Green Foxy's summer 88
2013

Tripp to Dalarna
Part 1

The tripp, Lill Babs café, the cabins, Falun and Falun copper mine

The Trip

2013-08-06. Me by the bus.
2013-08-06. We had a coffee break by The High Coast Bridge.
2013-08-06. I like this bridge.
2013-08-06. Vi had lunch in this restaurant.
2013-08-06. We stopped by Lill Babs Caffär (café) there they had an  exhibition about the famous Swedish singer Lill Babs
2013-08-06. Me on the left walking to the Lill Babs exhibition.
2013-08-06. Nice lupines in  the garden by the Lill Babs café.
2013-08-06. Clothes Lill Babs wore.
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2013-08-06. Me dressed as Lill Babs ;-)
2013-08-06. Me by a sign that sais: Reserved for the busses. But the bus driver did not know this, and parked the bus on an other place. ;)
2013-08-06. A nice lamp on the terrace
2013-08-06. We got coffee and cake. A carrot cake with lemon cream. But this was a BIG cake for one person. We did not take the whole bit. We told the staff we only wanted one cake and shared it. But before I shared it I took a picture of the cake.
2013-08-06. This house was in the garden by the Lill Babs caffär.
2013-08-06. Art. A Sami made of wood.
2013-08-06. When we were in the bus again we saw this beautiful sky.
2013-08-06. It was gorgeous.
2013-08-06. We should live 4 nights in Hantversbyn (handycraft village)
2013-08-06. Me in front of our cottage. But these were not cottages with a kitchen. These were only hotel room. We had breakfast and dinner in the restaurant.
2013-08-06. Me in the cottage. Down below I will show some pictures how it looked inside the cottage.
2013-08-06. The hall
2013-08-06. The beds were separate and not a double bed. We did not like it. But it was lovely to live here.
2013-08-06. At the right the bathroom door.
2013-08-06. The hall.
2013-08-06. I liked this table cloth with the Dala horses
2013-08-06. Me in front of the cottages.
2013-08-06. Another picture of me by the cottage.
2013-08-06. The cottage village.
2013-08-06. At the left they had small handicraft shops. But as we arrived late and were gone on trips every day, we could not buy things there. Because it was closed when we came back.
2013-08-06. Ove in the cottage village.
2013-08-06. The restaurant.
2013-08-06. The first course was a sandwich with shellfish in mayonnaise.
2013-08-06. The main course was pork in red wine sauce and potato gratin.
2013-08-06. The cottage village was on a hill. We had a view over lake Siljan.
2013-08-06. Me on my way to the restaurant.
2013-08-06. Ove is surfing on his tablet on the terrace.
2013-08-06. This tower is a copy of the tower on a hill. There is often a rooster on the flag poles in Dalarna.
2013-08-06. Lake Siljan.
2013-08-07. The next morning we had a delicious breakfast in the restaurant.
2013-08-07. Ove eating breakfast.
2013-08-07. Another picture of the little tower by the hotel.

To the Falun copper mine

2013-08-07. We made a trip to "Great copper moutain".
2013-08-07.
2013-08-07. En old building by the copper mine.
2013-08-07. Some more old buildings bu the copper mine.
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2013-08-07. On Midsummer's Eveof 1687, the dividing wall between the main pits and the foundations gave way, and a significant portion of the mine collapsed. This could easily have become a great catastrophe, killing and trapping the hundreds of men working in the mine, if  it had it not occurred on Midsummer's Eve, one of the two days of the year which the miners were not working (the other being Christmas)
2013-08-07. At the right a stone from the mine that's containing copper.
2013-08-07. An old railroad car.

A visit in Falun

2013-08-07. The tower of the Kristine church in Falun
2013-08-07. The Kristine church in Falun
2013-08-07. The Kristine church in Falun
2013-08-07. I liked the stained glass in the church very much
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2013-08-07. The Kristine church in Falun
2013-08-07. We lit candles.
2013-08-07. It was so beautiful with these candles.
2013-08-07. The Kristine church in Falun
2013-08-07. The square in Falun.
2013-08-07. The square in Falun.
2013-08-07. A canal in Falun.
2013-08-07. They had placed nice painted goats in Falun. Ove taking a picture of the goat.
2013-08-07. A nice park in Falun.
2013-08-07. I liked the reflecting in the water
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2013-08-07. Another painted goat.
2013-08-07. The Fjällräven logotype in a store in Falun.
2013-08-07. It means that this store is selling Fjällräven outdoor equipment.
2013-08-07. They were taking down a flagpole
2013-08-07. Now the flag pole is down. It should be replaced with a new one.
2013-08-07. Me in the park by the statue of Selma Lagerlöf. She was a famous author.

Links

Lill Babs Caffär

Great_Copper_Mountain

Selma lagerlof

 
© Wilhelmina and Ove Schedin 2016-03-13