The Runö Community today

How does the island survive?

Half-a-dozen families living off the land, the rest paid by the state or local council

"The happiest days"...?

The statistics for Runö school conjure up a fascinating picture - 8 classes, 3 teachers ... and 7 pupils

L'apprentis Eiffel?

The lighthouse was said to be another of M. Eiffel's Towers - its spindly construction would lead one to say that it must have been an apprentice-piece if so... I wasn't altogether sad when the information we had, that we could go up at 6pm, turned out to be wrong...

We have a photo, but I can't find it just now ...