Sergels Torg is one of the central squares in Stockholm, to the left of this picture is the Kulturhuset where we found the abandoned chess club.
Sergels Torg
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
Backstreets of Gamla Stan
We found some more backstreets in Gamla Stan, always more surprises.
Edssjön runestone
By the church at Edssjön is a runestone.
Edssjön
I stopped at Edssjön before, on my way back from Runsa, but there was a wedding going on so I didn’t get a chance to explore. Not that there is a lot to see there.
Sollentuna Nature Reserve
To the north of Akalla, is a nature reserve with the Barkarby Flygplats in one corner.
Book review review
This is the first year I have reviewed all the books I have read (well, all bar two, reviews of which will be coming up over the next couple of weeks) – so time for a look back at those reviews.
Best book of the year
Best non-fiction book of the year
Worst book of the year
Best cat book of the year
The other books
- The Last London by Iain Sinclair
- Overdiagnosed by H Gilbert Welch
- Skandar and the Chaos Trials by AF Steadman
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
- How to Read a Room by Dr Mike Bechtle
- Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
- Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown
- The Broken Rung by by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee and Maria del mar Martinez
- The Cat with Three Passports by CJ Fentiman
- Climate Change, How we can get to Carbon Zero by Bianca Nogrady
- Skunkworks by Ben R Rich
- Virtual Light by William Gibson
- Ignition by John Drury Clark
- We’ll Prescribe you a Cat by Syou Ishida
- Bracing for Impact by Robin Suerig Holleran and Lindy Philip
- The Island House by Mary Considine
- Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz
- Healing Hands by J Bernard Hutton
- Why Planes Crash by David Soucie and Ozzie Cheek
- Ripples in the Chronostream by Lucan Merrian
- Spacefarers by Christopher Wanjek
- Jet Man by Duncan Campbell Smith
Mill at Vira Bruk
At the bottom of the Vira Bruk waterfall is an old mill, no longer in use but with a lot of infrastructure still intact.
Vira Bruk
Some way to the north east of Stockholm is the small settlement of Vira Bruk (Swedish), a small waterfall and mill dating from the 17th century hiding in the forest.
Åkersberga
The suburb of Åkersberga is at the end of the Roslagsbanan, there are signs toward a borgruin, but when I tried to follow them I couldn’t find it.
Gröna Lund Julmarknad
The Jul market at Gröna Lund was somewhat less authentically Swedish than the one at Skansen.
