The sun had been blazing
and we were nearing the end of our time in Sweden. With only two days before departing for
Finland we decided to visit Skansen Open-Air Museum and the Uto Island, located
in the archipelago.
To get to Skansen we
caught the ferry across the harbour, a lovely trip with fantastic views of
Stockholm city. Skansen was similar to a
museum we visited in Denmark, but bigger and with Scandinavian animals. There were people dressed in traditional
dress or old farming clothes and working the farm. We liked seeing the moose and reindeer,
Corban liked calling out to the reindeer with the names of Santa’s
reindeer. There were traditional violin
folk songs played and also a folk dancing performance. The folk dancing was great to watch. When we were leaving there was also a band
playing music, it was funny listening to Abba songs in Sweden.
Our final day in Sweden
was a visit to Uto Island. We read great
reviews on the internet and were recommended to go there by our home exchange
family. The boat ride took about one
hour through a maze of islands and was very pretty, although the yucky water
surprised us. The island was small
enough to walk around and we stopped at different swimming spots. It made us very thankful that we come from
NZ, the water was quite polluted there were even little dead fish floating
around. Later Allan did some research
and we found out that the Baltic Sea is actually dying. With 85 million people living around it and
the water taking 20 years to change, it is in a bit of a bad state. Such a shame, as it is such a beautiful
place.
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