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A Trip to the Isle of Gotland, Sweden July 2001 
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Fårø seen from Fårøsund, Gotland
© Ole Jacobi July 2001
Saturday 14 July 2001
Breakfast is served at a nearby café, and afterwards we take the
small, free of charge, ferry to Fårö which we now have the whole
day to explore. The Gotlandsleden takes us in a south-easterly direction
through a landscape with scattered trees of many kinds, and at one point
we are led to the "English Cemetery" where a contingent of English marines
are buried who died of cholera in 1854 at the time of the Crimean War,
when there was a French-British naval station in Gotland. Later on, at
Bunge Church, we notice the grave of another English cholera victim, Lt.
Thomas of a British naval ship in 1854. Officers’ graves are not quite
so anonymous as the mens’.
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