Visit to Ven

Sater to Stockholm travel July 2019 (NB! If you are new to blogspot then by clicking once on the picture it will enlarge and you can scroll through the pictures on their own) Copyright@ L D Breitholtz. All rights reserved So we are off to Sater, a small town in Dalarna, a region/landscape 1.5 hour drive North West of Stockholm. Thanks to motorway a large part of the drive we managed the 360 miles in 7 and a bit hours including a lunchbreak. My farther's family has strong links to the area and although we did not live there we spent many a summer there. My grandfarther managed an ironore mine at Bispberg, 4 miles outside Sater. As we were ahead of time we called by Vikmanshyttan where we used to have a summer house . The new owners have removed the tall hedge and a few apple trees and are in the process of putting their own stamp on the house. Rightly so.                                 ...

Island of Ven (Note. If new to blogspot by clicking once on a picture it will enlarge and you can flick through the pictures on their own) Copyright@L D Breitholtz. All rights reserved. We have now been in Sweden nearly 4 weeks. The initial chores are done, i.e. strimming/cutting the grass, cleaning and treating all the decking, touch up paint work, repairing cellar door etc Time for relaxation.  So it is a Monday 24 June and we are off to the Swedish island of Ven situated in the straits between Sweden and Denmark.. Apart from being a beautiful island (as we discovered) it is mainly known for the 2 observatories created in the between 1576 and 1596 by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. The island became Swedish 1658. It is approximately 6km long. Wikipedia says 371 people live there throughout the year. The island of Ven from the ferry as we leave Landskrona harbour Arriving at Backviken's harbour We were going there with Anders...