erisian: yaaaay!!! you've posted them
. now i'm aching to go buy that card reader so i can get started on mine. i love your pictures of my two homes, dear, it's fun to see them through your eyes.
comments for curious people:
most of erisian's orsa pictures were taken in my home village, slättberg. the picture of snow actually contains moose prints, in case you didn't see. they were big ones too, larger than most you see, so mr or mrs moose must have been rather big. apart from the delicious smoked moose we ate at a party at church this was the closest we got to a moose during erisian's sweden visit.
the pictures from göteborg are from a variety of places. as you can see, though, the weather was awful. awful i say!
the first picture is of one of the new trams. maybe some of the italian members here will recognise the model, because those trams were italian built. and they don't like the climate in göteborg - they are falling apart with rust already after three or four years in use and they stop every time we get snow. the old military building is in a place called kviberg. go and have a look if you come to göteborg, i think they're charming. the first of the swedish kings isn't an illustration to exactly how bad the weather was. he's actually an upsized plastic copy of a bronze statue - placed mostly under the canal water. the two statues seem to point accusingly at eachother. the church is the german church in göteborg, also known as christinae church. i've always liked looking at it from the outside but never even thought of going in and it was just because the friend that we were out to meet that day knew it would be open to visitors that we went in. i fell in love with it at once, i especially loved the windows and the chandeliers (nice job catching all the lights, by the way, erisian!) and i will post my own pictures from the church as soon as i get a problem with the uploading solved.
the traditional swedish instrument is a nyckelharpa (=key harp), which sounds a lot like a folk fiddle (only not as good as a dala fiddle, if you ask me) but is unique to scandinavia. we bought a cd from the guy who played this particulaar one, he calls himself bardus barbatus and he played really well. here's his homepage, it's in swedish and hasn't been updated since this summer, but maybe it will be of some use anyway:
http://bardusbarbatus.com/#home