Sweden Bohuslan and Gotland

Summer 2005

My husband works in Sweden this year, so we agreed that I would spend my vacation in Sweden. We travelled from Holland by car to Sweden and in this article we let you join our trip.

To be continued....

View from our hotel in Denmark
Coming from Holland, destination Sweden, we stopped in Denmark in Fredericia....

View from our hotel in Denmark

Ferry Frederikshavn - Göteborg
After a good nights sleep, we drove to Frederikshavn and waited there for the...

The house in Lysekil
The company where my husband is working provided him with this nice house.

Orust
In the first week, my husband had to work. I took some nice...

Orust

View from our hotel in Växjö
The next week we went to Gotland. You can reach the island only by...

Roma Kloster
The first day we went to Roma. A small town with a famous kloster.

Roma Kloster
The kloster was founded in 1164 by Cistercian monks from the Nydala Abbey in...

Roma kloster
With the reformation the abbey was abandoned. It was resigned into the Danish...

Roma kloster
Agriculture nowadays, near the kloster.

Roma Kloster
A nice view on the fields near Roma Kloster.

Roma Kloster
These days, Roma Kloster is a point of interest for tourists. Traditional...

Roma church
Gotland has 103 churches, mostly built between 1100 and 1350. We visited the...

Roma church: Bell Tower
The Bell Tower (on the graveyard near the church) was brought by people of...

Mill
On tuesday we decided to go south. On the way I had to .., so we tried...

Hoburgen
Finally we were in Hoburgen. There should be a 4,5 m Raukar. (The lime stone...

Hoburgen
However, we liked the quiet place and the marvellous views.

Hoburgen
There even was a kind of ruin, to remind us of the old days of Gotland.

Hamra Hamburgers
On our way back, we looked for a nice restaurant to have lunch, but...

Visby
On wednesday we went to Visby. 500 years ago the town was the centre of the...

Visby
A defense wall with more than 50 towers surrounds the old stone houses and...

Visby
Within the wall, there are large numbers of small shops, restaurants,...

Visby
Visby is characterised by magnificent stone house architecture. Many...

Visby
You can see the ferry coming in.

Visby
200 medieval stone buildings have been preserved.

Visby
Did you know that the movies with Pippi Longstocking was filmed in Visby?...

Visby
Visby, "the City of Roses and Ruins,"

Visby
Parking is outside of the city.

Visby
A nice fountain and I!

Visby
Idyllic streets.

Visby
View on the citywall.

Visby
View on the wall.

Visby strand
Finally, on Visby strand, we discovered a raukar.

Lickarshamn 12m Raukar
On Thursday we drove north again. Our gain was Lickersham, where we wanted to...

Lickarshamn
Lickershamn showed us more than the Raukar, it was a oasis of peace!

Lickarshamn
A cosy fireplace for tourists.

Lickarshamn 12m raukar
The raukar, closer by!

Lickarshamn
Like paradise!

Lickarshamn
The little harbour.

Lickarshamn
Last view from Lickersham.

Bläse
From Lickershamn we drove to Kappelshamn and we rounded Kappelshamnsviken, a...

Between Medebys and Ar
We wanted to drive just along the bayside, and as you see, the sandy...

Bunge Open Air Museum
After a while we ended in Bunge. Bunge has an Open Air museum where...

Bunge
Fortunatedly we had lunch before in the garden of an old restaurant at...

Bunge
People were definitedly smaller these days, vene the chairs were very small.

Bunge
People lived, worked and slept in one room.

Bunge
Windmills are everywhere on Gotland, even at the museums ground.

Bunge
Now we are in the 1700 style.

Bunge
This room is very much like how people live nowadays. (1860)

Bunge
With all those sheep on the island, it's obvious people made there own wool.

Bunge
If you had to handle the bull, you could park him in this ingenious...

Bunge
The famous"picture stones" (a few times larger than a person,...

Church in Stånga
The marvel of the church are the magnificent portal and the huge...

Church of Stånga
The Holy Rood is reinstalled in the chancel arch, resting on a caned...

Visby
On Saturday we visited Visby again. This is another entry to the city.

Visby
One of Visby's nice little streets.

Visby
Maybe my father will make a painting of this beautiful street.

Visby St Marys Cathedral
St Marys Cathedral, originally built by German traders, is still a place of...

Visby St Marys Cathedral
Beautiful, it's a pity the sun didn't cooperate.

Visby Ruin
There are many ruins to be found in Visby. This is really the biggest,...

Visby
Goodbye Visby! Goodbye Gotland. We did enjoy our stay!

Havsbadsomradet Lysekil
After a week in Gotland it was very nice to see the beautiful tower of...

Gasthamn Lysekil
In summer the guestharbour is crowdy. In Lysekil are many tourists and...

Stangehuvud Lysekil
Ain't it beautiful?

Lysekil
The last three weeks of my vacation I'm spending at home. I make trips to...

Lysekil
In our garden there is always a sunny place! This is the terrace in the...

Lysekil
A nice view from the house to the fjord.

Lysekil
In the early morning I can sit in the sun on the top terrace.

Lysekil
Inside it's cosy too. I enjoy reading in the little blue chair in the...

Lysekil
Or cook a nice meal in the kitchen, while ....

Lysekil
my husband sorts out the laundry. That's the end of my vacation in...

article published 7/29/2005

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