Neil Hopcroft

Outside the small village of Aspa is a brook.

Just outside Taxinge (“home of the young badgers”) lies a castle, but I didn’t find that. Instead I found a cairn marking a medieval burial ground.

Outside Runtuna Kyrka there are a couple of rune stones, one of which is, I believe, Sö 143. “Eyjarr lét gera kuml bæði eptir “Ingulf, son sinn. Hjalpi “Kristr ǫnd hans.”.

Runtuna (Swedish) is a small parish to the north of Nyköping.

From the board at the site (I couldn’t find any information with Google): “Här är ett område fullt av historia. Det börjar med Odens Berg under Järnåaldern och går from till statarnas 1930-tal. Väster om vägen har registrerats ett 60-tal flacka gravar. Vid vägen mot Ärsta ligger ett gravfält med ett 20-tal gravhögar. Att urskilja […]

Walking back from Ulriksdal Slott along the lakeside of Lake Edsviken (Swedish).

On the way back from Inverness I stopped by Ulriksdal Slott.

I took the bus to Mörby station, which was interesting more for the narrow gauge railway that runs through it than anything else. So I walked back toward town through Inverness.

We walked up the hill from Uppsala to the castle on top of the hill.

A. with a runestone.