The south-west tip of Södermalm sits right on the water, and on a Sunday it has a flea market to go with the view. Under three kilometres: the riverside boardwalk, the green island across the channel, the quiet sound, and a brick church on the hill that you can see from half the city.
Start at Hornstull and drop to Hornstulls Strand, the boardwalk along the river. On Sunday the loppis — the flea market — strings out along it: bric-a-brac, old clothes, food wagons, the cheerful clutter of other people's attics. Other days it's a calmer waterside with cafés, and the market's absence is no great loss. Across the channel is Långholmen, the green former prison island; take the view, or cross if the day's long.
West to Pålsundet, the narrow sound full of moored boats, then up to Högalidskyrkan — Ivar Tengbom's twin-towered brick church, built 1916 to 1923 on the hill, a landmark from the water for miles. Climb to it, look back down the channel, and drop to Hornstull for the line home.
