Sooner or later I too had to enter the world of low cost flights. November 2004, the airport of Orio al Serio Milan? Bergamo? boh! From this small provincial airport we talke off to the Swedish capital, the "Venice of the North" (but how many there are ?!?): Stockholm. The delay of about 2 hours accumulated at departure is caused by a snow storm that is raging on Scandinavia and has prevented the aircraft to get up in the air in the direction of the Po valley fog. We arrived in town at two in the morning, after about 2 hours flight and half an hour coach drive on a road full of ice (the airport is even more provincial than Milan). A taxi takes us on a beautiful boat-hostel where we had booked our accommodation and the next morning we are ready to explore the city ...

Stockholm

 

Uppsala

One morning during our stay in Sweden, after having shot and knew enough about the capital, we head towards the university town of Uppsala. This is a small town of 180,000 inhabitants, 70 km north of Stockholm, reachable in 40 minutes by train (punctuality unlike those Italians!). Uppsala is home of the oldest university in Sweden, among the oldest in Europe. The City is cut in two by Furu River which flows into an inlet of the lake Melaren, who also bathes Stockholm. Here lies the biggest scandinavian Cathedral, Domkyrkan, Protestant church in which they are found, for example, the remains of the Holy Eric (patron of Sweden) and Charles Linnaeus, naturalist which is responsible for the classification of plants still in use (binary nomenclature). On a small hill there is a castle, which would seem to many more like a military barracks This small town is worth a visit because of its ancient past.