Final day of exploring started with sharing some Fika with a feathered friend. I journaled for a bit, enjoyed a coffee and planned my last day in Stockholm.
Then I met up with Peace who TWO BOOKS out this year. Check it out!
Peace and I went for to the Nobel Prize Museum. The museum features, no surprise, information about those who are previous Nobel Prize winners. During our visit there was an exhibit on Martin Luther King Jr. in addition to the permanent exhibits.
In the gift shop they also had these buttons to support ican, Nobel Peace Prize winner from 2017. Upon receiving the award Beatrice Finn stated:
"Nuclear weapons, like chemical weapons, biological weapons, cluster munitions and land mines before them, are now illegal. Their existence is immoral. Their abolishment is in our hands.
The end is inevitable. But will that end be the end of nuclear weapons or the end of us? We must choose one.
We are a movement for rationality. For democracy. For freedom from fear.
We are campaigners from 468 organisations who are working to safeguard the future, and we are representative of the moral majority: the billions of people who choose life over death, who together will see the end of nuclear weapons."
Switching gears, after visiting the museum with Peace it was lunch time.
We decided to find something to eat at Mariatorget square, a lovely park with a massive water fountain. While I definitely enjoyed very fancy vegan food (see previous post) I’m not above grabbing a slice of fast food vegan pizza from a 7-Eleven which is what I decided to do. I didn’t end up trying it but check out the cute little ice cream shop StikkiNikki’s! The have a bunch of vegan options.
And one more bit of site-seeing! Have you ever heard of a rune stone? I hadn’t.
About the rune stone:
THE VIKING RUNESTONE EMBEDDED ON a street corner in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, is believed to be older than the city itself. Though its origin is unknown, it’s estimated to date back nearly a millennia, to the 11th century.
Officially called “Uppland Runic Inscription 53,” the Gamla stan stone is prominently located at the intersection of Prästgatan and Kåkbrinken streets, but can be hard to spot without a guide as there are no signs or plaques pointing out its significance. It’s about waist height behind the street corner post.
The stone depicts a serpent body in decorative winding loops, and an inscription that has been partially translated as “Torsten and Frögunn had the stone erected after their son.” The name of the son is sadly lost. The female name, Frögunn, is a known pagan name, which lent a clue as to the origin of the text. It’s believed the stone was brought into Gamla stan from a neighboring area to be used as construction material.
