Neil Hopcroft

The paddock at the World Hovercraft Championship

The World Hovercraft Championship came to Stockholm, so we had to go and see. In many ways it reminded me of the old karting days, with a number of heats of different class craft culminating in a final at the end of the day. It was an exciting day out, with some fantastic races, the smell of […]

[Read aloud to Adelle] Healing Hands, The Amazing True Story of a Spirit Doctor [available on archive.org] by J Bernard Hutton We went to visit a spirit doctor in Birmingham, the ill-fated journey that brought us A Fools Wisdom and a new scratch on the side of the car, and bought this book about George […]

Beyond Norrtälje is a small peninsula with a port on the end of it. From here you can catch boats to Helsinki, Turku and various ports in Poland and Estonia.

We visited Norrtälje, a small industrial town to the north east of Stockholm.

There are a couple of rune stones by the church in Gamla Uppsala.

We stopped by Uppsala, visiting the old town this time. I was expecting this to be more of a town, instead it is the site of the ancient village, with a number of burial mounds and a lot of history.

After Skeppsholmen, we took the ferry over to Djurgården where we went to Gröna Lund to win more Daim bars than we can realistically eat.

On the island of Skeppsholmen is some art outside the modern art museum.

Between Gamla Stan and Djurgården is the royal island of Skeppsholmen, with a number of museums and beautiful views across the water to other parts of the city.