Archive for the ‘Sweden’ Category

Langhammar Figure Rocks

November 18th, 2008 at 4:52 pm » Comments (27)

This is my absolute favorite rauk (sea stack) at Langhammar at Fårö, a small island above Gotland outside Sweden’s east coast in the Baltic Sea. You can see how big it is if you see the person to the lower right of the sea stack.
The Langhammar peninsula are a nature reserve on north-western Fårö with [...]

Old church with rune stones

November 17th, 2008 at 4:29 am » Comments (8)

We made a roadtrip some weekends ago to the Lovö Church, in the middle of Lovön, which is the island where even the Swedish Royal Court has it’s home, Drottningholm Palace.
This Church is actually the church we wanted to have our own wedding in. We were so happy when we finally found a smaller [...]

Dona Nobis Pacem Nov 2008: Non-Violence

November 6th, 2008 at 12:57 pm » Comments (42)

This is one of the non-violence sculptures created by the Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, at Sergelgatan, Stockholm City. It also stands in several other places of Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö.
The sculpture was unveiled by H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, the 4th of December 1995.
There were also an event in the evening, when [...]