My Does Time Fly

So life around here moves at exponential speeds sometimes. When we have our community meetings at the end of each week, it is often hard to recall all the wonderful experiences from the week. Of course you would think that would give me a lot to blog about... yes it should... but time becomes a factor as well as internet access. We have not had good luck recently where we live with a consistent signal. So tonight I am staying up late to at least give you the last week... there were many cool things the week before including a visit to the Swedish TV Studios, but alas I don't want to bore you too much.

Last week we visited Gotland, Sweden. We took a large ferry across the Baltic and we stayed in a former prison which is now a hostel. The rooms were ok, but walking outside to get to a bathroom was not the most fun. :P

The countryside was beautiful and you can see why people flock here in the summertime. Of course since the clocks were turned back the day before we left - yes Europe changed Oct 31st - it started getting dark pretty early.

It is only 16:28

Now it is 17:12

We started with a great early evening tour of Visby the old walled medieval city. Over the days there we checked out the local history museum where we saw old picture rune stones that showed that Vikings did not wear horned helmets. We raced “gotlandsruss” the special Gotlandic horse around a court with sulkies. Andrew came in 1st with Brad in 2nd.

We also saw many, many, many churches from the road and went into one and Janne our guide treated us to some beautiful songs. The acoustics were wonderful.

We even got to see the beautiful site where Ingmar Bergman is buried in Faro.

Then, the rain stopped to allow us to spend some time at the beautiful sea stacks.

Loving Pano on my iPhone

We had late lunch at a beautiful little hotel in Furillen and then made our way back to town seeing a few more sights along the way.

The last day was spent on a bike tour followed by lunch at the local university and Gotlandic games before taking the ferry back to Stockholm.  A good time was had by all and it was nice to see another part of the country.