Thursday, July 24, 2008

Back West across the Baltic


Fjaugen island
barbecue with an old friend


the ''chef''

Gotland is alive during the summer and attracts the tourists from Stockholm. It is a quite place, laid back but also a little refuge for some wealthy people who bought old houses to spend their vacations.
The few islands on the Eastern Shore (Enholmen, Fjaugen, Bungör) are the most interesting in my opinion, as we rather be in isolated places, far from the ‘’summer crowd’’ which is not too overwhelming around here anyway. Since Klapedia I have been on the verge of an ear infection. I tried to cleanse it with apple cider vinegar hoping to stop the process, but too late. Soon, the pain started to be unbearable and I soon got some fever. A trip by bus to Visby, the capital of Gotland on the North East side was necessary. Visby is a walled city and the first historical interesting old town I have been visiting so far. Despite a visit to the emergency, the pain and a huge fatigue, I enjoyed walking along the harbor and the walls of the city. In Gotland we met two friends of Magnus, one coming by sailboat on a Laurin 28, 70 years old retired marine pilot and the other one an old schoolmate friend who lives in the island. Two nice occasions for barbecues.

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