Walking through Gävle, Sweden’s Old Town (gamla stan)
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Copenhagen’s Stock Exchange Spire and The Balancing Act
The Danish sculptor, Jens Galschiøt, has created a number of balancing works of art that can be found in Copenhagen, Gothenburg, and Oslo.
In the background of today’s photo you can see the spire on Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange building (Børsen) featuring four dragons with their tails twisting towards the top and ending in a spear with three crowns representing The Kalmar Union between Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Despite numerous fires that have wiped out much of Copenhagen over the years, this is still the original from 1640.
Viking ship (Oseberg ship) in the Viking Ship Museum
From central Oslo you can catch a ferry over to Bygdøy to check out the Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy). There isn’t much in the museum except for three, original, viking ships. All three are very cool, but I like this one the best. Perhaps the finest find of the Viking Age, you can read more about the Oseberg ship here.
Approaching Flåm
Today’s random desktop image is this one. I took this photo out the window of the Flåm Railway train, a train ride I will never forget.
Greenland sunset
A couple weeks ago I showed a photo of the sunrise/sunset as I flew from the USA to Europe overnight near the Summer solstice. At one point on that plane, the wing perfectly blocked the sun from glaring up my window so I could take this picture. The land you see below the horizon is Greenland, partially covered in clouds or fog it appears.
An Oni (鬼) in Sweden
Tattooed Swedes enjoying the sun at the Getaway Rock Festival
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is set in Sweden. If you visit Sweden you’ll see a lot more than dragon tattoos though. I doubt anyone tracks these things, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Sweden has the highest per capita amount of tattoos. The largest tattoo conventions tend to happen in Sweden, in part, because of this.
The guy in the middle, adding a sunburn to his tattooed body, has a Japanese Oni on his back. Japan probably has the lowest per capita amount of tattoos in the world so it’s a bit ironic that Japanese things (like the kanji on the right guy’s left leg) are a frequent piece of tattoo art.