Neil Hopcroft

[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.

We went to Högbo bruk, a former iron working site and one of the seeds of Swedens industrial revolution, now a recreational area.

We stopped again at the Dragon Gate services, with a little more time to explore this time.

After the Rosendal Slott car show we stopped at Gröna Lund.

To the south of Djurgården is the Baltic sea.

[Read aloud to Adelle, although my pronunciation of the Icelandic words and place names leaves rather a lot to be desired] The Raven’s Nest, an Icelandic Journey through Light and Darkness by Sarah Thomas This book follows the discovery of a new land by the writer, a land of wonder, of love, of darkness and […]

In the Gardens of Rosendals Slott on Djurgården there was a show of cars over 50 years old. Thankfully there were some newer classics there too, including plenty from the 60s.

The gardens of Rosendals Slott – “this is a corner of a larger field”.