Neil Hopcroft

In the distance from Östersund you can just about see a range of mountains rising out of the plains. We took a drive up into them to take a look around.

The bridge from Solna over the motorway to Haga parken has memorials to a number of people – Gustav III, Fredrik Magnus Piper, Louis Jean Desprez and Carl Michael Bellman – all influential people in life in the park.

The longboat was moored on the shores of Nörderon, next to where the ferry lands, waiting to be taken out of the water before the ice comes. The ferry is replaced by an ice road in the depths of winter. We were waiting for a large enough crew to hold the boat steady as it was raised on […]

We took the ferry over the water to Norderön.

Further up the road toward Östersund is the Big Moose motel, with the smallest railway station I’ve ever seen.

We went to Östersund again, by car this time though. We stopped for lunch at the weirdest motorway service station I’ve ever seen.

[Read aloud to Adelle] Islands of Abandonment – Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn When I bought this book the woman behind the till told me to look out for the cows, they’re amazing. She wasn’t wrong. This book is a tour of sites abandoned by humans, left for nature to reclaim because […]

There is a river running through the centre of Uppsala.

Standing above the city of Uppsala is the imposing Slott.