We had a busy evening last night with an alumni party, a good dinner and then we went to the evening program which was a "mentalist" vs a magician. I don't usually like acts like this but he was really good! So we got to bed pretty late but didn't wake up until they dropped anchor this morning at 7:30. That is a noisy process -- we are not docking but those going ashore will go by tender. My plan is to do a couple of loads of laundry and Bob is going over to do his own walking tour of
Visby. So he will write the info about what he saw.
Since I went later in the morning there was only one other passenger; a tour guide who had lived in
Visby fifteen years - so I had personal q. & a. time with her during the ten minute tender ride to shore.
Visby has been inhabited since the Stone Age and later the Vikings, and is now the best-preserved medieval city in Scandinavia. This is
Almedalen park. A beautiful, sunny day in the seventies and there were university students sun bathing everywhere.
The town is encompassed by a two mile plus stone wall (
Ringmutten - Ring Wall) with 44 towers, like this one. I strolled along this outer wall for quite some distance before entering one of the many gates to meander through a beautiful botanical garden and the cobblestone streets.
The ruins of 12 cathedrals still stand in tribute to a glorious past. All were sacked and burned in 1525 during
Visby merchants feud with
Lubeckers (now Germany).
Another of the cathedral ruins in which I walked.
We had a busy evening last night with an alumni party, a good dinner and then we went to the evening program which was a "mentalist" vs a magician. I don't usually like acts like this but he was really good! So we got to bed pretty late but didn't wake up until they dropped anchor this morning at 7:30. That is a noisy process -- we are not docking but those going ashore will go by tender. My plan is to do a couple of loads of laundry and Bob is going over to do his own walking tour of Visby. So he will write the info about what he saw. 
Since I went later in the morning there was only one other passenger; a tour guide who had lived in Visby fifteen years - so I had personal q. & a. time with her during the ten minute tender ride to shore. Visby has been inhabited since the Stone Age and later the Vikings, and is now the best-preserved medieval city in Scandinavia. This is Almedalen park. A beautiful, sunny day in the seventies and there were university students sun bathing everywhere.
The town is encompassed by a two mile plus stone wall (Ringmutten - Ring Wall) with 44 towers, like this one. I strolled along this outer wall for quite some distance before entering one of the many gates to meander through a beautiful botanical garden and the cobblestone streets.
The ruins of 12 cathedrals still stand in tribute to a glorious past. All were sacked and burned in 1525 during Visby merchants feud with Lubeckers (now Germany).
Another of the cathedral ruins in which I walked.
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