Neil Hopcroft

Animal garden – this island is home of Skansen, among other things. A place reserved for cultural highlights of the city. We were there to visit the aquarium, but took a walk along the waterfront back to Kungstradgården T-bana. Find the aquarium was a bit of an adventure, most other things on the island are well […]

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Part 1 Part 2 Adelle at Skansen

Previously: Skansen open air museum – part 1 Skyline

We accidentally decided to go to the Skansen museum – we went on a bus tour of the city, which drove around Djurgården (among other places) pointing out the attractions available there. We thought there was some deal for getting in cheaply because we’d been on the bus tour but had managed to get ourselves confused. But […]

A walk around the island of Södermalm

Looking back: not far from here was ‘the English Shop’, where you could buy baked beans and marmite, if you so desired. We didn’t go there much but it was a comfort to know that we could. Södermalm is, in some ways, the Boulevard Saint-Germain of Stockholm, a bohemian island where all the cool kids hang out. […]

Looking back: Somehow I never ended up finding these places again, despite much ambling around the city.

Valhallavägen forms the northeast boundary of the city centre, running north of Östermalm from the 1912 Olympic Stadium to Ladugårdsgärdet. It was built as part of the regeneration of Östermalm from slum dockland to the plush part of the city it remains to this day. The stadium is far smaller than we expect these days […]