Neil Hopcroft

Walking back from Ulriksdal Slott along the lakeside of Lake Edsviken (Swedish).

I took the bus to Mörby station, which was interesting more for the narrow gauge railway that runs through it than anything else. So I walked back toward town through Inverness.

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.

Over the bridge toward Södermalm from Marieberg is the park-island of Långholmen.

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 […]

So I checked the map to find a suitable destination on the line through the tunnel and found my way to the platform. Saltsjöbaden is a small suburb some distance from the city centre, it is on the end of a penninsular, and hence, on the end of its train line (though apparently the line did have a further […]

I had intended to take a boat ride to Vaxholm, but had managed to get myself confused about where to catch it – I first went to the Djurgården ferry jetty. By the time I arrived at the right place I could see what I thought might be the boat I wanted just getting ready to leave. […]

Somehow I managed to turn the wrong way out of Karlberg Pendletåg station on my way to the Slott, I could see where I wanted to be, but there was no way to get there short of navigating across a major rail artery, a six metre drop and a dual carriageway. I thought better of […]