Spent couple of days in Visby last week. All workrelated of course, but I had a good time. Met up with a collegaue one evening and had dinner at Surfers. Fantastic good food! An other evening I tried Wisby spa with a body peeling and a massage. Just what I needed.
Visby medieval city wall
Visby street
I actually have some knitting projects to show you. I have completed 4 items. Among them the green cardigan. :-) And a shawl. And a Baby sweater. And a pair of wrist warmers.
Due to work I had to fly over to Visby for a couple of days earlier this week. Stayed at Solhem hotel, just outside of the city wall. Since it was a work related trip, there where a lot of work - but I managed to meet up a friend for dinner on Tuesday. Spicey Indian food with lots of talk and laughter.
Early Wednesday morning I had time to take a walk around the town. A sunny morning with empty streets.
I also had time to buy some tea at my favorite tea shop - Kränku, I always try to make a visit while in Visby.
I will make this trip a couple of times in April & May. Just more work to do.
I just came back from a 2-day trip to Gotland. I had a work related work shop with 6 colleauges about Knowledge Management. Two intense day with lots of fun, food and work.
We stayed in the village of Tofta, about 20 minutes south of Visby, and very close to the beach. So after the dinner I walked down to the beach and saw an incredible sun set. These are the best photos from last evening.
An empty beach. It was really nice to walk around. But we also sat in the sand and just looked at the amazing view. Really, really nice.
Has been away on a trip with my lovely co-workers for 2 days. And it was really nice to go away and to do something else than sit next to your desk and work. Early Monday morning we all arrived to Visby airport, met up with our Visby colleagues and drove up to Fårösund and took the ferry to Fårö.
saw lots of them
ûber director ingmar bergman's tomb stone at fårö graveyard (with wife ingrid - and no, he was not married to actress ingrid bergman)
the landscape
We had a great time even though our trip was work related, but we had a good time as we always has together. And since I haven't been at work since late june, it was really, really fun to meet up with everybody. And the weather was lovely. Arrived back in Stockholm earlier this evening. Tired but happy!
I had a marvelous mini break in Visby. On Wednesday afternoon I had a lunch and job meeting with my colleagues in Visby, but the rest of my stay was just times to relax. I stayed at a colleague's apartment (he was in Stockholm) just outside the medieval city wall. After the meeting I left my suitcase at the apartment, walked down to the town center with my camera and snapped some pictures.
saint katarina's ruins in visby
I met up with my colleague's (and friends) Sandra & Daniel for a dinner and a couple of beers at Black Sheep Arms (the only true British pub in Visby) - and later Michael joined us. Fish & Chips was on the menu and of course I had to order it. It was a great evening, and we had time to catch up the latest gossip from work and otherwise!
Black Sheep Arms @ St Hansgatan
Woke up early on Thursday - despite the late night before, and just before 10 I left the apartment to seach for a cup of coffee. Thursday was a holiday, so it could be diffecult to find a café open, but I had no problems, the tourist season has just begun in Visby so more and more cafés are open. After my coffee I walked around - on pretty much empty streets - and enjoyed the sun and a ice cream from Visby glass
the Visby cathedral, St Maria
If you like ruins, Visby is the place to be. Visby has ten medieval ruins (St Nicolai, St Gertrud, Helige And, St Drotten, St Klemens, St Olof, St Lars, St Per, St Hans and St Katarina), of churches inside of the city wall. Visby is arguably the best-preserved medieval city in Scandinavia and has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among the most notable historical remains are the 3.4 km long stone wall called Ringmuren (the Ring Wall - the city wall), that encircles the city and the old church ruins.
st hans and st per is now a café, and looks so beautiful this time of the year
I did some shopping, not much but some. I choose not to buy yarn (GASP!) even though I touched yarn in diffrent stores. I bought some tea at Kränku's (as I always do when in town). And I bought some sweets to give away in a swap. And on Friday I needed to buy an umbrella. It was pouring down but it cleared up til noon.
Just before my depature I meet up with Sandra, Daniel & Michael to have a coffee and a Saffron pancake - a Gotlandish speciality. Oven made pancake with saffron and rice pudding, served with whiped cream and salmbärs jam.
saffron pancake
I'm leaving the city for a couple of days. I will be back on Saturday! I'm going to Visby for a meeting today, but the rest of my trip will be just time to relax.
Now I need to finish my packing!
Yesterday morning I left my flat early to take a bus to my nearest the airport, Bromma. About an hour later I arrived, with two colleagues, at Visby airport. A crisp and absoultly blue sky welcomed us to the island of Gotland.
the ruins in visby are famous, this is st karins ruin
The Archive and the Library wanted to show our service to our colleauges in Visby, and show them we have a service to them despite the distans to the record hall and the book shelves. And it was a joy to meet up with our colleauges in Visby!
I talked about the Archive service we have. We are more the happy to scan or copy at their command. I told them about our online services: the photo database KMB and to our blueprint database and to our catalouge over our records. (And by the way - have you seen this ? I was not involved in this, but some of my colleauges!)
We were busy the whole day, but we had a chance to stroll through Visby and before we took the cab to the airport we had a great dinner at Bakfickan. A lovely day!
The island of Gotland has about 92 medieval churches. During my trip to Gotland I saw two of them. Anga and Dalhem.
anga
Anga Church is from 13th century. It's one of the smallest church on Gotland. And the medieval paintings are the most preservde mural paintings on the island.
the older paintings
The oldest mural paintings is from 13th century and the younger is from 15th century.
the younger paintings are showing the life of Jesus.
dalhems church, part of the doorway
Dalhem is another medieval church, on of the biggest churches on the island. But between 1899- 1914 they did some major work on this church, and made new paintings, to look like medieval paintings and destroyed the real medieval ones.
The medieval windows in Dalhems church.
On Friday morning we had breakfast at the hotel - Hamnhotellet. And after breakfast we were divided in 7 groups. Every group was walking off or driving off in buses in different directions. My group headed to the east side of the island. Our first stop was at Roma Kloster - Roma Abbey ruins.
the ruins of roma abbey
The Abbey was founded 1163 by Cistercian monks from the Nydala Abbey in Småland (on the mainland Sweden). The governing abbey was Clairvaux in France. The abbey became a religious and agricultural centre for the region around the Baltic sea. It was a prosperous time for Roma.
With the reformation, 1530s, the abbey was abandoned and was resigned into the Danish Crown's(Gotland was part of Denmark at this time) ownership. When Gotland became Swedish 1645, the abbey was in a very sad state and when the Governor began to build a new residence at Roma, he took the stones from the abbey and put in the abbey doorways in the new buildings.
the (former) govonor residence, roma kungsgård
During the 1930, 1940s the area become in the hands of the military, they left in the 1970s. Nowdays you can see theatre in ruins. Every summer a Roma theatre companysets up an Shakespeare play and it's very popular. In the former residence you can find a crafts and arts shop and in one of the buildings next to the residencet you can find the Roma Glasbruk.
Click on the photo's to come to my Flickr page for more Gotland.
Last Thursday and Friday was spent on the beautiful island of Gotland, in the Baltic Sea. Since October 1st my company has an office on the island, in the town of Visby and the trip was kick off the new office and to visit our colleauges who has moved from Stockholm to Visby. It was great to see the gang in Visby and to see the new office.
the great hall at artillerigatan in visby, before the party begins
Later in the evening we had a party, about 500 guests, great food and great band playing, Bacchi Bröder - photo below.
Even later that evening we ended up at one of the classic Visby joints - Munkkällaren . It looks the same as it did when I was here the first time in 1991 (?).
...and look who is standing in the bar...
Next post will be more about this trip. See 'ya.
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