Fåfängan

Fåfängan is a hill at the most eastern side of Stockholm, on the border with Nacka, the neighbouring municipality. Nacka is a very hip place to live these days. And it is crowded with media people and politicians. Our current PM, Magda who you saw here on the blog last year, will be moving back there any day now after losing the election last month. There has been non-stop construction in Nacka since quite a few years. The municipality also has a long coastline and very big nature reserves. I have shown you some of it before. The areas that you can see from Fåfängan are Danviken, (old hospital), and Saltsjöqvarn, (very big mill industry a century ago), at Sickla. Panning the camera to the right you can see parts of Södermalm, Johanneshov, (with the big Globe arena), and Hammarby Sjöstad, that remodelled industrial park I showed you a couple of days ago. But, back to the hill from where I took these photos, Fåfängan. Named so by the owner Fredrik Lundin, who back in the day in 1770 built this gazebo, or lusthus, in Swedish and decided to call it Fåfängan, Vanity. There is a cafe and restaurant on the hill, open during the Summer. But people come here even when everything is closed to have a picknick and to look at the great views over the water.