Essays
Philosophical and Political
2022 The Northern Route – Visby Botanical Garden
While the hotel isn’t my cup of tea, it is nicely located on a small inlet off the Baltic and surrounded by forest and small plowed agricultural plots. I found two very old and large trees that the hotel went to the trouble of providing information about on laminated...
2022 The Northern Route – Mönsterås Sweden
11 October: Ferried back to the mainland (Oskarshamn) from Visby last evening, spent the night there, and then drove south 100 km to my present hotel—a lap of luxury sort of place that I’d have never chosen but through neglect let the agent do. I’m by nature too...
2022 The Northern Route – Visby Gotland
My hotel in Visby is located within the area that makes it special—a well preserved medieval city with cobbled surfaces throughout and ancient buildings and hollowed out cathedrals, narrow winding streets and a remnant wall and watchtowers built to protect the old...
2022 The Northern Route – Gotland Archipelago
8 October: I was in Stockholm for three days then rented a car and drove south to catch a ferry to Visby on Gotland Island, where I am now. Except for the day in the forest and canoe while in Helsinki it begins to look like Nature has receded in my itinerary...
2022 The Northern Route – Silja Serenade
Now I’m on the Silja Serenade, the ferry to Stockholm, which feels a bit like a floating version of Las Vegas: clubs, casino, expensive shops, the whole array. I won’t enjoy this but it ends mid-morning tomorrow so won’t last long and I’m always pleased to be on a...
2022 The Northern Route – Helsinki
3 October: Can’t say why but I developed a beginning affection toward Helsinki. The area of the city where my hotel was and where I did my walking, which is said to be city center, is typical big city in many ways but car traffic isn’t so bad, trolleys seem everywhere...
