Neil Hopcroft

We walked up the hill from Uppsala to the castle on top of the hill.

A. with a runestone.

I wanted to show A. the runestones in Uppsala, so we bundled onto a crowded train and headed north. Thankfully the connection from Uplands Vasby wasn’t so busy and we had a chance to relax a little before hitting the bitter cold of easter.

Another view of modern spires in Kista.

After wandering around Kista woods I took a walk through Helenelund again.

Outside the Akalla municipal heatworks is a little reminder of times passed.

This easter it snowed here again – this time I thought I would take a wander in the opposite direction to last time. I found a pathway through some woods which has now been severed by an extensive set of roadworks.

We went to Hässelby Strand, at the end of the Tunnelbana line. Although the lakeside there is closeby the station there are rather too many blocks of modern flats around the area for it to really be an interesting place. Some pictures from 1950s (in Swedish, but theres quite a nice collection of pictures on most of […]

We took another walk around the back streets of Gamla Stan.

After leaving Uppsala I found some more rune stones. I believe these are U962, U963, U964 and U965, based on finding them outside Vaksala church, but cannot find any information on their inscriptions or translations (can anyone read runes?). Updated: This site suggests some translations.