Stockholm and beyond

Along with the American classics there was the occasional vintage car.
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Some classic Swedish cars at Barkarby,
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Some custom cars based around American cars
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Between Gamla Stan and Djurgården is the royal island of Skeppsholmen, with a number of museums and beautiful views across the water to other parts of the city.
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On the island of Skeppsholmen is some art outside the modern art museum.
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After Skeppsholmen, we took the ferry over to Djurgården where we went to Gröna Lund to win more Daim bars than we can realistically eat.
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We stopped by Uppsala, visiting the old town this time. I was expecting this to be more of a town, instead it is the site of the ancient village, with a number of burial mounds and a lot of history.
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There are a couple of rune stones by the church in Gamla Uppsala.
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"Eilífr and Sigviðr had the stone raised in memory of Véfastr, their father."
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"Sigviðr, traveller to England, raised this stone in memory of Védjarfr, (his) father ... ... ... "

We visited Norrtälje, a small industrial town to the north east of Stockholm.
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Beyond Norrtälje is a small peninsula with a port on the end of it. From here you can catch boats to Helsinki, Turku and various ports in Poland and Estonia.
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The World Hovercraft Championship came to Stockholm, so we had to go and see. In many ways it reminded me of the old karting days, with a number of heats of different class craft culminating in a final at the end of the day.

It was an exciting day out, with some fantastic races, the smell of two stroke engines and machine oil, and the sound of a lot of air being blown around. The most exciting race had around 15 entrants and ended up with two craft nearly sinking, leading it to be called off early and rerun later.

(pictures from camera phone and rescued from main camera after something of a technical hitch involving corrupt file systems)

The paddock at the World Hovercraft Championship

Street Car Fest came to the Barkarby Flygplats, this was a much bigger day than the last one, in the corner of a car park on a rainy day. And the cars more real, somehow, than the classic cars the week before.
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Some American cars on show at the Street Car Fest.
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Some Japanese cars at Street Cars Fest
(see American cars and the track)
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Some Swedish cars at the Street Cars Fest.
(See also American cars, Japanese cars and the track)
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A stylish German car, my old sysadmin used to drive a car like this.
(see also American cars, Japanese cars, Swedish cars and the track)
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Some hot rods at the Street Cars Fest. There's something wonderful about a car whose engine doesn't all fit under the bonnet.
(see also American cars, Swedish cars, Japanese cars, German car and the track)
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A custom car at the Street Cars Fest.
(see also American cars, Japanese cars, Swedish cars, German car, Hot Rods and the track)
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We took a drive out to Eskiltuna Parken Zoo (Swedish), 100km West of Stockholm.
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Some art around Parken Zoo.
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Some buildings at Parken Zoo.
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A. at Parken Zoo.
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We set out to find the Tyresta but for various reasons we ended up on the wrong road and found Tyresö slott instead. In the castle is a health spa and a small cafe, literally in the kitchen of the castle. You can sit at the kitchen table watching the food being made.
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I took A. to Ulriksdals slott.


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We found some lunch at the harbour at Nyköping.
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I dropped A. off at the airport and popped in to Nynäs Slott on the way home.
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The nearest town to Nynäs slott is Trosa, a small old town apparently rebuilt in 1719 but now the home of some of the richest people in Sweden.
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Jan Fridegårds (also known as Johan Fridolf Johansson) (link in swedish) was a prolateriat writer who died in the '60s, this is a cottage and garden dedicated to his memory. It was such an odd thing that I had to stop to take a look, but couldn't figure out what any of it was until I looked him up when I got home.
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The Brandskogskeppet ("fire forest ship") is a carving of a ship in the forest at the edge of what was once a lake - the land has been rising for centuries and it is now by a lush valley.
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Not far from the Brandskogship are a number of other rock carvings showing various important things from their time - a lot of ships and herds of animals, along with a number of people.
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