Stockholm and beyond

There is a lot of Jewish history in Prague, the old cemetery is a busy graveyard with many stones fighting for space.

We had our final meal in Prague at the Grand Cafe Orient, a cubist cafe.

I went for another explore around Nacka Strand. Noticing this time that it must have been an old car works, with a similar feeling to the old Mini factory in Oxford.
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I found a car race track on the ice near Nacka, by the time I got there the weather had warmed a little so I didn't want to risk taking the car out myself.
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Väster haninge (Swedish) is a small town at the centre of its commun, served by the Pendletåg from Stockholm central.
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Hammersta Slott is a manor house that is now converted into a spa and sits in a nature reserve, it was too muddy for me to explore too much around.
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Outside Hammersta slott are a couple of rune stones, one is a modern memorial stone in the style of the ancient stones.
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In the nature reserve by Hammersta Slott is the ruin of the old castle.
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Sö 250: ”Gynna reste denna sten efter Saxe, Halvdans son.”
"Gynna raised this stone after Saxe, Halvdans son".
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Nynäshamn is a small town on the end of the Pendletåg from central Stockholm. Meaning literally "New Nose Harbour" it is the landing point for ferries across the Baltic to Poland and Gotland.
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Just outside the small harbour town of Nynäshamn, inconveniently located atop a bank by the main road to Stockholm, is an elaborate runestone.
(amateur translation)
"uikuir kiraistu stain iuk nunai skamunbanth rista stein stanta a auian uik firth ak raist a straintath haf a nuan thumakathu
irfirt uauth thu runar"
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Sorunda is a small village not far from Nynäshamn.
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"+ uihmar + (l)et + ra(i)-- + saen + þina + at + iaruta + mah + auk + felha + sin + auk + buþur + ka...a +"
"Vígmarr lét rei[sa] stein þenna at Jôrunda/Jôrund, mág ok félaga sinn ok bróður ..."
"Vígmarr had this stone raised in memory of Jôrundi/Jôrundr, his kinsman-by-marriage and partner and the brother ..."
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More pictures from Kista in the snow, a little further from my office this time.

Beyond Drottningholm is the town of Ekerö, near the bridge onto the island of the same name.
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Outside the town of Ekerö is a small palace.
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Asknäs is a small village on the island of Ekerö.
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Upplands 19: "Frösten reste denna sten efter Hadske sin fader"
"Frösten raised this stone after Hadske, his father"
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Further north west on the island of Ekerö is the village of Munsö, with a round church.
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The ferry over to Lilla Stenby crosses while the lake around is frozen.
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The ruins of Hovgården on Adelsö are quite extensive - this was the royal seat while the city was on the nearby island of Björkö.
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Within the ruins of Hovgården is a runestone, Upplands 11:
"Rað þu runaR. Rett let rista ToliR bryti i roði kunungi. ToliR ok Gylla letu ris[ta] ..., þaun hion æftiR [si]k(?) mærki ... Hakon bað rista."
"You read the runes! Right let cut them Tolir, bailiff in Roden, to the king. Tolir and Gylla let carve (these runes), this pair after themself as a memorial... Håkon bade carve."
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It was a spooky foggy night at Arlanda, and I had arrived early to pick A. up so thought I'd take a wander around.
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The Thiel Gallery is a small art gallery at the end of Djurgården. This is a picture of a house over the way from the gallery itself.
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The Natural History Museum in on the campus of the University is an impressive building we've driven past a few times and always wondered what it contained. Theres a lot interesting displays, including one on Gay Animals (which kinda suggests its rather more common in the animal world than some people would have you believe). There is also the Cosmonova, an IMAX cinema where we saw a film on black holes in rather more engaging surround than I was expecting, albeit with a somewhat vertigenous seating configuration.



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On the first proper day of spring we headed to the seaside of Saltsjöbaden, though the sun was out and it was a beautiful warm day the sea was still frozen over in places.
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To the south of the city is the Woodland Cemetary, a graveyard set in a tranquil woodland that is now within the urban area of Stockholm. We found the grave of Greta Garbo and a wonderful place for firey burial ceremony.
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Spring at the Sollentuna Nature Reserve is not so cold as the winter, though there were still some little pockets of snow around in the ditches.
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We went to the Tinitus Festival, run by the same people as last years Re:Publik