Best Western Sjofartshotellet Oskarshamn

... and sunny, as my whole summer has been.

Visby has been around since the 900's at least, was a member of the Hanseatic League in the 1200's and still retains most of the city wall built in the 12 and 1300's. Lena lives inside the city wall and the houses are very beautiful and kept up nicely. There are also about 6 churches in the inner city which are left as ruins and are just part of the landscape.

A few things about Swedish people - they love coffee (any time of the day or ...

... area and low and behold there WAS a lane #6 DUH!!! Don't you think 2 college educated adults could of figured that one out. Well, we arrived safe and sound on the ferry, locked up the Europa-mobile and headed out to the passenger area. An interesting thing about this ferry, it also carries trains. As I said I had pre-bought our tickets and didn't realize that you did not have to purchase a cabin. Well, having purchased it we ...

... the other things that gives Visby its name, a ruin. S:t Olof is small and almost completely hidden by trees in the corner of the Botanical Garden. It was a little on the small side, and a part of the feeling of it was kind of ruined by the fact that the people at the botanical garden were using it for storage of chairs and other yard-working equipment.

From here we were within a short walk to most of the other ruins in town. After making a ...

... of the castle was destroyed in a fire, all except the north wall, which has been changed drastically on the outside. This was the first time I had been in this museum, and it was very interesting to see what the castle was like when the old one was standing. They had a lot of (burned) items that survived the fire, and just a lot of stuff about what life was like back then. It was very well done, I really enjoyed it.

After that we went into Gustav III's Museum of ...

... er så like og samtidig ulike. På vaskerommet traff jeg ei jølsterjente, verden er ikke så stor, men vi begge glade for at vi ikke møtte så mange norske på Campingen. Nå skal vi ha middag og etterpå skal forteltet ned slik at vi kan komme i veg i morgen tidlig. Da skal vi på "High Chaparral" hvor kryttrøyken ligger tett. -Bente

Da var nesten alle kluter og håndduker skitne og vasking stod på programmet. Med lomma full av 5-kroner drog vi iveg til vaskeriet med paser og kasser med klær. Etter hvert fikk vi igang 3 maskiner med vask. Det var den kapasiteten vaskeriet hadde. Køen var ikke så lang som ventet på tur. Alt ble hengt opp rundt campingvogna og etter noen timer var alt tørt. En vellykket dag med etterfølgende tur på byen

... sier. Det fikk ikke vi og jeg har klaget. Etteret par stopp kjørte vi rett til Kapelludden Camping i Borgholm på Öland for å komme fram tidligst mulig for vi hadde ikke bestilt plass. Fikk plass 620. Ikke ta plass i dette området, da sanit ...

... trotz andauerndem Regen nicht nehmen. Nach dem Frühstück brechen wir auf nach Oskarshamn ins Döderhultar-Museum. Hier sind über 200 Skulpturen des Holzschnitzers Axel Petersson, geboren in der Gemeinde Döderhult, ausgestellt. Nach Fish & Chips und der längsten Bank der Welt (haha!) fahren wir zurück zu Anna's Wohnung in Jönköping.

... a long weekend. I wish my hotel would have closed for a long weekend. So then we walked over to the train station to see if they had any times. Would you believe that they have a train station with tracks but no trains actually go there anymore. So there we were, stranded in this small town with no idea of how to get out of town. We walked back to the ferry station and asked the ticket girl and she said that there was a bus to Berga and then we could take the train to Linkoping and then ...

... out that is Swedish for ice cream. So we sat down to have an ice cream cone before heading up to the castle. There are a number of reenactors there playing the roles of medieval people including knights and damsels all in period dress. As we came into the castle , we ran into a knight who asked if I would like to be knighted. I thought that was a good idea so I did it and I am ...