Stockholm Pocket Precincts: A Pocket Guide to the City's Best Cultural Hangouts, Shops, Bars and Eateries

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Set across 14 islands, Stockholm is a city of immense beauty, surrounded by waterways and inlets that define its nautical history and sleek style. It is a diverse city that focuses on sustainability and seasonality, from its architecture to its food. Enjoy your fika (coffee and food break) at one of the many cafes that champions local produce; visit stores that inspire with creative spaces that feature Scandinavian style; and get outdoors in one of the city's many green spaces, or go indoors to museums that host enviable collections. Stockholm Pocket Precincts is your insider guide to all the best places to eat, drink, shop and explore in the city. As well as detailed reviews and maps for major attractions, hidden gems and local favourites, the guide has a selection of field trips that encourages you to venture outside the city to the Stockholm Archipelago, Drottningholm Palace and the popular university city of Uppsala. Slip this guide into your pocket and head off on an adventure, experiencing the coolest places in Stockholm and surrounds, like a local.

Becky Ohlsen first visited Stockholm as a toddler, on a trip to meet her maternal grandparents. Later, as a teen, she mastered enough of the language and geography to make an important daily pilgrimage to the local snack kiosk for chocolate. Becky will still go out of her way for a bar of Marabou mjoelk choklad (milk chocolate), but several periods of living in Stockholm over the years have expanded her tastes and interests. These days, she never misses a chance to revisit her favourite paintings at the Modern Art museum, tuck into a bowl of fish stew in the basement of Hoetorgshallen food court, stop for a fika (coffee break) in an old-fashioned cafe, play some pinball in an underground billiards hall, or walk along the city's many bridges and canals. Becky has researched and written about Stockholm for Lonely Planet since 2004; she has written about family travel in Sweden for the Independent, and landscape as a character in Swedish literature for The Bear Deluxe. She also writes about hiking and camping in the Pacific North-west. When she's not travelling for work, Becky rides motorcycles with the Sang-Froid Riding Club in Portland, Oregon.