Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for January 2025

Skansen open air museum – part 1

We accidentally decided to go to the Skansen museum – we went on a bus tour of the city, which drove around Djurgården (among other places) pointing out the attractions available there. We thought there was some deal for getting in cheaply because we’d been on the bus tour but had managed to get ourselves confused. But […]

Söderhallarna

Looking back: not far from here was ‘the English Shop’, where you could buy baked beans and marmite, if you so desired. We didn’t go there much but it was a comfort to know that we could. Södermalm is, in some ways, the Boulevard Saint-Germain of Stockholm, a bohemian island where all the cool kids hang out. […]

Karlavägen

Looking back: Somehow I never ended up finding these places again, despite much ambling around the city.

Taking a walk down Valhalla Avenue

Valhallavägen forms the northeast boundary of the city centre, running north of Östermalm from the 1912 Olympic Stadium to Ladugårdsgärdet. It was built as part of the regeneration of Östermalm from slum dockland to the plush part of the city it remains to this day. The stadium is far smaller than we expect these days […]

Going underground

Looking back: the Tunnelbana system is known as the longest art gallery in the world – most of the stations have some kind of theme of works. The underground train system in Stockholm is called ‘tunnelbana‘, t-bana or T-train for short. There are three lines, imaginatively named ‘red’, ‘green’ and ‘blue’, though they missed a […]

Central Station

Like many cities, Stockholm has a central station where everything converges – all the ‘pendeltag’ and inter-city trains stop here, and the underground (tunnelbana) lines all pass through T-Centrallen, connected to central station. There is also a coach station here for long distance coaches.