That's a bit unfair as a title. It was only wet on the first day!
The first weekend in June, my wife and I spent a long weekend with our friend Efva visiting her home town, Vaxholm (also called Waxholm) on an island in Stockholm's northern archipelago. The day we arrived (to the left here) it was a rainy, wet and very off-season town that met us, but the weather improved progressively. (Much as it is doing now, today, out of my window.)
On the Friday we spent time visitng Vaxholmen Citadel, once the lock on the sea approaches to Stockholm. An imposing fortress built and rebuilt over about 400 years (In fact construction was still in progress. I think they're still converting it for civilian use. it was only decommissioned a few years ago.) A fine museum if you are into military history.
Saturday 6th June was Swedish National Day and I have one set of pictures and a bit of film that I'm still working on. I'll post them here soon. Sunday, the sun was bright, though the wind was still chill. We took a walk around the town - very small and in places very picturesque. In the afternoon: a boat trip on the veteran steam ship Norrskär (to the right here) to an island called Grind.
We travelled home again to Gothenburg on Monday 8th, stopping off in Stockholm for a walk round Djurgården island and a visit to the Thiel Gallery - fine collection of early 20th century Scandinavian art including the largest collection of pictures by Edvard Munch I've seen outside Oslo.
Many of the pictures from Vaxholm are in this album:
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/16669/album/132800
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