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Gotland 3.6.23
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Map of the Baltic above and Gotland on the right. Both maps enlarge |
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It took two planes to reach Gotland changing at Stockholm. We arrived at Visby and settled in
| It was light at 3.15 in the morning and by the time we were taking pictures, the sun was too high and the light too strong. It was difficult to cope with this and the pictures are not as good as I would like... |
 The drive |
 The manor house |
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 Lots of bikes |
 Suderbys Herrgard, our Hotel |
 Oriental poppy |
 Reception |
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 Speedwell |
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Visby Town wall |
 Visby town square with a ram bollard |
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We had an excellent meal at Visby Hof |
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 View through the window of our room |
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 Common Room |
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We had varied breakfasts in the dining room; always with a lighted candle. The indoor plants were spectacular. | |
 Logger for day 1 |
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 Boat shaped grave |
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 Helianthemum nummularium |
 Boat shaped grave |
This enlarges enough to read |
 Hieracium |
 Tragopogon pratense - Salsify |
 Honeysuckle |
 Melampyrum scardicum - Cow wheat |
 Silene nutans - Nottingham catchfly |
 Viburnum lantana - Wayfaring Tree
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 Birds foot trefoil |
 Pulsatilla vulgaris |
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To the lighthouse |
 Birds foot trefoil buds |
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 Mouse-ear Hawkweed |
 Oxytropis |
 Geranium sanguineum |
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 The pollen from the pines got into our clothes and our noses |
 Strawberry |
 Nonea pulla |
 Our first orchid |
 Orchid with close-up lens |
 Orchis mascula Early Purple orchid
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 Polygala vulgaris - milkwort |
 Water avens |
 Pulsatilla vulgaris close-up |
 Echium vulgare |
 Pulsatilla vulgaris |
 Someone on a broomstick? |
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 Potentilla anserina |
 Caterpillar possible a lackey |
 Birds foot trefoil |
 Water avens |
 Saxifraga granulata |
 Orchis ustulata |
 Burnt-tip orchid |
 Dactylorhiza sambucina - Elder-flowered orchid |
 Violet |
 Geum rivale - water avens |
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 Nonea pulla |
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 Junipers |
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 Another attempt at a good pulsatilla picture |
 The Lighthouse |
 Thyme |
 Geranium sanguineum |
 Orchis militaris - Military orchid
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 Blurry blue, it was too fast for me! |
Orchis morio - Green- winged orchid |
 Yellow rattle |
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 Mating blues |
 Honeysuckle |
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 Chafer on Berberis |
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 Fuzzy orange bumblebee |
 Meadow |
 Frog orchid |
 Dactylorhiza viridis |
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 meadow |
 Sorrel |
 Pyrgus malvae - Grizzled Skipper |
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 Fragrant orchid |
 Gymnadenia conopsea Fragrant orchid |
 Orchid array |
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 Burnt orchid |
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 Paris quadrifolia |
 Twablade |
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 Lily of the valley |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardre_image_stones https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Ardre_image_stones Later we saw more stones in the Gotland Museum |
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| Dinner in Visby, H had lamb and P a burger | |||
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