Archive for the ‘Castles’ Category

A December roadtrip took us to Skokloster, Carl Gustaf Wrangel’s baroque styled castle, built between 1654-1676 in Sweden’s Age of Greatness, on the shores of Lake Mälaren. Designed by architect Nicodemus Tessin the elder, who also designed Drottningholm Palace - a world heritage site.

We arrived to the castle in the dark afternoon and unfortunately I [...]

Edinburgh is hot on London’s heels for the crown of the most popular UK city amongst tourists. In many ways, it offers a greater, more traditional experience than the English capital, which makes it no wonder that more than 13 million tourists visit the Scottish capital every year.
Hotels like the George hotel Edinburgh has to [...]

There has been a heatwave around Europe and so also in Stockholm. An Indian summer. Today was the last day the say, so we took a roadtrip to Ulriksdals Palace in Solna, Stockholm.

I succeeded to catch a double bee in one photo: a bumblebee and an ordinary bee in the same flower getting themselves some [...]