Neil Hopcroft

Stockholm is a city built of islands – I had intended to explore them before, but had missed the boat. So I got up especially early for a trip to the archipelago. The boat ride is beautiful, taking just over an hour to get to Vaxholm, stopping at a number of islands on the way, but only the […]

Ugly wood art found during my exploration of Saltsjöbaden

So I checked the map to find a suitable destination on the line through the tunnel and found my way to the platform. Saltsjöbaden is a small suburb some distance from the city centre, it is on the end of a penninsular, and hence, on the end of its train line (though apparently the line did have a further […]

I had intended to take a boat ride to Vaxholm, but had managed to get myself confused about where to catch it – I first went to the Djurgården ferry jetty. By the time I arrived at the right place I could see what I thought might be the boat I wanted just getting ready to leave. […]

Somehow I managed to turn the wrong way out of Karlberg Pendletåg station on my way to the Slott, I could see where I wanted to be, but there was no way to get there short of navigating across a major rail artery, a six metre drop and a dual carriageway. I thought better of […]

Our new flat is a good deal closer to the Kista Galleria, this is the view from our window. Coincidentally it also snowed on the night before I took these pictures – the first snow of the year.

At the very northern point of the Edsviken lake is Edsbergs Slott, what appears to be a fortified manor or castle looking down the length of the lake. Some of the formal gardens are still maintained although it appears that the castle itself is no longer used as such – I didn’t investigate too closely but there […]

If instead of heading toward my office from the flat in Akalla I were to head the other way, I would find myself in Hägerstalund and Barkaby Flygfält, a small airfield with a suprisingly sloping runway. Hägerstalund appears to be a small fairly traditional farmstead, with an emphasis on horses although not quite like a […]

Some shots of the Kista & Akalla area at sunfall.

While exploring Akalla Park I found another rune stone. It is now standing by the junction between three paths near the grave grounds. “… had the stone raised … Rysja(?), his brother. He … east. Balli …”