Neil Hopcroft

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.

A picture of Högalids kyrka (swedish) – just as it came from the camera. A spooky night indeed.

I got off the boat to Vaxholm to explore while I awaited the next return boat back to the city centre. The town itself is a small town of around 5000 people, sometimes considered the capital of the archipelago. It is not a large town, though it does have an impressive castle, standing protecting the waterway connecting Stockholm to the […]

Stockholm is a city built of islands – I had intended to explore them before, but had missed the boat. So I got up especially early for a trip to the archipelago. The boat ride is beautiful, taking just over an hour to get to Vaxholm, stopping at a number of islands on the way, but only the […]