Visby of Gotland
Another overnight ferry ahead
On the way from Stockholm to Nynäshamn another spoke brakes. This time I don't
bother very much because the ferry is said to leave about midnight. For a second
time I have to stay awake for 60 hours. But I am young and on holidays and it does
not matter. I spend the evening in Nynäshamn, looking at the sailing boats and wind
surfers on this lovely day. Even the young ones are doing a great job on their litte
boards.
At midnight the MS Visby sails for Gotland, a very beautiful island south
of Stockholm. The combination of two ferries will save about 270 km of minor
roads and so I enjoy two days with not too many kilometers. The tickets are reduced
due to my student card and I get cheap pipe tobacco on board.
The morning is great. Again the first day welcomes me at my favourite place, the
railing of the ship. It is a day to relax. All I do today is strolling aroud the old fortress
of Visby waiting for the hour that the ship comes in. For the first time on this
trip I spend a day in a very beautiful town, comparable to Rothenburg o. d.
Tauber or Carcassone
in southern France.
I am too tired to make a bike trip around the island. I just walk about and have a look
at the old town taking some photos. Everything is old here, the houses, the allies
and even the motor cars seem to be relics from a different century.
I sit at a café and watch as time goes by. I gather fresh power for the last 1000 kilometers. Now I am hell-bent to cycle all the way back home.
