Blogs from Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Europe - page 10

Building Älvsborg fortress (Oscar II) started 1899 and it was combat operational in 1907. The fort is blasted into the bedrock and surrounded by a fast grave with two 'kontereskarpgallerier'. Armament consisted of two 24 cm guns, two 15.2 cm cannons in armored towers, four 57 mm cannons, armored cupola and a number of 'kaponjär' cannons. Hammarkullen Carnival is the biggest and the most colourful cultural street carnival in Sweden. The carnival started in 1974 as a local festival, organized by the Latin-Americans from Chile and Bolivia living in the north-eastern part of Gothenburg in Sweden.... read more

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First picture is a taster for the sunsets at the end....make sure you get there.... March 25th is Tranedagen - 'Cranes' day in this part of Sweden (100 miles NE of Göteborg). It celebrates the coming of Spring signified by the arrival of the crane on their journey North after wintering in Spain. At the beginning of the week there were 40 crane, on Friday there were 5,100 (they count them as they fly off on an evening). By next weekend there will be about 15,000 and by mid April, they will have flown further North. Check out the webcam http://www.webbkameror.se/djurkameror/hornborgasjon/index.php... read more

In the morning walked around the island of Stora Amundon and then in the afternoon had lunch and a walk around Oxsjon lake.... read more

Flying into Gothenburg we flew over frozen lakes and green forests, a scenery quite spectacular in its own right. Touching down, we had one of the fastest exits from an airport ever, from landing, to customs, to outside the airport and on to the bus to the city… all up about 15 minutes and we didn’t stop in a queue once. Think this may JUST have beaten our speedy exit from Quito airport a few years back! A new record ;-) The airport bus was a quick 20minute drive down motorways lined with forests, lakes, charming lake houses and frozen waterfalls suspended down cliffs. And yet it was sunny! It was a crystal clear, sunny winter’s day – we even had to get out our sunglasses. Ten minutes into the city limits we arrived at the ... read more