has a fruit/vegetable/flower market.

Drinking lattes with Laura at PUB.

Flowers at the flower market, all the tulips are sooo pretty.  Then we hopped on the subway system (which is a little pricey if you buy by the trip) from the Central stop to Medborgarplatsen.  We headed over to the SoFo area (south of Folkungagatan), which is located in the eastern side of Sodermalm.  The best streets to walk down are Asogatan, Bondeg, Skanegatan, Nytogsgatan,and Renstiernas Gata.  It’s a really cute area with a great mix of women’s and men’s clothing, home goods, and great places to grab a latte and some blueberry pie.

Some of the best shops to check out are:

Beyond Retro (for second hand clothes) 144 Asogatan, Repris (second hand) 48 Bondegatan

Tjallamalia 46 Bondegatan

Sara Clausin (high end small designers, like Paul & Joe) 50 Bondegatan.

Then we went to Judits (2nd hand) 75 Hornsgatan,

Grandpa (really cute men’s and women’s clothing 21 Sodermannagatan.

We stopped to get a snack at 7-knop, which was super cute.

A cute cafe in SoFo.