We woke to morning light shining on the church bells in Visby. Some of the church bells. Visby has a beligerant amount of churches within its city walls. The most of any European city I think. The husband of the couple we are renting from said that it's because Visby was originally inhabited by a bunch of super rich families. And every family had their own church. It was a sign of prestige. In fact, they maintained the city wall to keep the farmers and other poor people out of the town! At least, that's what he said. Also that before it was part of Sweden, Visby itself functioned autonomously and the rest of the island was part of Denmark.
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| My foot has some nice coloring, don't you think? Day 7 of the sprain. |
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| View from the window |
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| Morning walk in Visby |
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| Cute graffiti |
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| A dog waiting outside the grocery store in the town square |
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| Per walking up the hill back to where we were staying |
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| The parking lot by us was right by the city wall, and also an adorable old fire station |
We visited Furillen limestone quarry on the north eastern end of Gotland.
Here is an interesting article about the workers' history of the place.
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| Limestone arch! |
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| We drove to Faro, or Sheep Island. We had to take another ferry, actually. It's always fun when you have to take a boat to get somewhere. We didn't spend much time here. It was cold and windy and my foot hurt. We drove out to this old fishing establishment, Helgumannens fisklage. More on that here. |
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| The fishing houses had these cool hooks made out branches. Seems repeatable! |
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| It really was out in the middle of nowhere! |
Per took some photos of the village. I can't wait to see them!
Most of the restaurants in Gotland were closed for Christmas break, but there was one crepe place that, amazingly, had vegan crepes! So we got a very tasty dinner out!
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