Saturday, 9 July (continued): Having seen the cathedral (previous post), we walked back to our hotel along some rather charming old streets with wooden houses.
We also saw another church, St Lars, but only from the outside. (It wasn't open.)
Back at the square close to our hotel! - What I had not been able to deduct from the map beforehand was that that whole square would be full of tables and chairs belonging to the various restaurants and cafés surrounding it. (We have no place quite like that where I live - our street cafés are more spread out, and our main square more of a daytime market place.) On Friday night when we arrived, it was also packed with people, and very noisy! On Saturday morning it was very quiet, though...
After our morning walk to the cathedral and back, we checked out of the hotel, found our way out of town, and drove north-west towards Karlstad.
In case you need a reminder of the geography, here's the map again.
10 comments:
The houses look indeed charming. Are most of them lived in, or is it more an area of museums?
The market square in my hometown is busy and noisy on balmy summer nights, too. Farmers markets are held each Tuesday and Thursday on a smaller scale, and a really big one on Saturdays, but they only last until about 1:00 pm.
it is a good idea to have all that outdoor seating. a beautiful square it is. I like all the colors on the buildings. the first photo with you in it, it looks like there is a pole to tie horses to... beautiful old buildings
The traditional buildings look interesting, and like Mieke, I wonder how many are actual homes, rather than commercial buildings. The main square looks so cosmopolitan - it seems to be the fashion these days to utilise town centres as a meeting place for eating and drinking!
Meike, I don't know. In the red ones in the first two photos there were obviously some small businesses/shops, though.
Sandra, the square certainly seemed to be popular on a Friday night at least...
CG, city street cafés and restaurants have certainly grown a lot more common here over the past few decades. From my own youth I hardly recall any at all.
The churches all seem to have the sme pretty color scheme on the outside.
One of the things I loved about France and Italy was the amount of al fresco eating.
White churches with copper-green roofs are rather common here, yes. It varies with where and when they were built, though.
Graham, it's become a lot more common here in later years (decades). No doubt France and Italy are still more suited for it all year round, though!
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