Confessions of a Castleholic

Hello Sweden with a walk down memory lane  to my visit to the Royal Palace of Stockholm,  or Kungliga Slottet , anno 2005.

Well, on two continents... Let's play favourites again - this time with cities. Here are the five I like best for various reasons which I'll try to explain a little. Obviously, I can only speak of those cities I have visited yet. So if any are missing that you think everyone should see, leave me a comment below. My bucket list may already be more than 100 places long but can it ever be long enough? Sydney, Australia Where shall I begin? While some places were hard to pick, Sydney was a very obvious choice for me. After all this is the city where I spent what I still consider the time of my life. After school I lived and travelled in Australia for a year with Sydney being my base. But it wasn't just that it was the best and most carefree time of my life: Over the year, I simply fell in love with the city, its style, art and culture and how beautifully it is situated.   Hamburg, Germany If you are a long-time reader of Confessions of a Castleholic, you will al...

Sorry, I've been a bit MIA lately but I've literally been missing in castle-seeing action in England the past week or two. For everyone still in need for inspiration, I thought - inspired by some of my recent CastleMemories - we could discover a little more of Sweden and its royal and noble sights. As we haven't done a Castleholics Anonymous in quite a while, I talked to Sofia ( who has her own blog though we'll get a little more into that a bit further down ) and out come loads of castle-seeing tips for Sweden - and the Czech Republic. I visited Sweden a bunch of times during my childhood for holidays. However, apart from the royal palace in Stockholm as well as nearby Drottningholm Slott, castles and palaces in Sweden are a bit of a blank page for me. Which other ones would you recommend for every Castleholic to see? Rosersberg Palace My own two favourite royal residences of course, Rosendal and Rosersberg. Rosendal Palace, which despite its name i...

Another walk down memory lane to my 2005 Swedish holiday and Drottningholms Slott .

Let's have a walk down memory lane to  a Swedish holiday of my teenage years and Vaxholms Fästning near Stockholm.