Today's activities - Walk to Ulriksdal Slott (Ulriksdal Palace) and along the way, to stop by at Kungsträdgården to see the cherry blossom trees.
The cherry blossoms are out and it is time to pay them a visit! This means that it is spring! Last year, I went there on 1 May 2018 and this year is 8 days earlier but only half of the trees have bloomed. They are the same flowers but they are still as pretty as ever. Kungsträdgården was crowded. The flowers bloom for 10 days only and wither as soon as the weather gets warmer.
You can read on how the trees are planted in Stockholm City - by using biochar that are made from twigs and branches.
The walk continues from Kungsträdgården to Ulriksdals Slott (Ulriksdal's Palace) which does not fit my definition of a palace. It looks like a mansion to me. As the days are longer now, it was still bright when we arrived at 7pm. On the way to the palace, we took a shortcut and scrambled up some rocks.
Ta-da, the palace that looks like a mansion to me. It reminded me of Åkeshov Slott which I was there a week back to attend a course.
Ulriksdal Palace is a royal palace situated on the banks of the Edsviken in the Royal National City Park in Solna Municipality, 6 km north of Stockholm. It was originally called Jakobsdal for its owner Jacob De la Gardie, who had it built by architect Hans Jacob Kristler in 1643–1645 as a country retreat. He later passed on to his son, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, from whom it was purchased in 1669 by Queen Hedvig Eleonora of Sweden. The present design is mainly the work of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and dates from the late 17th century. Source from Wikipedia.
It was getting colder now. So, we hurried up to the train station before it got dark by 8.15pm. In total, we did a 21.5km walk.
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