Gotland 2010 – day 6

After a night at the easy spot by the motor cross track, we ate a quick breakfast and tried to get going early. The weather is cloudy and around 16 C, coldest morning this vacation. Slightly tired, but some coffee made it all better. Wheels up at around 9.15 and we drove towards, Balingbo church to pick of a cache and then to the Kvart Yvar cache. Then we set our sails to Visby and my cousin Anna.

We drove into Annas house and she had made breakfast/lunch for us. We sat and talked and planned the day and then we started walking towards town.

In Visby (Gotlands Capital), every year, on the 32 week of the year there is a Medival Fair in town. The whole city turns into the Medival Village that it has once been. People get dressed up and lots of new stores and booths are brought in from near and far. A giant party and let me tell you, it’s insanely visited! Instead of Gotlands 50,000 inhabitants, it’s 10 times as many people – at least! The atmosphere is amazing and it’s well worth visiting.

The rest of the day was spent in town and at the Fair. We walked around and enjoyed the atmosphere and the joyeus feeling. The people are great and it’s amazing to just walk around and look at all the time appropriate clothes and products.

So here follows a large amount of pictures from today… and you might as well get situated, because more will come…. =)

Medival villagers

Lunch at Gula Villan – The yellow cottage. A lovely Salami & Brie sandwich. A cute little café with a beautiful little garden.

A Dahlia in the Botanical Garden.

At the fair – lots of toys…

Time appropriate shoes.

Medival villagers – look at the amount of detail in their outfits.

A wench stirring burnt almonds.

There were insane amounts of booths with silver, gold, glas and Bronze rings. These at the Baby Snake both.

And lots of forged steel product – rings, napkin rings, votives, nails and lots more…

A bath barrel – be bathed by a young maiden was much more expensive than an old maid – and if soap was to be used you payed extra =)

The deserts of the times – candied apples, toffee lollies and fruits.

Lovely pottery – these, with dragons, made by Skuggspel.

A medival lord?

Then it was time for dinner – pita bread filled with grilled lamm and sallad. Very yummy! And for desert chocolate cake and a brown sugar cake.

We took our food and sat down outside the city walls – right by the ocean. The sun had come out to play and it was lovely just to sit there and enjoy the sun and the great company.

Then we started walking home – through the beautiful city of Visby. Via the Gad store as well as Kränku tea shop. Lots of nice things to buy =) And picking off a few caches on the way, Ringmuren 8 and Bingebyparken.

Once at home, we’ve plated upp tea, coffee, cookies, whiskey, Dooleys and lots of other yummy stuff…

Now just enjoying each others company – and maybe planning for a fun day tomorrow! And teaching Anna more about geocaching =) It’s like the plague – we force everyone to become geocachers =)

Cache count: 4 / 456 total.