Personal Museum Tour Wow, how fortunate you were to get your very own personal tour of this museum. I imagine you indeed got to learn much more from the owner himself. I enjoy off-the-beaten-track locations, so I'm sure I would have loved this too. Nostalgia often brings back lovely memories ?
Miscellaneous Sweden Once again we've enjoyed following along on your travel. You continue to give us ideas of things to see when we visit your country.
Täby church is worth visiting Täby church is a true highlight, one that has totally gone under the radar for me until last year. It is quite simple to visit it from Stockholm. The rest of the places in that blog are just random nice places that there are thousands of in Sweden. /Ake
How it should be I watch in horror the barbarity of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and this sublime pic from a country not far from the conflict brings it into high relief and could not be a greater contrast. Just saying.
We were in Ukraine in 2009 We traveled in Ukraine four weeks in 2009. It is sickening to follow the news from the places we visited back then. People I talked to then are now engaged in a war. /Ake
I loved those frescoes The frescoes in Täby church are very well preserved. Possibly the best preserved anywhere by Albertus Pictor. And he painted quite a few churches in Sweden in his lifetime. /Ake
Place Names I know exactly what you mean, Ake. It only dawned on me a couple of years ago that the name "Newcastle" came from the fact that when it was named, the English had just built a "new castle" there, lol...!
Chainsaw Sculptures and Wolf Island These are very interesting. I saw quite a few on recent travels in Scotland and Ireland. The name "Wolf Island" also sounds cool - great that you were able to visit places you weren't able to last time.
On the name "Wolf Island" A funny thing about the name "Wolf Island". The word meaning "Wolf" in the name is an older way to name the animal. I knew of the meaning, but when I refered to the animal I mostly used the more modern name for it. The name of the island I've heard many times in my life. To me that's the name of the island. Just like you probably see "Hull" as a name of a town and something totally unrelated to the bottom of a boat. I didn't make the connection of the name "Wolf Island" to the animal wolf until I wrote that blog. So when I took the photo of the wolf statue (this is embarrassing) I had not made the connection yet. Sometimes I am very slow on catching up on the simplest things... /Ake
We agree completely These small quirky museums are often the best. Thanks for taking us along. We visited a barbed wire museum in Texas and it was amazing. Eager to read about the one you plan to go to next year. My uncle was an executive at Texaco so it was fun looking at these items. The museum of Death & the Museum of Broken Relationships are worth visiting in LA. There is a very cool Pez museum in Burlingame, CA. Happy travels.
Those museums sound interesting I think we already knew of one of those museums. The others are new to us. I have copied links to them and if we are around any of them we'll try to schedule a visit. /Ake
Petrol museum Cool!! I too enjoy these types of museums. There’s a flour museum in Minneapolis and a sex museum in Shanghai. Both are fascinating! Thanks for sharing the petrol museum.
We love hearing of other theme museums Thank you for the recommendations on other theme museums. I will look them up on internet and we might try to visit them one day. /Ake
Beautiful Sweden! Wow! There are some seriously impressive places and photos here Ake, Northern Sweden looks wild and stunning! An inspiring read, the hiking and waterfalls look amazing ?
Not the most inspiring blog post I think That blog post was perhaps less inspiring than some of the others we've written. We had lots of fun those days, but it doesn't really come out in the photos. We are happy that you enjoyed reading it anyway and thanks for telling us. /Ake
On travelling in north Sweden Two things worth knowing about traveling in north Sweden are:
1 You need a car. Without it you can pretty much only visit the major towns and cities.
2 The distances between places are most often greater than in south. You have to be prepared for driving for hours.
/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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Personal Museum Tour
Wow, how fortunate you were to get your very own personal tour of this museum. I imagine you indeed got to learn much more from the owner himself. I enjoy off-the-beaten-track locations, so I'm sure I would have loved this too. Nostalgia often brings back lovely memories ?