Neil Hopcroft

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.

[Read aloud to Adelle] Fishing in Utopia, Sweden and the Future that Disappeared This book rewinds to before our time in Sweden and describes a country we hardly recognise. There are some familiar aspects, of course, a lot of it revolves around the quintessence of Swedishness, that acceptance of others but only as long as […]

I wanted to show A. the runestones in Uppsala, so we bundled onto a crowded train and headed north. Thankfully the connection from Uplands Vasby wasn’t so busy and we had a chance to relax a little before hitting the bitter cold of easter.

Another view of modern spires in Kista.

After wandering around Kista woods I took a walk through Helenelund again.

Outside the Akalla municipal heatworks is a little reminder of times passed.

This easter it snowed here again – this time I thought I would take a wander in the opposite direction to last time. I found a pathway through some woods which has now been severed by an extensive set of roadworks.