Wooden bridge along the bay near Rackarbacken  

59.306047, 18.060365 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Boating club sign on the pier door
Year on the sign

Historical background Checkpoint picture 22 Checkpoint picture 22

Country life was borrowed by the Swedes from the Germans more than 100 yeas ago. Garden plots were allotted in Skane province to poor families under privileged conditions enabling them to grow vegetables and fruit for sale. As garden plots transformed from the labour place to the recreation area, country agglomerations appeared in Sweden like in Russia. Stockholm citizens hold garden plots under lease rights. To lease a garden plot of one hundred square meters, one should have a permanent residence in the city. Any construction is prohibited on all leased plots as a lessee obtains a plot with an already built house and a small barn for garden needs. Similar one-storey cottages in country colonies have one or two rooms with garden furniture from the nearest IKEA.

Present in routes of categories Lion-Light, Griffin, Lion-Pro

Passed by: 65/69 (94%).

By categories:

  • Griffin: 5/5 (100%)
  • Lion-Light: 27/30 (90%)
  • Lion-Pro: 33/34 (97%)