I was in Nyköping yesterday and took the opportunity to visit the nearby Släbro rock carvings, not far from the freeway. I’ve used one of the images from Släbro in my game Petroglyph and I want to see if I can find it. While rock carvings elsewhere in Sweden features boats and objects that can … Continue reading Släbro rock carvings
In an open area not far from the city centre of Norrköping you can find the Himmelstalund rock carvings. Ships, swords, animals, people, carved into the flat rocky surface millennia ago. Norrköping sits at Bråviken, a large fjord that cuts into Sweden’s east coast 100 km south of Stockholm. When the glacier that covered Sweden … Continue reading Himmelstalund rock carvings
In a few weeks, September 13, Sweden holds elections. Today early voting opened, and as I will be working on election day (helping out with the election), I voted today. Sweden holds elections for municipality, regions, and national assemblies on the same day and the election period is 4 years. The current majority is predicted … Continue reading Election time
As I was in the area, I took a detour to see the Snösätra Wall of Fame. An abandoned industrial area turned into a canvas for street artists from all over the world. Each spring in a week long festival new works are completed and all summer people come and practice their skills. It's a … Continue reading Snösätra Wall of Fame
In a beautiful Swedish mountain scape that you drive through on the freeway on the way to Norway, lies a Word Heritage Site with spectacular Bronze Age rock carvings. To go there was top of my list for our family vacation in Västra Götaland this year. We stopped at the Vitlycke Museum on a bright … Continue reading The Tanum Rock Carvings
The weather forecast promised warm sunny days and asked my oldest if he would join me for a hike. We had canceled a planned hike due to rain earlier this summer. The idea this time was to hike from the southernmost tip of Botkyrka, the municipality in which we live, and home along Sörmlandsleden. 28 … Continue reading Hiking Sörmlandsleden through Botkyrka
The bedrock is a treasure trove of rock art. Moose are abundant but also fish, humans, boats and dots and lines that are harder to identify. Worn away by water and weather or left unfinished by the artist for unknown reasons. A herd of moose on the way to the water. I’m at Nämforsen deep … Continue reading The Nämforsen Rock Art
This year instead of driving down to Denmark, we drove 500 km north to the Swedish High Coast. Here, land has risen more than 200 meters since the last ice age, leaving spectacular mountains dropping steeply into the sea. One such mountain is Skuleberget peaking at 295 meter, at the foot of which we have … Continue reading Swedish High Coast
Subtopia is a production hub for art and creativity in Alby, Botkyrka, run by the local muncipality. Housed in the former production facilities of LM Ericsson’s dairy farm in Alby, it’s a place with high ceiling and space for experimentation. LM Ericsson (1846-1926) was the entrepreneur that brought phones into the lives of people in … Continue reading Subtopia: Street art and DIY veggies
One theme I posted about when I visited Singapore two years ago was Trees of Singapore. In just a few days I had taken lots of pictures of trees that I found interesting. Trees come in many different sizes and shapes and when you travel to a new climate you notice that trees are not … Continue reading Trees of Botkyrka
