Vaxholm, Sweden

... us a long time to get going - it was almost twelve o´clock when we took a ferry for an hour's sailing to Vaxholm, gatway to the Swedish archipelago - a collection of several thousand islands, some of which serve as holiday getaways for Swedes. Vaxholm ...

The fortress. Was used to protect one of the main waterways into Stockholm. There were other forts built into the archipelago as well.