Didn’t go out till after lunch. Back to O-Ringen Centre to buy a simple wrist compass. Don’t want to rely on my S Hemisphere one though it might have done. And of course once my wallet was out, ended up with a few more little things from “OGear”.
Then took a drive to Linköping c40 km SW (at least I think that’s right!) home of SAAB. Seems like they have a number of other thriving industries too – chimney stacks at work on Sunday.
St Lars Church in the centre of town (couldn’t also get the pretty park behind – sun in the wrong place)
And the pretty canal/stream. There was a zip line thing set up that pulled waterskiers (actually on snowboard things) about 200 m long.
Country road to get there, freeway coming back. wheat fields, some hay cut for silage. I guess they’ll get another crop in.
did I tell you the other day the Lofoten story about the house colours – you know, the traditional red barns and farm houses, but some are yellow and others white …
the story goes that the fishermen had to ‘seal’ their timber houses so used fish oil and then coloured the oil with fish blood – red. The bosses could afford better: they bought expensive zinc to get a white colour. later the middle classes bought less expensive oche – yellow.
of course sources of paint and sealant have moved on but the traditional colours prevail. Today there were lots of red barns and houses, and just a few yellow too. not much white in the rural areas.
travellingkathy 