Neil Hopcroft

We found some more backstreets in Gamla Stan, always more surprises.

By the church at Edssjön is a runestone.

I stopped at Edssjön before, on my way back from Runsa, but there was a wedding going on so I didn’t get a chance to explore. Not that there is a lot to see there.

To the north of Akalla, is a nature reserve with the Barkarby Flygplats in one corner.

At the bottom of the Vira Bruk waterfall is an old mill, no longer in use but with a lot of infrastructure still intact.

Some way to the north east of Stockholm is the small settlement of Vira Bruk (Swedish), a small waterfall and mill dating from the 17th century hiding in the forest.

The suburb of Åkersberga is at the end of the Roslagsbanan, there are signs toward a borgruin, but when I tried to follow them I couldn’t find it.

The Jul market at Gröna Lund was somewhat less authentically Swedish than the one at Skansen.

We went to the Jul market at Skansen, where we entered the cheese lottery and won a miniture cheese grater. We gave the sausage lottery in the next hut over a wide berth

Some more snow in Kista, outside my office this time.