Nässjö Lövhult, Sweden - 24th August 2012
By: fam-united
Today we visited a small church in Nässjö. It is close to the camping site Lövhult and we had been lucky to get the key and be allowed to go inside the chapel.
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Posted Nov 14, 2012, 8:33 am
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Nässjö, Sweden - 24th August 2012
By: fam-united
Later we walked around the lake called Runnerydsjön in Nässjö. We met a lot of geese there.
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Posted Nov 14, 2012, 9:45 am
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Djuvanäs, Sweden - 25th August 2012
By: fam-united
Today we decided to walk around the lake LillNömmen, which is the lake in front of our house. We had to walk about four hours and came back home very tired. The weather was mixed, but mostly dry. We only had the chance to take two photos, but I hope, you will enjoy them.
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Posted Nov 14, 2012, 3:16 pm
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Kalmar, Sweden - 27th August 2012
By: fam-united
Today we enoyed a great day in Kalmar.
Kalmar is a city in Småland in the south-east of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010.
From the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, Kalmar was one of Sweden's most important cities. Between 1602 and 1913 it was the episcopal see of Kalmar Diocese, with a bishop, and the Kalmar Cathedral from 1702 is still a fine example of classicistic architecture. It became a fortified city, with the still mighty Kalmar Castle as the center. After the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, Kalmar's importance diminished, until the industry sector was initiated in the 19th century.
Geographically Kalmar is the main route to the island of Öland thanks to the Öland Bridge.
Later we visited Krustenstiernska Garden and had a picknick there. The first thing, that you see of the garden, is a high wooden wall and closed doors. But at 11am the doors were opened and everyone is allowed to come in. There are many tables and chairs and you just can sit down and eat things, that you brought with you.
After this rest we had a little sightseeing tour in Kalmar. We've seen the lighthouse and the cathedral inside and outside.
Interesting for us to see was, that in Sweden it is common to have a special corner for children, where they can sit and play. Two plushy guys invited us to sit on their table and told us a lot about their life in the cathedral.
Then we walked back to the parking place and had this wonderful view to the castle.
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Posted Nov 15, 2012, 3:02 pm
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Borgholm, Öland, Sweden - 28th August 2012
By: fam-united
The weather is fine, so we decided to drive to Öland to visit the old castle in Borgholm and the new palace Solliden.
At first we stopped at this place, but still aren't really knowing, what it is, because we don't understand Swedish.
Then we arrived at Borgholm castle. We were there for nearly three hours and walked back and forth and took many photos.
Because Solliden was still closed, we drove to the city then and enjoyed walking through the streets.
Solliden Palace is the summer residence of the Swedish Royal Family. Queen Viktoria let it build from 1903 to 1906. King Carl XVI. Gustaf inherited it as a four year old. The palace itself is closed, but during summer you can visit the palace garden, if the royal family isn't there.
This is the playhouse, in which once a gardener lived with his whole family.
This is the Italian Garden.
We enjoyed sitting on this bench and imagined Crown Princess Viktoria comes to meet us.
Then we drove to the coast on the east side. We've seen the big cross and the remains of a chapel.
These are the remains of St. Brita's Chapel, the largest chapel in Öland. Although associated with St. Bridget (Brigitta) the chapel was the Celtic St. Brigida to begin with. The chapel was 27 metres long and 12 metres wide and it was probably built on account of the growning numbers of visitors attracted by the market here at Sikavarp.
It was getting so cold and windy, that we hurried back into the car. Of course one sign we weren't allowed to miss while being in Sweden. See this one:
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Posted Nov 16, 2012, 2:52 pm
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Djuvanäs, Sweden - 30th August 2012
By: fam-united
Today is the second last day in Sweden. So we all decided to do things, that we wanted to do. Everyone had one wish. One wish was to go on Lilla Nömmen with the boad. We had a lot of fun paddling on our "home"lake.
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Posted Nov 17, 2012, 1:03 pm
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Copenhagen, Denmark - 31st August 2012
By: fam-united
In the early afternoon we left our Swedish house and started to drive home. We had decided to stay in Frederikssund in Denmark overnight.
On our way to Frederikssund we had to drive through Copenhagen or København (Danish pronunciation: [kʰøb̥m̩ˈhɑʊ̯ˀn], which is the capital of Denmark and its most populous city, with an urban population of 1,213,822 (as of 1 January 2012) and a metropolitan population of 1,947,944 (as of 1 October 2012). We had a short stop at the railway station. Wow, this is a big city, really crowded and we all were happy, when we had been out of the city again. Nevertheless it seemed, that there are some nice places, which would be worth to see one day.
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Posted Nov 17, 2012, 1:46 pm
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Frederikssund, Denmark - 1st September 2012
By: fam-united
We stayed over night at a motel in Frederikssund/Jaegerspris. It was a nice place. In the morning we had breakfast outside in front of our room.
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Posted Nov 21, 2012, 7:54 am
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Walsrode, Germany - 1st September 2012
By: fam-united
We are back in Germany and stayed one night at a hotel called Stadtschänke. The hotel is in Walsrode and there are several nice places around Walsrode as there are the Rischmannshof Heath Museum, the Walsrode Bird Park and Lüneburg Heath. Nevertheless we only were in the hotel, had dinner and fell in our bed as you can see. We slept all night and then drove home to Bruchsal again.
Oh, don't wonder about the little dirt on the pillow. It is no dirt, it is a piece of chocolate. One piece of chocolate for all of us. I'm sure, you can imagine, how it feels if you only receive chocolate as big as a flea, because we had to share it with our host, too.
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Posted Nov 23, 2012, 9:16 pm
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Karlsruhe, Germany - 3rd September 2012
By: fam-united
When we were at home again, we needed some time to relax, because it was a long travel. But today we had to go to Karlsruhe.
Karlsruhe is the third largest city of Baden-Württemberg, near the Franco-German border.
Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city-states. The town surrounding the Palace became the seat of two of the highest courts in Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht) whose decisions have the force of a law in many cases, and the Federal Court of Justice of Germany (Bundesgerichtshof), the highest court of appeals in matters of civil law and criminal law. It therefore considers itself the home of justice in Germany, a role taken over from Leipzig after 1945.
Washington's city planner, had been given the plans of Karlsruhe (among numerous other European cities) as an inspiration.
At first we visited the Bothnical Garden.
The Karlsruhe Palace (Schloss) is an interesting piece of architecture; the adjacent Schlossgarten includes the Botanical Garden with a palm, cactus and orchid house, and walking paths through the woods to the north.
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Posted Nov 28, 2012, 3:35 pm
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