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.
~ Skywatch Friday ~
A Happy Ending Of The Week
My first week of work ended good when we had our so called “social trip” to a uninhabited island yesterday. The early trip was not at all exciting because of the gloomy weather and cold gush of wind. But the weather changed course when we were on board a little boat that took us to the island. The gray clouds turned to bright as if after a short black-out, the lights were on and everybody looked happy. The island used to be a military headquarter during the war so you know what to expect to see. After looking around, taking pictures and listening to the guide for more than a half day, we went on board the boat again to move to another island for our lunch. Classy. It’s a little island so not much to say about it than people going there just to eat in the somewhat old-fashioned but cozy restaurant. The atmosphere of eating by the sea adds the lure to the island. I had a great time really to mingle again with my colleagues after the two-month summer break.
We finished a bit earlier, around 4pm so I thought of going to the light fixtures shop to look for a small table lamp before heading home. It’s not for the table actually, but it’s for our hallway bureau we bought a month ago. It was hubby’s idea to place a lamp on it so it wouldn’t look bare. As always, it will take months or years before his can finalize his idea. When it comes to home lighting, he knows the watts and volts than I do. But I don’t think I need to be an expert of those when I just buy a table lamp or chandeliers for this matter. And speaking of chandeliers, I have this odd feeling everytime I see one on the ceiling that it would fall any moment on my head.
The Island After 34 Years
I mentioned in my previous post that we visited an island about a week ago so here’s to tell you something about it. With a company composed of my mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, we traversed the island by a passenger ferry. It took about 35 minutes to reach the island named Donso (Donsö) in Gothenburg’s Southern Archipelago. Hubby and his family had lived on the island for almost 10 years so it was interesting for them to see how it was like then and now. He did not visit the island for 34 years and I could see how glad he was when he saw the house they lived in still standing there. He, his brother and his mother were talking endlessly when they were by the house, trying to reminisce every details of the years they spent on the island. And I was busy taking photos of them and around. The island has about 1400 inhabitants and it’s (almost) car-free streets make it easy and safe to walk through everywhere. Here are some photos I took and I let them tell more of the island.
A street at Donsö
This his how the car-free streets look. Hubby and his brother were walking around, looking for some changes that they could think of. The left side of the street was an empty lot but now it’s residential premises.
Means of Transport at Donsö
These are the people’s means of transport. No cars allowed on ths island and the residents’ car are actually parked across the ferry harbour.
Smart Cars at Donsö, lol!
This means of transport reminds me of those small Smart Cars, lol! It’s a little parking area near the harbour.
Apple trees everywhere!
And apple trees everywhere! Just in the wide and greeny yards of some houses grows this short and slender apple tree. Even in the bushes by the yacht harbour, there are apple trees.
Name this fruit
We had no idea what kind of berry tree this is, but it is by the fence and even when we looked nearer, we could not figure out what fruit it is.
It was a wonderful day in a peaceful island. I would not hesitate living in there if given the chance, as long as there’s internet. And as a matter of fact, there is!
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