The village of Grisslehamn is where the post route leaves Sweden to cross the Baltic via Åland to Finland.
Grisslehamn
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
Book review: Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature
[Audio lecture series]
The Great Courses: Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature
This is a lecture series covering a number of aspects of darkness in human nature. It starts with an exploration of good and evil and what that means when applied to people.
Each half-hour lecture focuses on a topic, typically exploring the meaning of that topic, how that topic affects people in their day-to-day life and some advice to help you react, or at least think, if you are affected.
Particularly interesting, for me, where the talks on dark thoughts, self deception and the elimination of anger.
The topics are covered with a deliberate definition of the terms and topics, giving each half-hour the feel of a lecture, it is not light listening, but I don’t feel that it really covered what I was hoping for. That said, I’m not sure how you would cover what I was hoping for.
Karls Kyrkoruin
Further along the post route is the ruin of a church.
Norra Malma nature reserve
I followed the Post Route toward Grisslehamn. On the way I found a fake (or, at least, modern) rune stone.
Photography show
There was a photography show at the exhibition centre in Alvsjö, hundereds of photographers of various sorts seeing the new equipment from all the big manufacturers.
Lanterns in Kunstradgården
There were some lanterns celebrating an autumn festival in Kungstradgården.
Hallowe’en cakes
After a little hiatus due to holidays (of which more later), we’re back and can pick up where we left off, lets start the year with some Hallowe’en cakes. Swedes will take any excuse to have special cakes, and All Hallows Eve is no exception, though they celebrate All Saints Day more.
Sollentuna Galleria
The new Sollentuna Centrum has now opened fully.
Gamla Djurgården again
We went to Gamla Djurgården again.
Biological museum
The Biological Museum is an odd looking building about which we have been curious since we arrived in this city. The oddness continues on the inside as you pass various stuffed abominations and ascend into a landscape of Sweden inhabited by many examples of its local wildlife against a painted backdrop.
