Neil Hopcroft

Beyond Rindö Redoubt I was looking for Fredriksborg Ruin, an abandoned castle, but ended up missing the road and heading off into the countryside – eventually I figured out I’d gone too far along the main road and headed back to find the track to the ruin. There were a number of other people there taking photographs.

In the swamps outside Vaxholm is Bogesunds Slott, a fortified manor.

I dropped A. off at the airport and popped in to Nynäs Slott on the way home.

I took A. to Ulriksdals slott.

We popped in to Tullgarns Slott for lunch on the way to the airport – it is worthy of a longer visit sometime.

At the end of the road is Rosendals Slott itself.

On the island of Djurgården, over the water from Strandvägen, is the road leading to Rosendals Slott.

Taking the narrow guage railway from Mörby, Näsby Park looked like an interesting place to visit. Its not. The Näsby Slott, although rebuilt after its fire in 1897 now houses a conference centre and has the air of somewhere with attack dogs roaming the grounds on weekends. So I didn’t explore inside the razor wire fence.

At the bottom of the garden of Drottningholm Slott is a Chinese pavillion (not a very exciting page at the time of writing, hopefully it’ll get filled out a little over time).

Following the road across the bridge from Nockeby over the small island of Kärsön you get an impressive view across the water to Drottningholm Slott, the official residence of the Swedish royal family. Indeed, as I was there a pair of Canadian tourists were nearly run over by a very enthusiastic chap in an understated but clearly extremely […]