The STF Vandrarhem AF Chapman & Skeppsholmen is a highly rated hostel on board and on land in a prominent location on the island of Skeppsholmen with a view of the charming medieval town of Gamla Stan...
[there was no room available on board when we were there, so we stayed at the lovely Hotel Skeppsholmen instead]
some of the many romantic and eccentric vintage boats [each with its own information plaque of its provenance and seafaring history] moored along the shores of the island...
The towboat is freckled with rust...
It is a heavy extinguished lamp in the cold.
But the trees have wild colors: signals to the other shore.
As if people wanted to be fetched.
[selected lines from the first verse of 'Sketch in October' by Tomas TRANSTROMER, from Paths, 1973 - this poem translated from the swedish by Robin Fulton]
[on the flight over (in October!), I read of Tomas Transtromer being finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 80 - he was born (and still lives) in Stockholm, publishing his first book of poems in 1954 and has since published many more volumes. I am liking what I am reading in translation but wish that I could read his poetry as he wrote them in swedish!]
working boatyards on the more rustic side of Skeppsholmen...
Dejeuner sur l'herbe by Pablo PICASSO, 1962
[sculptural installation in the shady back garden of the Moderna Museet]
[with the very cool Hotel Skeppsholmen in the background]
[this is one institute where I would love to be an art student again - while staying at that hotel!]
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