Two days later, on Aug. 16, they reconnected by phone and the woman invited him to her apartment, more than 40 miles outside Stockholm.

Her church in Stockholm recently started a monthly food kitchen for the city’s homeless, and she hopes to work a lot more with them as well.

Then, when I was on a sabbatical in Stockholm, I had the opportunity to get involved with the Swedish Twin Registry, a large cohort study in which some researchers were looking at cognition.

Behind us, the Stockholm, an island in itself, nosed into the ice almost up to the stern.

For nearly three and a half centuries she lay at the bottom of Stockholm harbour until her discovery in 1956.