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An international idea celebrated in 50 countries, Restaurant Day is a food carnival created by food-loving people setting up one-day restaurants. The idea of the day is to have fun, share new food experiences and meet others in our community. People offer their family cuisine, favorite recipes, desserts or whatever in their backyard or a park.  Prices are very inexpensive.

Check the maps to see if there is one in your city.

Date: Sunday, August 17
http://www.restaurantday.org/

Tags: carnival, city, countries, cuisine, dessert, family, food, map, people, recipe, Restaurant

Quality Nacka Vaermdovaegen 84 , (Tel: 46 8506 16000)  Stockholm SE- 1200, was the hotel for the last night of the tour. It was not near downtown but was slick and modern (double rain shower) and most importantly had great electronic amenities.

We usually spend the first few minutes in our hotel room scoping out the outlets to plug in phones, laptops, back up drives, USB battery back up, audio pod caster,etc. This hotel had the best power station including: USB input and charger,  HDMI input, VGA input, audio/PC/ video inputs as well as two power outlets.

Dinner was a buffet with some highlights:  fabulous mango & shrimp salad (Stan had as main course!),  tomato and cucumber salad, pork in a mushroom and pepper sauce, sauteed potatoes, rice, broccoli and cauliflower. Cherry cheesecake sweetly ended our meal and our trip.

Tags: audio, charger, HDMI, input, PC, Stockholm, Sweden, USB, VGA, video

Queen Christina of Sweden cared about the poor people in her kingdom. She decreed that they should be allowed to fish for supper right downtown in Stockholm. So between the Royal Palace and the Opera House, there is clean water, where, to this day, they can fish for salmon, pike, perch and herring.

Tags: clean water, fish, herring, kingdom, Opera house, perch, pike, Queen Christina, Royal Palace, salmon, Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden has the oldest central bank in the world. It is twenty years older than the Bank of England. The bank building is located in Stockholm.

Tags: bank, Bank of England, Stockholm, Sweden