Stockholms old town charmes you with little alleys, narrow streets, beautiful squares, lots of antique stores, cafés and reaturants. Situated mainly on the island Stadsholem the city dates back to the 13th century and is one of the largest and best preserved medieval city centers in Europe. Just grab a coffee and wander the cobblestone streets…
And right around the corner there is the baroque royal palace: Kungliga slottet (coming soon..)
Where to spend a sunny day better than at (Kungliga) Djurgården – another one of the central Stockholm islands and an especially pretty one. A National City park hosting an amusementpark (Gröna Lund), stunning historic houses and theaters, museums, yacht harbours, Waldemannsudde, but also forests and meadows. A calm oasis to have fun, lie at the water, take long walks with a coffee & waffle break or enjoy all the different museums – only a short walk from city center or a ride on the tram or ferry away.
Rosendals Trädgård – I think I spent several hours at this garden/shop/café in the middle of Djurgården called “The Rose Valley”. Such a beautiful place!
Rosendal’s Garden is an open garden, with the main purpose of presenting biodynamic (organic) garden cultivation to the general public.[…]
In the café, we serve coffee and tea, sandwiches, pastries, and light lunch dishes, with nothing but organically grown ingredients. All bread, pies, buns, cookies and cakes come from our own Bakery, boasting a wood-fired stone oven built in 1998.
The biodynamic principles include a constant focus on quality. Besides environmental considerations in all gardening work, all produce used in our food processing is selected with utmost care. The garden crops are served at our tables, and leftovers go back to the compost heap, providing first-rate soil for next year’s growth. Visitors can actually feel the continuity of a connected whole. (Rosendals Garden)
With a belly full of coffee, soup and cake it´s time to take another walk around the island.
Until I reached Waldemannsudde, the former mansion of Prins Eugen which was converted to a museum after his death.
That morning the sun illuminating my light airbnb apartement woke me up to blue skies and spring! Perfect day to take another route to Gamla Stan – right around the corner from my place there was Fjällgatan. Offering the most beautiful views of Gamla Stan, Skeppsholmen, Kastellholmen and Djurgården, cute little wooden houses from the 1700s with little parks in between.
But in former times the steps up to Galgberget (the oldest name of Fjällgatan) were the last ones “unfortunate people” took, they probably didn´t enjoy the view of Stockholm City that much! Until the seventeenth century, when the city expaned, one had found the large gallows at the very top.
