TheSupercargo’s Travel Blog
[Sticky post] Stops & Stories is my travel blog collecting posts about journeys I’ve taken, places I’ve stopped and about the stories I’ve come across
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Fishcakes my Grandmother made
Rising to a challenge posed by WeAreEurope, I try to recreate the childhood food — “salmon cutlets” — that my grandmother used to make.
Thomas Coram and the Foundling Museum
It was only by chance that Mrs SC and I found the Foundling Museum, but what a fascinating story about charity and children and the arts!
To London in the rain: tourists on a bus
Mrs SC and I have been in England. We went for my mother’s 100th birthday, but before the party, we spent a couple of days as tourists in London. It’s two years since we’ve been out of Sweden, and exactly two years since I was last in London. We stayed at a hotel in Bloomsbury. … More…
Return to Tema: the search for house and school
Part 2 of The Return to Tema, in which, in 2018, I search for the house I remember living in and the school I attended back in 1963 and 1964.
Return to Tema: the motorway then and now
When I was a child and my family were in Ghana, we lived in Tema while my dad worked on the motorway. Tema then was a small coastal town to the east of Accra. Small but busy. Nowadays, it is large and very busy. If it hasn’t yet been absorbed as an outlying suburb of … More…
Seven years ago in Brussels, photos from 2015
Seven years ago Mrs SC and I moved to Brussels. I’ve just turned up these photos I took the first few weeks there, never before shared!
Skiing downhill, with or without an audience
Skiing downhill was never my strong suit – let’s face it, skiing was never my strong suit – but once upon a time I used to ski every winter.
City of Lights, libraries and bridges – back to Sundsvall
Paying a visit back to Sundsvall – for 10 years in the 1980s and 1990s the northern Swedish city where Mrs SC and I lived and worked.
A November Legacy – looking back at TheSupercargo
After all these years there’s a legacy of posts at TheSupercargo stretching back for 10+ years; here are some November adjacent ones.
A post-Covid cricket in the Antique Halls café
The chirupping of a cricket in Gothenburg’s Antique Halls is a puzzle, as I try out the writing-friendly qualities of the Latteria