Fishing boat in the Baltic Sea near Angelholm, Sweden.
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Next time you get near the Baltic, take a ferryboat over to the Isle of Gotland, on which is a complete 1300s walled city called Visby.
ReplyDeleteIt was the trading hub of the Hanseatic League, back in the day. City is still walled; no sprawl outside the wall. Tiny, tiny place, and the wall is completely intact. Makes its own beer (not bad).
I stayed in a bed-and-breakfast just inside the wall at the high end of the city, and you could look out over it to the ancient harbor from the windows. Definitely off the beaten track; definitely worth the visit; best on warm days.
I think that Swedish movie-maker guy (Ingmar Bergman, like) used Visby extensively in the film "Wild Strawberries." If you've seen it, Visby will seem familiar. Outside of Visby, the rest of the island is, or was, used for military target practice. But they use US-made smart bombs, so there's no need to worry, right?
Yea, yea, I know; just ask the next Iraqi, Afghani or Palestinian (in bomb-central, the Gaza Gulag) you meet just what they think of the so-called "accuracy" of our so-called "smart bombs." I keep wondering why the Israelis don't just use Zyclon B and finish the genocide they've been working so hard at from 1949 onwards (even before, come to think of it).
This "Here a bomb, there a bomb, everywhere a bomb, bomb" stuff is just like Chinese water drop torture--only the water drops are like nitro-glycerin. Or just nuke 'em and be done with it. Who'd dare attack Israel when your Big Uncle Sam is right in the neighborhood, and will be for the next 50 years AT LEAST!?
And even though Uncle Sam is now broke, a deadbeat, he still has tons and tons of nukes. Or he could just bomb you with the millions of useless Humvees the US troops have been dying in for going on six years now, come March 19th, 2009.
But I digress. On a happier note, even though the guide books mention them, the climbing roses are really something to see. A most incredibly deep and vibrant red. Better than any alizarin crimson or cadmium red I've ever seen.