{"id":5217,"date":"2014-07-03T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2014-07-03T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:11:56","slug":"dresses_and_thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/dresses_and_thrones\/","title":{"rendered":"Dresses and thrones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our summer vacation started on Tuesday. We’ve been to the movies to see Alfons<\/i>, gone shopping for underpants for Adrian and inline skates for Ingrid. Today we went to Old Town to visit the Royal Armoury and the Royal Coin Cabinet.<\/p>\n

Old Town is a sight in and of itself. It may feel over-touristy and “been there, done that” to me but it was pretty interesting for the kids. We pass through one edge of it on our way to our Estonian playgroup every other Sunday but haven’t really visited the rest of it. “Oh look, an alleyway! Can we go inside?” and lots of fun little shop windows and the royal castle and all.<\/p>\n

Ingrid was just the right age for a visit to the Royal Armoury, with all the dresses and swords and suits of armour (and for horses, too!) – and especially the child-sized versions. She liked the stories of kings dying in battle and being shot to death at masquerade balls, and royal weddings, and so on. We also talked about how modern-day princesses might live, and that it’s not quite like in the fairy tales any more.<\/p>\n

There’s also a dress-up area for the kids which both Ingrid and Adrian enjoyed. Ingrid was a warrior princess, so Adrian wanted to be one, too.<\/p>\n

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I did not dress up but I did try out the replica Iron Throne that they had in the lobby. The current temporary exhibition is titled Maktspel<\/i> (Power game) and explores themes of power, war and love in 16th century Europe in fact and fiction. On display are costumes from A Game of Thrones<\/i> and two movies about Queen Elizabeth I, as well as actual clothing and armour that belonged to Sweden’s king Eric XIV who was contemporary with Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

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