Best Western Strand Hotel Visby

... her husband and 2 teenagers to stay at Innisfree for one year. The kids are now adults, Karin is halfway thru medical school in Gothenburg and Simon works as a bartender and disc jockey in a nightclub in Visby. Lena and Stig have a companionable separation and live across the street from each other. I was lucky to see everybody this visit. Lena was still on her summer holidays so we went for bike rides and lay on the beach and even went in for a swim in the Baltic. The days have been ...

... of what a lot of the ruins in the city looked like in their glory. I would have to say the most interesting display was a temporary one they had about punishment and executions in the medeival times. They had some bodies that they had uncovered under the gallows, and many detailed descriptions about different types of torture. They even had partial lists of people that had been punished, what they were punished for, and how they were punished. The ...

... annoying voice was sitting and fell asleep for the rest of the ride.

Once in Stockholm we decided that our time would best be spent in Gamla Stan and at the royal palace. We toured all of the museums located in the palace, and started out with the Royal Apartments. We picked the right time to go in there, at the same time as the changing of the guard. While everyone was converging outside, we got to wander around inside at our own leisure, not having to deal with ...

Today was our full day to spend at the family amusement park and campground called Kneippbyn, on the island of Gotland. This park includes a hotel, cabins, campgrounds, restaurants, mini golf, amusement park, and water park. It is located on the west shore of the island, just south of the port city Visby. Although it sounds like quite a big place, it was not as large as you might think, making all of the activities reasonably accessible. We got ...

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Wow - another busy day. This morning we got up and drove a couple hours to Oskarshamn in order to catch our ferry ride (3 hours) to the island called Gotland. We checked into our hotel and promptly got back into the car for another hour or so in order to explore the rock formations on the other side of the island. Surrounded by the Baltic Sea, it's been cool and windy - which is normal for this time of year. That doesn't stop the ...

... and got in cars to head down to Nasudden to see the wind farms. The area had over 100 turbines of all different sizes. It had been there since 1983 when the country started doing tests to see how effective wind turbines were in producing energy. We also learned that Sweden is building a large wind farm in the sea between Denmark and Sweden. That area should produce enough energy to light 60,000 ...

... to have white sand since we were in Portugal, and I would have loved it if it weren't for the snow jacket and freezing wind. We had planned to get the ferry back that afternoon, but it seemed so had all the 'students' that we had seen, so the ferry was booked out. Instead we opted for one the next morning at 7am! This has certainly been the earliest morning yet, damn schedule! Either way the sun is now shining, we are on our way to Stockholm and the journey continues. Miles so far: 3329

... was onto another ferry and the 3 hour ride to Gotland Island. In all it was about 24 hours of trains, buses, ferrys and waiting. It was all worth it once we arrived though. When we arrived on Gotland Island we quickly walked through the old town and got some food as it had been awhile since we had eaten anything substantial. We met a couple of girls while we were eating and they told us that everyone in Sweden had the weekend off for the ...

... early cause they were working on the tracks (makes me think of my trip to Austria), and we were to continue by bus... by the time we got all our **** on and got over to where the bus was, it was pulling away!!! we started chasing it, and thank goodness we caught it... so then we get into the ferry terminal not racing, not realizing that the ferry is now delayed because the train getting there was delayed... so they rush us through, they had to unlock a few doors ...

... for summer clothes Thursday and met Julia for lunch. Thursday night I went to Nar to watch Mattias's footbal game. Congratulations to my sister, Megan, on her graduation. What a terrible sister I am to not be there, eh? Heard from my job today, and I start waitressing on Thursday May the 25th and cooking on the Friday.