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2017 Gefle Metal Festival crowd
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Posts tagged sweden
Denmark and Sweden
July 2016 from Christiansborg Palace
Maybe it’s not too rare to see two countries in one photo, but these two don’t even share a border.
Denmark is in the foreground, the island Saltholm is in the middle of the Øresund, and Sweden (with Malmö’s distinctive Turning Torso) is in the distance.
Uppsala Cathedral
Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden
Home of Watain
Boat hotel in Stockholm
Sleep on a 19th Century ship (af Chapman) in the Stockholm harbor? Yes, please. Unfortunately, it was booked so I stayed in the former army barracks next to the ship, now a hostel. That was the last time I will stay in a hostel. I’m way too old for that, but the views were amazing.
Fun fact, this ship’s maiden voyage (1888) went from England to Portland, Oregon.
After midnight in the summer in Northern Sweden
Gävle, Sweden (July 2017)
I’ve experienced about 10 summer nights in Northern Sweden, when the night never gets fully dark. I was probably on a bike, on my way back to my Airbnb, when I saw this scene and thought, “If I don’t take a photo of this, I’ll never remember it.” And, sure enough, I don’t really remember taking this photo, but it showed up as my random, desktop image today.
As we are currently near the winter solstice, I looked up the number of hours of daylight in Gävle right now. The answer? Less than six and I bet the sun won’t be getting very high in the sky during those six.
Uppsala Old Cemetery
Uppsala Gamla Kyrkogård (Sweden – July 2019)
The professor (also a children’s doctor) has had a fairly recent burial for such an old cemetery. Also, it’s always interesting to see the uniqueness of a different country’s cemetery. This one had a zen vibe to it.