Northern City Nights

The New York Times recently ran two articles in their Travel section highlighting two cities in European countries that I consider to be in the Far North.

Most go there places. In summer of course!

Stockholm in Sweden  see 36 Hours in Stockholm

"STOCKHOLMERS revel in the long days of summer when the sun rises as early as 3:30 a.m. and doesn’t set until after 10 p.m. Many locals escape to their country houses, but those who remain in the city spend as much time as possible outdoors — an easy feat since water and parkland make up almost two-thirds of Stockholm."

And in St Petersburg in Russia see White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 

"In St. Petersburg, the grand city of the czars, they call them the “White Nights”: those 80 or so evenings, running from May to the end of July, when the city emerges from long months of cold and darkness and celebrates the brief return of nearly round-the-clock daylight."