Neil Hopcroft

Beyond Rindö Redoubt I was looking for Fredriksborg Ruin, an abandoned castle, but ended up missing the road and heading off into the countryside – eventually I figured out I’d gone too far along the main road and headed back to find the track to the ruin. There were a number of other people there taking photographs.

On the other side of the channel past Vaxholm is Rindö redoubt. I was looking for lunch but instead found a modern art museum just opening for a new show. This was a little peculiar. Its a fort built late in the 19th century to protect Stockholm from invading Russian ships, but has now been converted into an […]

In the swamps outside Vaxholm is Bogesunds Slott, a fortified manor.

I took the car to Vaxholm, stopping at some swamps along the way.

Some more pictures of Kista after dark.

The nights are drawing in now, giving me a chance to head to Gamla Stan and take some more pictures of the city lit up across the water.

Broborg is an ancient hill fort in Knivsta kommun, it remains somewhat imprenetrable even these days, with the signs suggesting that you climb several banks of boulders to reach the top – there is a better way up but I didn’t find that until I had already scaled the rocks.

I found something called a ‘borgruin‘ on the map, so had to go and find out what that was. Turns out that its a ruined manor house, which, in its day, must have been an impressive property looking out over the lake.

Some rune stones outside Angarns Kyrka.

Near the small town of Orkesta is a ruined manor house – really it is just foundations now but the artists impression on an information board nearby suggest it was at one time an impressive building.