After a couple of hours drive from Landskrona, we arrived in the little town of Genarp to visit our friends Eva and Bengt. They had prepared a whole program for us to see as much as we could of the beautiful southeastern part of Skåne (Scania).
They have a great house and a huge yard filled with vegetables and berries.
Here is Bengt taking care of the garlic harvest.
We started our excursions by visiting Ystad, the home town of the famous fictional detective Kurt Wallander of Henning Mankell's crime novels. We did not take a ''Tour in Wallander's Footsteps,'' but there are many such tours, especially popular among Germans.
Instead we went to the market and visited St. Mary's church. Every city or town we visited had a St. Mary's church, it seems.
But we just stopped briefly in Ystad since we were on a quest to find ''Ales stenar'' -
Ale's Stones. Ale's Stones are a Swedish equivalent to Stonehenge and are believed to be from around 600 B.C., although, as I will explain, one researcher claims that they really are from around 3000 B.C., i.e., as old or older than Stonehenge.
We did find them without much trouble, but little did we know that these stones are at the center of huge controversy between an independent researcher Bob G. Lind and the Swedish archaeological and astronomical academic establishment. Bob G. Lind was there in person to greet visitors with information about his theory. He gave us a half-hour lecture in which he explained that these stones do not constitute a grave, which the academic establishment believes, but rather have been set up according to astronomical principles. His explanations sounded VERY persuasive to us, and if you want to inform yourself, read more
here. Of course, we did not hear the other side.......
In any case, Ale's Stones are fascinating and the location at the top of the ridge overlooking the Baltic is stunning.
We took a short hike along the coast and marveled at the beauty of the landscape on the southernmost coast of Sweden. Those ancestors were obviously pretty smart.
After inspecting the stones, we went into the little village of Kåseberga, where the big attraction is to eat fried ''strömming'' (Baltic herring) with mashed potatoes.
With a glass of beer, now that is a treat.
Bengt is pretty pleased with his first great idea (to visit Ale's Stones and Kåseberga), and a lot of tourists had the same idea as he did.
We decided to try out the Baltic, but it was too cold for everybody, except Cliff and Thomas.
Staying on the beach was a better idea.
After a couple of hours drive from Landskrona, we arrived in the little town of Genarp to visit our friends Eva and Bengt. They had prepared a whole program for us to see as much as we could of the beautiful southeastern part of Skåne (Scania).
They have a great house and a huge yard filled with vegetables and berries.
Here is Bengt taking care of the garlic harvest.
We started our excursions by visiting Ystad, the home town of the famous fictional detective Kurt Wallander of Henning Mankell's crime novels. We did not take a ''Tour in Wallander's Footsteps,'' but there are many such tours, especially popular among Germans.
Instead we went to the market and visited St. Mary's church. Every city or town we visited had a St. Mary's church, it seems.
But we just stopped briefly in Ystad since we were on a quest to find ''Ales stenar'' - Ale's Stones. Ale's Stones are a Swedish equivalent to Stonehenge and are believed to be from around 600 B.C., although, as I will explain, one researcher claims that they really are from around 3000 B.C., i.e., as old or older than Stonehenge.
We did find them without much trouble, but little did we know that these stones are at the center of huge controversy between an independent researcher Bob G. Lind and the Swedish archaeological and astronomical academic establishment. Bob G. Lind was there in person to greet visitors with information about his theory. He gave us a half-hour lecture in which he explained that these stones do not constitute a grave, which the academic establishment believes, but rather have been set up according to astronomical principles. His explanations sounded VERY persuasive to us, and if you want to inform yourself, read more here. Of course, we did not hear the other side.......
In any case, Ale's Stones are fascinating and the location at the top of the ridge overlooking the Baltic is stunning.
We took a short hike along the coast and marveled at the beauty of the landscape on the southernmost coast of Sweden. Those ancestors were obviously pretty smart.
After inspecting the stones, we went into the little village of Kåseberga, where the big attraction is to eat fried ''strömming'' (Baltic herring) with mashed potatoes.
With a glass of beer, now that is a treat.
Bengt is pretty pleased with his first great idea (to visit Ale's Stones and Kåseberga), and a lot of tourists had the same idea as he did.
We decided to try out the Baltic, but it was too cold for everybody, except Cliff and Thomas.
Staying on the beach was a better idea.
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