{"id":635,"date":"2024-10-26T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/?p=635"},"modified":"2024-10-26T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:35:57","slug":"sweden-and-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/2024\/10\/26\/sweden-and-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden and Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday 24 Oct<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our friends Suzanne and Peter picked us up from the train station and took us to their summer house in Vitem\u00f6lla. It was great to see them again (we met Suzanne and Peter on our New Zealand cruise in 2019) and we had a lot to talk about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday 25 Oct<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today we visited Ystad which is a town in Sk\u00e5ne county on Sweden’s southern coast. Its mediaeval town centre features cobblestone streets and half-timbered houses. It\u2019s also home to Klostret i Ystad, a centuries-old Franciscan monastery and museum. The St. Mary\u2019s Church has a silver collection and is known for its night watchman’s horn signal. The town is the setting of author Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander crime series, one that Jen read and seen the TV series of.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One of the things Arno wanted to see in Sweden are the Ale’s Stones which is a megalithic monument in Scania in southern Sweden. It is a stone ship, oval in outline, with the stones at each end markedly larger than the rest. It is 67 m long formed by 59 large boulders, weighing up to 5 tonnes each.

The carbon-14 dating system for organic remains has provided seven results at the site. One indicates that the material is around 5,500 years old, whereas the remaining six indicate a date about 1,400 years ago. The latter is considered to be the most likely time for Ales Stenar to have been created. That would place its creation towards the end of the Nordic Iron Age. While we visited the monument there were quite a few hang-gliders using the thermal air that raises along the coast line.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Saturday 26 Oct<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The area we are in is famous for its apples, so today we visit a apple farm on our way back to Lund.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thursday 24 Oct Our friends Suzanne and Peter picked us up from the train station and took us to their summer house in Vitem\u00f6lla. It was great to see them again (we met Suzanne and Peter on our New Zealand cruise in 2019) and we had a lot to talk Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"traveledmap_user_id":[],"traveledmap_trip_id":[],"traveledmap_trip_base_url":[],"traveledmap_disable_widget":[],"traveledmap_show_markers_customization":[],"traveledmap_trip_steps":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denmark-and-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnobrok.com\/blog\/worldtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}