Heading south from Södermalm Öst, beyond the transport museum, is Hammerby Sjö, a small channel from the Baltic through to Hammerby Sluss, a lock connecting the sea and Lake Mälaren.
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
Archive for July 2025
Södermalm Öst
From the East of Södermalm, further along from Slussen harbourside you can look across the Baltic sea toward Djurgården
Telefonplan
Telefonplan was the home of Ericsson until recently, though now their headquarters have moved across town to Kista.
Fruängen
Fruängen is another concrete hell at the end of the metro system.
Liljeholmen recovery truck
A recovery truck in Liljeholmen
Synth picnic
Synth-picknick was a mini festival on Vinterviken. A slightly unusual affair being basically a sound system set up in a public area, so around 100 electro music fans were picnicking while listening to DJs. I can’t imagine it being possible to run an event like this in England without incurring the wrath of some local jobsworth who […]
Vinterviken
Vinterviken is a small rocky peninsular to the west of Stockholms centre. It is the former location of Alfred Nobels dynamite factory but has been renovated recently into parkland.
Book review: Climate Change, how we can get to carbon zero
[Read to self] Climate Change, how we can get to carbon zero, by Bianca Nogrady This was a book I picked up at the Eden Project in the knowledge that I was going to finish Neverwhere while we were in Cornwall. This is a bit of a weird book, on one level it is a […]
Liljeholmen
Across the water from Hornstull is the dockland area of Liljeholmen. The is a major interchange between the tram, bus and TBana systems serving this area of modern offices.
Hallunda
At the bottom of the red line is Hallunda and Norsborg in Botkyrka commune.