Appelviken

Today was sunny and not too cold so it was the perfect day to explore my neighborhood. For those who like maps, here's a map of Stockholm and the surrounding area:

Here's a blowup of the part boxed off in the last map. Stockholm central station is circled in blue. My neighborhood is marked with a red X and where I work is marked with a green X. (Sorry the maps are so small!)

It usually takes me about 30-45 minutes to get from home to work, depending on how well the connections go - and I usually walk part of it rather than taking the bus or trolley. I take a trolley (or walk 15-20 min), the metro/tunnelbana, and a bus (or walk 15-20 min). The public transportation here is very good but there's no direct route from home to work. So, it would probably take about the same amount of time biking a more direct path - but I'm not going to get a bike until the spring.

I live in a basement apartment in a little neighborhood called Appelviken (literal translation = apple bay). This is my street. I'm in one of the many red wooden houses. Most of the houses have fruit trees (presumably apple trees? I'll let you know in the spring!) in their back yards.

I'm less than a five minute walk to the water. Here's another picture I took today.
Here's one of the many hiking trails along the water.

Here's one of the bridges connecting my island to one of the neighboring islands. I have no idea where I was when I took this so I don't know exactly which island it leads to.

I've done so much walking in the past two days! I wandered around for over 3 hours today and about 5 hours yesterday. I won't be able to move tomorrow! I'll post some of the pictures I took yesterday later this week.