I see the bell tower is separate, likely because it was too heavy for the roof of the church? We have some of those here too, esp when churches were built by the settlers.
Positive Outcomes With COVID came people traveling in their home countries and introducing us to many things. I have got to get to Sweden as there so so many things to see that I wasn't aware of until I read these blogs this year. I may have to pick up a couple of those books.
And we've only been scratching the surface We have several blog entries from our vacation this summer that are waiting to be written. On top of that we could easily write many more blog entries from southern Sweden as well if we decided on making a trip there. /Ake
Indonesia What a great experience it might have been to see Komodo dragons!! For me, especially that reptiles are my favorite kind of animals. I plan to go there hopefully in a few years! I like that you include various elements in your account, the good and the bad, to give an authentic portrait of a place.
Astrid Lindgren Oh wow, I remember reading and loving the stories of Emil when I was young. I didn't realise they were written by Astrid Lindgren. What a lovely trip down memory lane this must have been for you, seeing the places that it seems you grew up with. Thanks for writing about this Ake ?
I was afraid of Emil's dad When I was a child and saw Emil on TV I was afraid of his dad. So, yes it really was a trip down memory lane to see the place where they shot the films and to see the tool shed Emil hid in when his father was angry. /Ake
Red houses I miss my trips to Sweden now that my son is living in Spain ( not complaining about that though) ... but thanks for reminding me about Pippi and Vimmerby and all the red wooden houses that I love.
Wonderful! I feel a bit embarrassed to say that the only work by Astrid Lindgren that I have previously heard of was "Pippi Longstocking", but I enjoyed learning about the other stories she wrote. Seeing the places and people which inspired her stories was quite wonderful even if some of them were the filming locations. Great post!
Tup Tim has been castrated… When I lived in Bangkok in the 1990s, this shrine was located closer to the canal, and it had hundreds (maybe thousands) of penises piled up everywhere. As this was/is a fertility shrine, the phalluses were placed there by people who wanted children. When I revisited in 2017, I learned they relocated the shrine, sanitized it, and kept a token few penises. It’s a shadow of its former self.
I'd have loved to see it in its former glory I would really have loved to see it when it was in its old location. That probably would have been more special. /Ake
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
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Lorraine Brecht
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