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A Trip to the Isle of Gotland, Sweden July 2001 
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Lergravsvik, Gotland
© Ole Jacobi July 2001
Sunday 15 July 2001
Our goal today is Slite on the East coast where we have booked a room for
the night. Wisdom has it that the third day is always the hardest, and
certainly we are a little slow today. We’ve also got the wind against us
most of the way, but otherwise the weather is fine with only a few drops
of rain. These fall while we’re inside Hellvi church, one of the
pilgrim churches on the pilgrim route across Gotland from the East coast
where some saint alighted in medieval times to Visby. But before that,
at the start of the day’s journey, we visited Bunge church with some wonderful
frescoes from the 14th C. A jolly organist told us about the church organ,
a fine example of a Baroque organ and gave us a taste of its music.
The landscapes we pass through today following "Gotlandsleden" are
mostly mixed woodlands alternating with farm country. Slite, when we reach
it, turns out to be dominated by an enormous cement works with its own
harbour. I imagine the hotel mostly serves visitors to the works, as it
does not advertise itself, and no tourists are in sight ? but very nice,
with a small kitchen where we can make our own breakfast.
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