Sweden (4) — the Royal Palace @ Stockholm
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today I am showing you around somebody’s house. This house is located in the old town of Stockholm, near a large body of waters (if you live here, you can go out boating or jetski anytime ha). There is an army of security guards like this to walk around to threaten the thieves.
In addition, the front door is well armed, so we are safe.
The backdoor isn’t bad either
This is the backyard. It has fountains and good views.
This house has 600+ rooms. The main entrance to the rooms looks like this, dome ceiling and renaissance sculptures.
Then you get inside. The wide stairs in the room are the symbol of majesty. Especially, you are able to see the mable sculpture like this when you walk down, reminding you of your lovers?! 😀 This probably is my favorite thing in this house.
After some stairs, you arrived at this guest or guest waiting room. It creates very good afternoon tea atmosphere? There is a piano waiting in the corner to help you kill your time when you are waiting.
I guess this one is the ball room, for large parties; probably the pajama party and hip hop music cannot work here though.
These chandeliers and the ceilings, reminding me of Michelangelo
Only people like this fit the theme. The person-size oil painting is a typical decoration for the rooms.
The house has any types of rooms you can imagine, bath rooms, reading rooms, children’s room, formal dining … and last but not least, is this meditation room, the room you practice your religion, a.k.a. the church.
This house of course is very expensive and not affordable, but I hope you get some idea to design your house at least. By the way, this house is called “the Royal Palace”, where the King’s Sweden lives 🙂 It is not that different from everybody’s house from some point of view ha.
Palace is a very popular tourist destination in Europe. I feel pretty bored sometime when I visited those places but it seems to cannot escape from them as they are typically very famous. This time, when I walked around this house, I had a few moments to imagine what I would be thinking and doing if I lived here. This made my tour much more interesting (in general, anything actively engaging your brain tends to be interesting to you).
When I was visiting, it was 6/6, the National Day for Sweden, the admission is free, but the line is long. It takes about half a day to visit this place. One of the good things about traveling is to make you feel the news is real and close. A few months ago, there was this news that some thieves stealed a jewelry on the crown of the Sweden’s king, and fled via a jet boat. I felt the news is pretty interesting: “how possible? I was just visiting their Jewelry collection; the security is very thorough” “oh, they possibly fled from this dock, the water is well connected, but no camera can be installed and thus it is hard to track where they go?” Similarly, half a year ago, I heard the big island @ Hawaii had some active volcano activities, I was just visited there lately, so I immediately texted my airbnb host to see what’s going on with him and his beautiful place …