August Calendar Photo

 ... and memories from Västervik, 2025...

In my own photo calendar for 2026, the photo for August (above) shows a view from Västervik, on the east coast of Sweden. 

The link goes to a post of mine from August 2025, with some more photos from this charming old seaside town. My brother and I spent an afternoon/evening (and night) there on our holiday trip. The sky was cloudy when we arrived, but the sun came out later on in the evening. Looking up that post now, I see that I also wrote there that "I took so many photos that I won't use them all in this post, but will save some for later."  I'm not sure if I ever got round to showing some more - but as it can still be said to be "later", here are some additional ones now... ;)

 

This year, we are not planning any "longer" trip . I for one have been feeling rather tired all summer. Besides "weird weather" a lot of the time, I'm still feeling limited by my knee, and am not sure how I'd cope with full days of travelling and touristing. Hopefully my brother will be able to drive down here for a visit towards the end of August, though (I spoke to him yesterday), and we may just make some shorter outing or two from here. (For me just now it doesn't have to be neither far nor long to make a bit of a change - while for him it will be a a few days away from home anyway.) 

Road Trip 2025 (8) - Västervik

Monday 11 August - Part 4
Västervik

We arrived at Västervik, a town of around 22 000 inhabitants on the East Coast, around 14:30 pm. A bit too early to be able to check into the hotel straight away, so we first parked the car down at the harbour (just a block or two away from the hotel), and went for a short "orientation" stroll along the water, before we went to check in (and then also moved the car to hotel's garage for the night). 
 

 

After checking in, we had a bit of a rest in our respective rooms, before we went out again around 6 pm to see some more of the town. It was a beautiful evening, and Västervik (the name meaning "West Bay") is one of those charming old towns with lots of old wooden houses along narrow alleys preserved. I took so many photos that I won't use them all in this post, but will save some for "later".

 

To not just walk all randomly, we decided to go and have a look at both churches, whose towers we could see sticking up above other roof tops.

St Gertrud's church, from the 1450s.

 

 

 St Petri Church from 1903-05

Coming back to the harbour area "downtown", the evening light there was just stunning!

 

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