Tre slott - three castles

Gurvan ordon - tre slott (på mongoliska).

Three castles - two of them royal and

one not. That's the name of a simple

album I made for the parents of a friend.

They came to Europe for the first time

from Mongolia and were thrilled with Sweden!

First castle: Taxinge Slott ("kakslottet") - 

a beautiful (not royal) building that nowadays

is used as a cafeteria and can be rent for big

parties or weddings. Parents also wanted to

pose for a picture!

All pages are covered with American Crafts

papers from different collections, some of them

years old. I had double of some of them. 

At Taxinge there's a very special cafeteria 

with lots of choices; buns, cakes, tarts, bisquits 

etc. Of course we tried a few of them and 

weather was fine so we sat outside in the 

garden taking our tea and coffee!

After that we took a walk; there's an English 

garden, a French garden and an Italian garden! 

And we wet our feet in the lake but it was too 

chilly for taking a swim I can tell you! 

The parents liked being photographed! 

Next: the royal castle of Gripsholm Slott in the 

nearby small city of Mariefred. This castle was 

made with a lot of bricks and once there was a 

prision in the dungeouns. There's a big garden 

and lots of flowers around the castle.

Under some of the pictures there are small tags 

with some information about the castles in 

Mongolian language. I don't know the language, 

friend on the middle picture 

down on the right page helped me.

Then we headed towards Stockholm but took off 

before getting all the way to the city, waited for 

the car-ferry and went for a short visit to the 

royal castle of Drottningholm. That has been the

 home of the Swedish royal family since 1981.

King and Queen still live there, in the wing we 

see on our right side. All the rest of the palace 

is open for visitors.

Last picure down on the right has a flap and 

on the back of the flap is the picture you see 

down under. The cardstock is decorated with 

some washitape in a matching light blue colour. 

That's it folks! Thanks for watching!

I heard friends parent are happy with 

the album and takes it out to show their

relatives and visitors in Mongolia!!

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La Vikinga