Tofta Camping
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Nu är vi på äntligen på väg! över en öl och en grov panini planerar vi resan nogrant! Vår plan so far: 1. Hitta karta, 2. Hitta hotellet, 3. Hitta en bar där vi kan vänta o dricka den lokala brygden i sex timmar innan vi kan checka in, 4. Checka in på rummet, 5.. Några ...
Chance meetings
On our first afternoon in Visby we stopped at a local cafe for a drink. As always we watch the people passing by, trying to guess where they are from, making up little stories about what they might be doing.
Today as we enjoyed our drink another couple took the table next to us. When I heard their first words of English I had to strike up a conversation. I sometime have a longing to speak English with ...
Visby today and decades ago....
A visit to Visby is like a step back in time...and this weekend many of the residents decided to take that step in costume! Each year they have a Medieval Festival. While our trip was quite spontaneous we were rewarded with some wonderful activities and photo opportunities.
You actually find a different view when everyone around you is wearing ...
Gonna party like its 1499!
... visiting hours, nothing modern is allowed, no watches, or processed cheese, no iphones or emos. People are cooking over open fires and suiting up in armour to practice their pretend swordsmanship, re-enacting is quite a art. To improvise realistic fighting with a predetermined outcome. The Visby army of farmers will lose and die just like in 1361. sigh
At night we spend a lot of time at the Norra Graver, just out side the northern wall. ...
Goodbye Blue Green algae!
... astronomical charges for a rickety pontoon in the sticks.
It was flat calm, despite what the forecast promised ( 4 – 12 knots from the East) so we resigned ourselves to motoring the 40 miles to Visby. The route took us west up the Fårösund , round the top of Gotland and then southwards down the west coast towards Visby. It was an uneventful passage apart from the ever present blue-green algae, which I first introduced on 26th July. Now we ...
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