Friday, June 16, 2006
Day7
Visby - Sweden
Forecast:partly cloudy/light showers
Currency:Swedish Krona
Language:Swedish
We had to wait to get on the ship tenders (lifeboats) to take them over to Visby.
It was sort of a mess. Visby is such a small island the boat did not dock, but anchored a mile out. We took the tenders to shore. Which was an adventure! We were thankful Carl had his seasick patch! There were only a few times, when we could really fel the ship moving.
Visby is one of the older towns in Sweden. Sweden was neautral in WWII so it's buildings and cathedrals were untouched. However, they did have means to protect themselves if they ever were invaded by the Germans.
We walked around the town in little over an hour. Not much shopping there, except expensive jewlery from the town merchants. The Ruins of St Peter were amazing. Thats the castle ruins you see. Then the church Saint Katarina is very simple but very pretty - mom we took pictures of the stain glass for you! I LOVED it! It was soo simple but so pretty.
They have a botanical gardens, that is beautiful, that was were all the traffic was so we didn't go all the way in.Carl loves the UTFART signs which mean exit!
Visby evening was also our last formal. I was kinda sad. We have had such a good time with Bob, Kathy, (Tenn), Jannette and Skip (Tampa Florida) and Marie (Kentucky!). They were a riot! They said how great it was to have a table you enjoy. That doesn't happen very often. We were soo glad!! They are frequent cruisers. Jannette and Skip got medallions for over 100sea miles! They are friends with Bob and Kathy but Marie fit right in with us too. We got the impression she was widowed.
Our table was always the last ones to leave the dining room. I will post the formal pictures seperate, because there are too many of them too. I hope I don't run out of blog space. This is only a fraction of the pictures too.
Visby - Sweden
Forecast:partly cloudy/light showers
Currency:Swedish Krona
Language:Swedish
We had to wait to get on the ship tenders (lifeboats) to take them over to Visby.
It was sort of a mess. Visby is such a small island the boat did not dock, but anchored a mile out. We took the tenders to shore. Which was an adventure! We were thankful Carl had his seasick patch! There were only a few times, when we could really fel the ship moving.
Visby is one of the older towns in Sweden. Sweden was neautral in WWII so it's buildings and cathedrals were untouched. However, they did have means to protect themselves if they ever were invaded by the Germans.
We walked around the town in little over an hour. Not much shopping there, except expensive jewlery from the town merchants. The Ruins of St Peter were amazing. Thats the castle ruins you see. Then the church Saint Katarina is very simple but very pretty - mom we took pictures of the stain glass for you! I LOVED it! It was soo simple but so pretty.
They have a botanical gardens, that is beautiful, that was were all the traffic was so we didn't go all the way in.Carl loves the UTFART signs which mean exit!
Visby evening was also our last formal. I was kinda sad. We have had such a good time with Bob, Kathy, (Tenn), Jannette and Skip (Tampa Florida) and Marie (Kentucky!). They were a riot! They said how great it was to have a table you enjoy. That doesn't happen very often. We were soo glad!! They are frequent cruisers. Jannette and Skip got medallions for over 100sea miles! They are friends with Bob and Kathy but Marie fit right in with us too. We got the impression she was widowed.
Our table was always the last ones to leave the dining room. I will post the formal pictures seperate, because there are too many of them too. I hope I don't run out of blog space. This is only a fraction of the pictures too.
