Summer road tripping - part 2 :-)
After a lovely breakfast we made our way to a stunning white sandy beach for a walk, blue sky, sun, white sand and good company. What more could you ask for?
After a lengthy morning stroll along the beach we ended up at Glimmingehus. It was built 1499-1506, during an era when this part of Sweden was Danish. It had heaps of defensive arrangements such as parapets, false doors and dead-end corridors, 'murder-holes' for pouring boiling pitch over the attackers, moats, drawbridges
and various other forms of death traps to surprise trespassers and
protect the nobles against peasant uprisings. The lower part of the
castle's stone walls are 2.4 meters thick.
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| naughty boy |
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| Fish in the mote |
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| Awesome vaulted ceiling |
This area is full of grain farms. It was harvesting time when we were there and some harvesters were working all through the night. Below is a relic of a windmill. I enjoy looking at their shapes.
From here it was off to Swedens version of Stonehenge, or Ales stenar. It is a megalithic monument in the shape of a stone ship,
oval in outline, with the stones at each end markedly larger than the
rest. It is 67-metres long formed by 59 large boulders, weighing up to
1.8 tonnes each.They date back to about 1,400 years ago or towards the end of the Nordic Iron Age. It was blowing a proper gale and there were hundreds of people there (my pet hate when visiting places) so we
WILL return (probably in the March (when it is too chilly for the masses) to enjoy the equinox).
We then ventured onto Ystad for another fika break :-)
summer vacation is just such hard work :-) This is a really lovely quaint town. It is full of narrow streets that meet at odd angles. I haven't seen or read the fictional detective stories about Kurt Wallander, by Henning Mankell but this is the city where they are set. They had a hat shop. We spent a bit of time in the hat store and again I was reminded that I have a very small head!
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After a lengthy morning stroll along the beach we ended up at Glimmingehus. It was built 1499-1506, during an era when this part of Sweden was Danish. It had heaps of defensive arrangements such as parapets, false doors and dead-end corridors, 'murder-holes' for pouring boiling pitch over the attackers, moats, drawbridges
and various other forms of death traps to surprise trespassers and
protect the nobles against peasant uprisings. The lower part of the
castle's stone walls are 2.4 meters thick.
From here it was off to Swedens version of Stonehenge, or Ales stenar. It is a megalithic monument in the shape of a stone ship,
oval in outline, with the stones at each end markedly larger than the
rest. It is 67-metres long formed by 59 large boulders, weighing up to
1.8 tonnes each.They date back to about 1,400 years ago or towards the end of the Nordic Iron Age. It was blowing a proper gale and there were hundreds of people there (my pet hate when visiting places) so we WILL return (probably in the March (when it is too chilly for the masses) to enjoy the equinox). 
We then ventured onto Ystad for another fika break :-) summer vacation is just such hard work :-) This is a really lovely quaint town. It is full of narrow streets that meet at odd angles. I haven't seen or read the fictional detective stories about Kurt Wallander, by Henning Mankell but this is the city where they are set. They had a hat shop. We spent a bit of time in the hat store and again I was reminded that I have a very small head!
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