Neil Hopcroft

The longboat was moored on the shores of Nörderon, next to where the ferry lands, waiting to be taken out of the water before the ice comes. The ferry is replaced by an ice road in the depths of winter. We were waiting for a large enough crew to hold the boat steady as it was raised on […]

We took the ferry over the water to Norderön.

Further up the road toward Östersund is the Big Moose motel, with the smallest railway station I’ve ever seen.

We went to Östersund again, by car this time though. We stopped for lunch at the weirdest motorway service station I’ve ever seen.

There is a river running through the centre of Uppsala.

Standing above the city of Uppsala is the imposing Slott.

In the grounds of Uppsala Cathedral there are more runestones

I went back to Uppsala.

In the churchyard by the Medieval Abbey in Sigtuna is a rune stone and a couple of fragments built into a small building.