Neil Hopcroft

We went to Skansen for midsummer again this year.

[Audiobook, listened with Adelle] Eagle Dreams, Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia by Stephen Bodio Wanting more writing about travels in tundra I chose this book – it recounts a fascination with falconry from childhood and a desire to visit lands where nomads use eagles for hunting. Once Mongolia started down the path to independence […]

Gävle is a small port city on the east coast of Sweden, notable for its iron exports (from areas like Högbo). Now, though, there is an overwhelming smell of coffee roasting pervading the town.

We took a final walk around Högbo bruk.

Theres something wonderful about waking up in a place with a Bessemer converter at the bottom of the garden.

In the woods beyond Högbo bruk church I found something quite peculiar.

Over the road for Högbo bruk is a small country church.

[Softback, read aloud to Adelle] Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä This is a short book, part diary, part memoir, about the settling of Tove and Tooti on the island of Klovharun, and their subsequent life there. It starts with the discovery of a desolate island and their choice to move […]

We wandered some more around the grounds at Högbo bruk.