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A Trip to the Isle of Gotland, Sweden July 2001 
.dansk
Gunpowder magazine, Visby, Gotland
© Ole Jacobi July 2001
Friday 13 July 2001
Today we’re up early to get a good start, and eat our breakfast on a bench
overlooking the Baltic in marvellous weather. The wind is still strong
from the SW, and we take the marked cycle path that goes around Gotland,
the "Gotlandleden" which will take us most of the way to our destination.
The first part of the way is through woods with many small summer houses
between the trees. Then we go through farming country with many small farms
along the way. We pass several churches, and at Stenkyrka church, there’s
a café connected to the church which comes at a very opportune moment,
when a heavy shower threatens. Coffee and buns at Stenkyrka parish hall,
and then it’s out in the rain which never stops for the next couple of
hours. You don’t notice so much of the landscape when it rains, it’s just
battling through the weather. But everything is very green, and the roadsides
explode with wild flowers, mostly blue, perhaps because of the chalky underground
which covers all Gotland, and which has been mined for centuries and exported
all over Scandinavia. We visit several beautiful old churches on our way,
not just to get out of the rain, but also to admire some marvellous carvings
in the local stone and the many frescos. Finally the rain stops for the
last 20 kms, so that we arrive in a fairly dry condition at Fårösund,
where a nice hotel room awaits us. No trouble sleeping tonight!
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