The Roslagen, Archipelago, Uppland and Sörmland trails.
03 Sandhamn post 1of2
Viveca Sten placed her first crime novels in Sandhamn. Stieg Larsson let Mikael Blomkvist hide out there. And Lisbeth Salander gets bored there.
is such a special place so I will divide the Sandhamn trail into two posts.
One about Sandhamn in general and then the world Viveca Sten let us follow Inspector Thomas Andreasson and the Lawyer Nora Linde solving murders in. And they might show some affection for each other .The whole island isn't bigger than you can walk it through in 35 minutes. And you have to walk
because there are no proper roads actually. Most delivery seems to be done by three wheel mopeds.
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| Sandhamn is no 3 |
I spoke with a uniformed Police and asked if real life at the Seapolice is anything like in the books and on Tv. Actually yes, there are, but without all the drama of course. He told me that he is actually in the films. Driving the police boat. His 15 seconds of fame, we both joked.
So this post will contain the village and the archipelago eye candy. Some locations that are inevitable.
Dykarbaren is a place where people eat and drink, both in real life as well as in the fiction. The bakery seems a bit famous and there were unproportionally many fikaplaces on such a small island. Värdshuset where Nora have a dinner with her kids in book three. The Strindberg café, named after Author August Strindberg, slept in the house once. If I got it right?.
what I understand is the Brandska Villa a made up house. So I avoid speculating about what house could be the right one. In the next post I pass the one in the film. But it was hard to get close enough.
In the filmed version the house is less impressive. And not placed in the village or the north part of the
village as in the Novel. Viveca Sten have even marked the Novel version on her own public murder map.
In the films the house is south of the village and by the sea. Which is the house in the photo section behind all the trees.
In the TV films the little village seems like a confusing labyrinth of houses. And it really is. It is a labyrinth with some cul de sac’s.
The boat ride took about an hour from the Island of Värmdön's harbor Stavsnäs, which you reach by bus (bridges).passing the Djurö bridge that appears in an episode of Beck.
And you can tell you are at the edge of the Archipelago. The Baltics are opening up from the view of Trouville beach. More about that beach in the next Roslagen post.
But the area around an island is also a part of “place”. So you notice reading the books and visit the areas. Sandhamn is like a hub for that area.
The Royal Sailing Club KSSS’s big building is a notable and rather large building, where everything around is picturesque eye candy.
Can’t help to compare it a bit with Kurt Wallander’s Ystad and Sandskogen. But in a smaller scale.
How to get there? Boat.
Then on the island you walk or rent a bicycle.
Viveca Sten writes a lot about that in the novels.
Sandhamn is no 3 on the map.
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| Safety first |
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| The woods where playing kids find a skeleton |
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| A bit of drama did occur on the ice here |
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| Have a Swedish fika here |
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| Or watch the old couple argue before one of them dies. |
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| The preppy KSSS that is featured in the second novel |
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| To Trouville beach |
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| Trouville beach |
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| The vehicles |
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| The Harbor |
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| Where the Archipelago ends |
