Neil Hopcroft

Smaklust is all about the food. With many samples to try and buy if you like there were tastes from all over Sweden.

We went to the Smaklust Swedish food festival in Hornstull. The place was full of the wonderful smells of the best food from across the country, with each county being represented in an area of the festival.

There was a parade of winners at the end of the Barkarby Classic Car Show.

Futurliner #8 was on show, having recently arrived in Sweden for a ten year resoration project. Originally used as part of the Parade of Progress there were 12 of these futuristic buses made and driven across America during the 40s and 50s showing off developments being made in auto engineering.

At the Barkarby car show there was a stand showing tools and equipment for looking after classic cars.

As expected there were plenty of American cars at the Barkarby Show this year.

This years show at Barkarby was a good deal smaller than last years, since the weather was quite horrible. Still, there were a few good cars out.

Not far from our new flat is a beach. By a lake this has a number of the facilities you’d expect to find at a seaside.

There were surprisingly few Japanese cars at Street Cars Fest.

As you would expect at a Street Car Festival there was plenty of ICE on show, though I’m not sure that I could see my way to dedicating the whole of my boot to such a system some of these things sound a lot better than the rattly over driven things you hear screeching around the ring […]