Neil Hopcroft

The lake at Drottningholm was frozen over, but we weren’t brave enough to try walking across it.

A walk around the gardens at Drottningholm in the snow.

We went back to Drottningholm Slott after the recent snowfalls. It makes such a difference to see them covered in snow.

Sergels Torg is one of the central squares in Stockholm, to the left of this picture is the Kulturhuset where we found the abandoned chess club.

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.