Stockholm Sweden

 In early May I went on an adventure to Stockholm and Copenhagen. Below are a very abbreviated selection of the photos I took in Stockholm that I thought maybe of interest to my readers. (a post on Copenhagen Denmark to follow)

Stockholm is a lovely city and very easy to walk around. Lots of wonderful buildings and streets and very very different from my native Sydney. I stayed in a 400 year old building now working as a small hotel of seven rooms. Despite the four flights of narrow circular stairs and a floor that had a five degree slope it was really nice and I thoroughly enjoyed it, right in the middle of the old town. 

From the War Museum

Diorama of a typical Swedish army of the 1600's when they fought their wars as a great power along with a larger example of the soldiers

another photo of the diorama

Typical canon

Not all the uniforms were static displays, they had setup these 1:1 scenes which were great to see.

Another larger example using Charles XII's cavalry. Beating the Russians and the Poles.

Canon for the winter on a sled. I had never seen this before.

A display of the light troops in the Swedish Napoleonic army.

Example uniform from 1905 with a tricorn hat!!! Inspired by Charles XII's army. Great for those of you who want to play a 20th century army but miss the 30 years war 🤣

The Swedish army maintained a set of models of all the large equipment they issued to their troops. I think that this must of been common as the Danes did it as well. Much of the Swedish models have been kept.

Artillery and limbers

More artillery and various wagons

Uniform 1765 pattern of the Solderlandman regiment

The Vasa Museum
The Vasa sank 15 minutes into its maiden voyage. It was found and raised in 1967 and placed into a purpose built museum. Fantastic to see all the detail and amazing that it is still there after the time spent under water.

Model of the Vasa

The Vasa in all its glory. A wonderful ship and absolutely amazing how much is left considering the time it spent on the bottom of the harbour.

The National Museum

Bringing home the body of King Karl XII of Sweden after his abortive attempt to conquer Norway. The uniforms are accurate but the scene draws heavily on General Armfeldst disastrous retreat across the Jamtland mountains

Proof that the Swedes can have a laugh. A modern imagination of the same scene, the "Levitation of Charles the XII" This was hanging in the same museum. 😂

Anyway, I had a great time and there is lots to see and I have not troubled you with the other 100's of photos that I took - although there is one last treat. Hopefully this works as I have never put in a video before.

Just randomly when I was in Stockholm the King and Queen of Norway visited and there was a Royal procession which was great for me as I had never seen anything like it before.