Neil Hopcroft

I went to Trosa before, but it seems I didn’t find the centre. Its a pretty port town with a river leading to the sea.

[Audiobook] A field guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, read by Rebecca herself. She has a lovely voice, calm, melancholy, soporific, and absolutely dreadful to listen to while driving. I have listened again because her words got lost in the sound of the diesel engine first time around, it will get another listen too, […]

We returned to Tullgarns Slott for a proper look around.

Back to Nyköping again.

Beyond Låssa Church lies the remains of the ancient settlement of Rösaring – I originally found it when I was visiting Låssa but had to return the hire car so didn’t have time to explore properly, so had been meaning to return.“The Rösaring area houses many unusual remains from the Bronze Age and the Viking Age. For […]

We went to Steninge Slott just as a thunderstorm was coming.

There are a number of runestones at Skansen.

While the people were all off enjoying Midsummer we snuck off to see the animals. Its quite unusual to get to see them at dusk like that (midnight on midsummer isn’t dark in Stockholm).

[Audiobook] A history of the Amish by Steven M Nolt (available from archive.org) A colleague told me about an Amish supermarket, which didn’t fit with my understanding of their culture. So wanting to find out some more I listened to this book. It contains a detailed history of the origins and migration of the Amish […]

Many of the Skansen buildings were open for midsummer.