Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for August 2025

Stadshuset‎

Walking along from Kungsholmen toward Gamla Stan I took a closer look at the City Hall, and saw that the gardens are open to walk around.

Kungsholmen

I took a walk along the shore of Kungsholmen, with views across the lake to Långholmen and Södermalm.

Kungstradgården

Our final stop after Långholmen was Kungstradgården, where, for a change, there wasn’t any ice skating going on.

Book review: A Fools Wisdom by Steven Young

[Audiobook, listened on the way to meet a spirit doctor] A Fools Wisdom by Steven Young This is a terrible book. DO. NOT. WASTE. YOUR. TIME! Hiding somewhere within these pages (waveforms) there is a germ of a good idea. The author manages to trample that good idea by riding roughshod over it with a […]

Långholmen prison

Långholmen prison is now a hotel and hostel, where the rooms are cells. It also has a small museum to show information about some of the more infamous prisoners and development of the prison itself. When the prison closed, the island became a leisure island, a parkland near the centre of the city. See also Långholmen and Långholmen Öst