North Seas Serenade – Visby

The weather caught up with us today and it poured.  We got on the tender and got to the shore and the guide told us it never rains in Visby.  I almost said I have empirical evidence to the contrary.  The town was charming and pretty even in the rain.  Visby is on the island of Gotland and is a big vacation resort for the Swedish people.  It is a town built around 1200 AD and was a walled city for most of its existence.  We first started off at a scenic view of the town which was mostly rain and fog.

Then we sloshed through the botanical gardens where we literally went around the mulberry bush – no singing required.  A lot of the land is sandstone which they grind up into cement and ship to California.  So the guide said that Gotland is slowly moving to California.  Ha ha.  I have a piece of that sandstone which I am prematurely moving to Calilfornia.  Then she said that the land mass is unattached and is slowly moving and eventually will end up on the Russian continent.  

We drove around Visby and ended up at the Dalmansporten where the Cathedral is located and Tom and I opted not to go because (a) it’s so hard on Tom’s knees and (b) there are no handrails anywhere and I didn’t want to have to go down 50 steps by myself in the rain.  So we came back to the boat, dried off, ate lunch, took a nap, played trivia which we won and then lounged around and ate dinner and now to bed and tomorrow – Berlin.