Neil Hopcroft

The Natural History Museum in on the campus of the University is an impressive building we’ve driven past a few times and always wondered what it contained. There’s a lot of interesting displays, including one on Gay Animals (which kinda suggests its rather more common in the animal world than some people would have you believe). There is also […]

The Thiel Gallery is a small art gallery at the end of Djurgården. This is a picture of a house over the way from the gallery itself.

It was a spooky foggy night at Arlanda, and I had arrived early to pick A. up so thought I’d take a wander around.

Within the ruins of Hovgården is a runestone, Upplands 11:“Rað þu runaR. Rett let rista ToliR bryti i roði kunungi. ToliR ok Gylla letu ris[ta] …, þaun hion æftiR [si]k(?) mærki … Hakon bað rista.”“You read the runes! Right let cut them Tolir, bailiff in Roden, to the king. Tolir and Gylla let carve (these runes), this pair […]

The ruins of Hovgården on Adelsö are quite extensive – this was the royal seat while the city was on the nearby island of Björkö.

The ferry over to Lilla Stenby crosses while the lake around is frozen.

[Read aloud to Adelle] Beyond Siberia by Christina Dodwell I found this book in large print lurking in a National Trust second hand bookshop, and I have yet to find a way to resist travel books, especially when they involve tundra. As a book published in 1993 this offers a window into a parochial world […]

Further north west on the island of Ekerö is the village of Munsö, with a round church.