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Stockholm

Most of the Finnish people recommended me to visit Stockholm, so this Easter I had a visit from a friend from Spain and we decided to visit it with two more friends from the Erasmus. We were there on Thursday morning and we came back on Sunday morning, but it was time enough to see the most important things. We visited four of the 14 islands that Stockholm has, and we are totally in love with the city. It´s a very lively city (compared with Turku there is a big difference) with a lot of beautiful buildings, it´s bigger than I thought and I think it´s a place you can visit more than once and you´ll always see new things. There are also a lot of parks and places to have a picnic or just chill with your friends.
The only thing I don´t like about it it´s that it´s very very expensive, and also they use a different currency so it´s difficult to calculate some times how much are you paying and also I had a fee when I paid with the card.
We also did a free tour in Spanish and I have to say that there were a lot of Spanish people, I don´t know why, but I heard more Spanish than Swedish!
We slept in a hostel and it was a bit weird because the room was for 16 people, but the four of us had a really good time and we enjoyed the trip a lot.
I really recommend to visit it because it´s amazing.
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