Neil Hopcroft

Siggesta Gård is an art and leisure centre on the road back from Fredricksborg Ruin to Stockholm. There are a number of outdoor activities here, including quite a fun looking minigolf and pony riding.

Beyond Rindö Redoubt I was looking for Fredriksborg Ruin, an abandoned castle, but ended up missing the road and heading off into the countryside – eventually I figured out I’d gone too far along the main road and headed back to find the track to the ruin. There were a number of other people there taking photographs.

[Read aloud to Adelle] We’ll prescribe you another cat by Syou Ishida Following on from We’ll prescribe you a cat, this book explores the additional benefit gained from having access to more than one cat. The Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul remains elusive and can only be found by those in need of the […]

On the other side of the channel past Vaxholm is Rindö redoubt. I was looking for lunch but instead found a modern art museum just opening for a new show. This was a little peculiar. Its a fort built late in the 19th century to protect Stockholm from invading Russian ships, but has now been converted into an […]

In the swamps outside Vaxholm is Bogesunds Slott, a fortified manor.

I took the car to Vaxholm, stopping at some swamps along the way.

Some more pictures of Kista after dark.

The nights are drawing in now, giving me a chance to head to Gamla Stan and take some more pictures of the city lit up across the water.

Broborg is an ancient hill fort in Knivsta kommun, it remains somewhat imprenetrable even these days, with the signs suggesting that you climb several banks of boulders to reach the top – there is a better way up but I didn’t find that until I had already scaled the rocks.

[Audiobook] Spacefarers, How Humans will Settle the Moon, Mars and Beyond by Christopher Wanjek. This book fills the gap between the Apollo missions and the world of The Expanse, giving a step by step guide to how our exploration of the solar system could go, and details the kinds of problems we’ll need to solve […]