Neil Hopcroft

Around the corner from Lindormsnäs is Låssa, the village closest to the Rösaring Stone Labyrinth – the maze itself is buried deep in a country park/nature reserve beyond the village. I didn’t have time to visit it before returning the car so is a place I want to revisit when I have some more time.

I thought I’d take advantage of having a car and have a bit of a drive around after dropping A off at the airport. A quick look at the map showed a labyrinth near Bro, so that seemed like a viable destination. However I got a bit distracted on the way there and found myself […]

One day I’m going to see Nyköping by daylight. But not until we’re a bit closer to summer. I took a wander along the riverside from the town centre toward the sea.

Kista looks quite different in the snow.

Between Kista and the centre of Stockholm the TBana passes through a nature reserve. This forms a part of the cities green belt, and is marked with a series of paths and cross country tracks, with different colours denoting different distance circuits.

Some views over the city at the end of our day at Skansen – it was a particularly beautiful sunset.

We found some ice skating in Kungstragården, a lot of the squares (or torgs) here have public skating rinks in. These are available for all to use.

We went to Skansen again when my sister came to visit.

At the end of the road to Skavsta there is the small industrial town of Nyköping, the NYO Skavsta gets its IATA airport code from. The town itself clearly used to be a major industrial centre, but now it is more of a tourist centre, with the old mills next to the river turned into heritage museums and handcraft shops. […]

I hired a car to collect A from the airport upon her return recently, it had snowed a little in the few days beforehand, but the roads themselves were clear. The cars here come with spiked tyres, which make quite a racket when theres no snow underwheel.