Drottningholm - A Swedish Versailles


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July 2nd 2012
Published: July 2nd 2012
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A Cathedral that we passed on our way to find the ferry.
Today we took a day trip to the island Lovön. We were going to catch the 10am ferry but we got a little turned around on the way there and we finally arrived at the dock around 11:00. Luckily the ferry left every half hour. It takes an hour to get to the island.

On the island is one of the official Royal residences, Drottningholm. It is the Queen's Palace, Drottning actually translates to Queen. For those of you who have been to Versailles it is basically a smaller version. Interestingly Drottningholm was rebuilt in 1662 following a fire the previous December and Versailles was not started until 1664.

We walked through the Baroque style garden to the Chinese Pavillion. It was an interesting building, inside each room was a different color red, white, green, yellow. There were a number of smaller pavillion, some of which are used as private residences during the summer for people working at the Palace. After the Pavillion we went down to the cafe for lunch.

We spent the afternoon wandering through the palace, there are some beautiful rooms and wonderfully painted ceilings. We went back to the cafe for a snack of
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This was our Ferry.
crepés with strawberry jam and whipping cream while waiting for th ferry back to the mainland.

Once back on the mainland we walked across a famous bridge back to our little island Skeppsholmen. The bridge that connects Skeppsholmen to the mainland was the first wrought iron bridge in Sweden. We wandered around our little island. There is not a lot to see on our island at one end if you look across the water you can see Tivoli Gröna Lund, an amusement park. It looked interesting. We finished our walk around the island and then went back to Max for hamburgers! We ate our dinner outside and then sat in the park people watching for a bit.

Tomorrow we have almost a full day here and we leave in the evening for Berlin!


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The view on the way to Drottningholm.
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It looks very similar to our Mallard.
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Our first view of the Palace.
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The gate leading into the Baroque style garden.
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Looking back at the palace from the garden.
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The outside of the Chinese Pavilion.
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The Red room.
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The Green room.
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In one of the small chinese houses surrounding the pavilion was a dining room. This was a special dining room because it allowed royalty to dine without servants. The floor could be filed away and the table lowered into the kitchen, there it would be set and all of the dishes laid out before hoisting it up to the royal family ready for dinner!
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The inside foyer.
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I would love to have a library like this in my house!
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They had a very brilliant blue ceiling!
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The entrance to MAX. They had two sets of orange doors and when you were between them it was like being in an orange bubble.
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Sydony ordering her meal.


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