From Stockholm, we took the short bus ride to Nynäshamn and the ferry to Visby, Gotland.  It is about a three hour ferry ride.

Visby is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most picturesque little towns I’ve ever seen.

 

We stayed at the Kalk Hotel, very nice, and built right on the wall.

The view from our third floor room at The Kalk Hotel

The Lilla Strandporten (small beach gate) was visible from our room’s patio.  When the old harbour was here, this gate was the way into the square and market place.

Visby is a walled city with a lot of history.  A walk through the Visby Gotland museum will enlighten you to the many struggles the people of Gotland had to survive.

Our visit to Visby happened to coincide with their annual Medieval Festival.  Where previously I had walked through a park area, we now walked through a Medieval Market.  It was fun, the stall owners dressed in period costume, but thankfully taking modern day credit cards.

I purchased some of the hand made pottery from this woman.  Her mother was the craftsman.

Finnish linens.  I bought two sauna towels.

On the trail of a great fish soup, I tracked down a restaurant I’d eaten at a few years back.  It was still there, and the soup was unchanged.

Visby can be summed up in one picture, flowers and ruins.

We walked around the town after dark, as the lights of the ruins came on.

Before heading out of town to our rental home in the south, we toured the very informative Gotland Museum.