Entries by Åsa

Turning military land into civil land

Bungenäs is situated at the north-east of Gotland. It is a peninsula. It has a history with stone industry and then as a military training area. Today Bungenäs is civil and owned by Joachim Kuylenstierna. He wants to turn this area into a place where people like artists, surfers and naturelovers can feel free and […]

Smoked fish

When I was a kid and we went to Gotland for vacation, I remember how we bought smoked flounders and then my parents would choose a really nice spot in the nature where we could sit and eat our smoked flounders. Part of the delightful experience was eating with our fingers. Ah how good the […]

Coincidence or just logical?

A couple of days ago I made contact with a man living in Santa Cruz, by the coastline in California. Our connection had originally to do with computer software, but when he found out that I live on Gotland he said that he was interested in runestones and would like to visit Gotland and see […]

Small world or Expanding world?

When I think back to 1982 when I was twenty, Gotland seemed to be a very remote and dull place in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Even if I thought the nature was ever so beautiful I couldn’t get rid of the feeling that ”everything happened somewhere else”. Gotland was not the center of […]

Gotland is second best at Facebook in Sweden!

This blog is really not writing itself. Somehow I doesn’t seem to get the right angle. What can I write about from my small part of the world that might interest people all over the world? Let’s give it a try. Again. I read an article about Facebook and how common it is in different […]