The morning view from my porthole. (Almost as good as the view back home.)

The parliament arches.

The old town and a phone box.

Inside the palace courtyard and the palace from the courtyard.

Changing the guards.

On the tour boat, the Swedish music option is ABBA.

The Royal canal and its toll booth.

The other side of the Saltsjön.

Gamla stan (The Old Town) and the palace.

Overlooking Skeppsholmen and the theme park.

My hotel again.

The city hall (also where they hand out Nobel prizes).

Cirkus (arena) and the Biological museum.

Riddarholmsskeppet in the Medieval Museum, plus more guard changing.

Inside the Royal palace (the rest has photography banned).

Inside the royal armouries, the carriages are in the cellar.

They also compare Erik XIV of Sweden, Elizabeth I of England and er.. King Joffery of the seven kingdoms of Westeros (Game of Thrones, as they have some of the costumes).

The ABBA museum and the Cirkus again.

The Spirt museum run by Absolut vodka.

They have an exhibition on Album art.

The Vasa sailing ship, the Swedish Mary Rose. (Sank on maiden voyage after 1300 meters.)

The Nordiska Museum

Skeppsholmen.

Kungsträdgården metro station.

Solna Centrum metro station.

Fridhemsplan Metro station.

Rådhuset

T-Centralen Metro station.

That’s Oslo visited, now where shall I go?

A last look at Norway from the train.

I was in the restaurant car when we crossed the border. I paid in Norwegian Kronor and got my change in Swedish.

So, Sweden.

The Parliament house.

A bike vandalised by knitters

A womble begging in the street.

The Royal Palace

An out door toilet.

Down by the water front.

My hotel in Stockholm. Mälardrottningen Hotel‎

And room / cabin.

The city hall and Riddarholmen Church.

Around the back of the royal palace.

Taking a photo of someone taking a photo of someone taking a photo.

The red ship will be my ferry to Helsinki.

The hotel at night.

Day 5 – Oslo

With winter approaching in Oslo, the statue decided to nick the workman’s jacket.

Oslo has a lot of electric cars.

Looking over to museum island and a pavilion in the harbour.

The Fram museum, and the Fram

Inside the Fram.

Strengthening beams to stop the ice crushing it.

Gjøa – the first ship to  navigate the northwest passage.

Inside the Norwegian Maritime Museum.

Ra II – an Egyptian style boat that was sailed across the Atlantic.

Kon-Tiki

The Viking ship museum. First Oseberg.

Tune

Gokstad

The marina, and the museum ferry. (The little beige one.)

Here it is.

The Astrup Fearnley Museum and the city hall from the ferry.

Holmenkkollen (Ski jump) and its hotel.

Looking up the lift shaft (and down).

Oslo from the top of the ski jump.

Panorama from the top of the Ski jump.

View down the ski jump and Oslo city centre again.

Behind the ski jump.

At the Munch Museum. (You’re not allowed to photograph the Scream, so hears his painting of an Alien autopsy.)

Day 3 of my trip across Scandinavia. – Copenhagen

I hope I’m mistranslating what they sell.

Though these look tasty.

First a look around Rosenborg Castle. Paintings are so 15th century. Why not have your own wax model, in a cabinet.

Rosenborg Castle throne room.

The throne is guarded by lions.

The expensive plate collection.

In the treasury below the castle. Gold toy soldiers.

1598 was a very good year.

The royal crowns.

Vor Frelsers Church and the view from the top.

The mechanism for the church clock.

Christiania. Most of the place has no photography signs.

A walk along Christianshavns Canal.

Looking across the river to the stockexchange and parliament.

The entrance to the state rooms at Chrstiansborg Palace.

The prime ministers office, and entrance door.

He was in. His car was outside with the security range rover.

My friend at the cat café.

My cabin for the night ferry from Copenhagen to Oslo.

A last look at Copenhagen as we leave.

As you get higher up the ship, it does get shinier. I’m on the bottom accommodation deck (steerage). My walls aren’t are wipe clean.

The night club.

Day 2 of my trip across Scandinavia. – Copenhagen

The town hall is guarded by elephant dragons.

The lake in Øreted Park

Peblinge Sø (lake). Formally a stream, widened as a defensive moat.

The Danish Music museum.

The university.

The parliament.

The Royal library gardens.

Changing of the guards at the Amalienborg Palace.

The Queens palace and the crown princes palace. (He was in.)

The little mermaid statue.

The tourists taking photos of the statue.

Danish ice-cream. It’s very buttery.

Hans Christian Andersen’s house.

Frederik’s Church. Also know as the Marble Church (Marmorkirken). It has the largest church dome in Scandinavia.

The Russian church.

A cabinet in the design museum. The flight is quicker these days.

The Gefion Fountain and the royal yacht waiting rooms.

Kastellet (Copenhagan Citadel).

The Danish intelligence service is based in the Citadel.

Nyboder houses. Originally for military personnel.

The National Gallery of Denmark

Rosenborg Castle in the King’s gardens.

The Round tower. Originally built as an observatory, with a spiral slope instead of stairs.

View from the top. Spoiler: In the middle of this photo you can see the ferry I’m taking tomorrow.

The tower at Christiansborg Palace, that I went up yesterday.

Day 1 of my trip across Scandinavia. – Copenhagen

First a quick stop at the Cabinn City Hotel to drop off my bags.

The out to the city.

The entrance to Christiansborg Palace – the administrative centre of Denmark.

Inside the Palace I had to cover my shoes.

First the reception room.

The Royal reference library. The doors in the corner are a lift.

The Banqueting hall.

The Great hall

The throne room, and the doors the royal family go through to get on to the balcony.

Underneath the Palace are the ruins of the previous palaces. In an emergency you need to use the ladder to get back up. Also old wooden pipes joined with lead.

A guard box, and the Palace tower.

At the top of the tower.

The royal smoking area.

The stock exchange.

The town hall.

Nyhavn (New Harbour).

The opera house and a submarine that went to Iraq in 2003 and broke down.

The naval base.

The royal yacht boarding point and another royal palace.

Some wooden seals.

Our Saviours church and the Royal Libary

Around Christiansborg Palace moat.

The Stock exchange tower is the intertwined tails or 4 dragons.

Europe’s narrowest house.

Tivoli is currently closed while they get ready for Halloween.

A cat café.