In the Eyes of Skansen Lejonet
Beware! Nothing and no one escapes from the eyes of Skansen Lejonet. This fort is watching the city day and night, witnessing decent or disturbing moves of anyone in the vicinity. If only it can speak and reveal what it has been seeing. But it can’t, for it stands there alone and its reason for being there is no longer as important as in 1694. Now it’s one of the city’s preserved forts. Meet Skansen Lejonet in Goteborg.
Awooo! I didn’t realize at first that the holes of the fort indicate parts of a face. It looks like a head coming out of the house to see outside. Skansen Lejonet used to be a military facility but later became a military museum, then deserted in 1942.
Now it serves as a place for events like parties, weddings, and other celebrations. And how about fixing a Halloween Party at Skansen Lejonet and spook your way to the city.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Paradise in the Country
We were invited to a kid’s birthday party past Sunday, whose parents own a farmland in the countryside. It was our second time to be invited to their garden party and again, I couldn’t help but admire the place that seemed paradise to me. Though I have not seen the entire land, the garden is wide enough to show off.
Looks like hubby was feeling like he owned the garden, too and freely walked the friend’s dog around. I wish I could see him doing this every morning.
In the huge garden were fruit trees growing extensively. There were apples of different sorts and pears waiting to be picked.
Plants and flowers were lovely in different colors and blossoming in every corner. They seemed to get every visitor’s attention.
And the fish in the little pond were a good entertainment for the kids. I’m wondering now if they made it in purpose. I should ask the next time we visit them. And I’m imagining how the place looks like in the winter. That’s something to discover later, but for now, let me enjoy my view of paradise in the country.
P.S. The images are not in their normal size because, silly me, I changed my phone camera’s old setting. I tried the 9 megapix instead of 12 megapix, thus the images turned out to be wide. But as usual, you can always click them for larger views.
No Man on the Island
I had the opportunity to visit this secluded and somewhat uninhabited island on one of our teachers’ trips. It used to be a quarantine place in the 1700′s when epidemics had reached the country. I can’t tell much about the history of the island but what I saw was enough to convince me that it housed disease-stricken people in the past. It’s not allowed to take pictures of what’s on the island so I wish you could just imagine how the facilities look like through the image below.
I hope I didn’t scare you with the history of Känsö. Everything in here is just preserved but the epidemics have long been gone. I believe you know why some nations before had quarantine places for sick people. But times have changed and real hospitals have been organized and built.
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