Traveling during the off-season has more benefits than drawbacks unless you are in Stockholm and it is closed for renovation. Off-season means less crowds, shorter lines, better prices, and cooler temperatures. In most places we have visited there have been a few closed sights, but we just moved on and saw it as an opportunity to save money. We adopted the ‘not meant to be’ attitude. (Did I already blog about this??) As we near the end of our trip, and we are closer to high-season than ever, we grabbed a train to Stockholm hoping to see a few of its highlights. The weather wasn’t ideal, but that didn’t deter us. Fog and mist actually make interesting pictures. (It’s hard to take a bad picture when you can hardly see the subject matter.) Well, long story short – We had a fun day in Stockholm anyway. We shopped for touristy stuff, sat in the VW rally car (right before it shipped off to race in Portugal for the weekend), discovered the coolest science fiction bookstore, enjoyed fika in Old Town, and took lots of artsy fartsy pictures.