Sweden day 3 - Stockholm City Hall and Drottningholm Palace

Today's one of best days we have had weatherwise - 20 degrees plus and not a cloud in the sky. On today's list - The City Hall and the Summer Palace at Drottningholm, a 45 minute boat ride from City Hall -Oh! and we must find a liquor store! Like Norway wine can only be bought at a Govenment monopoly store - here they are called "Systembolaget" - go figure. The nearest one looks as if it may at one time have been a bank. We go in but, instead of going to the shelves and picking your chosen libation, here they display all the available selection in locked glass display cabinets (just like The Crown Jewels), then you take a number, tell the clerk what you want, then he disappears into the back of the store and reappears with your bottle! Strange, is it not!.
Well, having been mightily impressed with the Oslo City Hall, we were prepared for a let-down. Happily that was not the case. Stockholm's City Hall is every bit as impressive, if not even moreso.
Afterward we board the steamer that takes up Lake Malarme to the Drottningholm Palace that is now The Swedish Royal Family's full-time Residence. Sweden's Versailles it's called and (externally) it is.
By 4:00 pm we are ready to call it day - We've been on the road now 19 days and we are beginning to feel the need to slow down a bit - so back to Hostel Castanea for happy hour and supper, do the blog posting, read a bit, then crash!