Lill-Jansskogen: the brick stadium and the city forest
The 1912 Olympic arena, the KTH campus, and a real forest five minutes from the metro. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Stockholms Stadion
Start at the brick arena Torben Grut built for the 1912 Olympics — National Romantic, half castle, with two towers over the entrance. Still in use; walk the outside even if there's no event, and look up at the clock tower.

2. Sofiatornet (the clock tower)
The taller of the two towers, over the south entrance. The detail is in the brickwork and the medieval-fortress pretensions of an athletics ground. Worth the few steps round to see it straight on.

3. KTH campus
North across Valhallavägen into the red-brick courtyards of the Royal Institute of Technology — early-1900s academic architecture, student traffic, a calm quad or two. Cut through it on the way to the trees.

4. Lill-Jansskogen
The edge of the city forest — proper pine and birch, soft paths, the sound of the road gone within minutes. You're still inside Stockholm, which is the surprise of it.

5. The forest trails
Pick any of the marked paths and wander north and east; they loop. Muddy after rain — boots help — but the point is to be in a forest without having left town.

6. Tekniska Högskolan
Come out of the woods by the KTH main buildings and the red-line station takes you straight back. A walk that starts at a stadium and ends in a forest, both in the same postcode.

Lill-Jansskogen: the brick stadium and the city forest