The Things I Enjoy

Tuesday, 22 July 2014

The Royal Swedish Navy´s sail training ship HMS Falken in Helsingborg

The Royal Swedish Navy´s sail training ship HMS Falken (40 m x 8 m) is always an imposing sight. Today the schooner, which together with its sister ship HMS Gladan, forms the Swedish Navy´s Schoonersquadron, visited Helsingborg on its way from Öckerö to Karlskrona:

HMS Falken arrives in Helsingborg this morning.

Preparing to moor.

The ship is in safe hands, with the skipper, Thomas Falk overseeing the action.

The helm of HMS Falken.

This is how the Schoonersquadron is described on the Gladan/Falken home page:

Skonertdivisionen (The Schoonersquadron) is a training and recruitment unit. The squadron consists of HMS Gladan and HMS Falken in which training is conducted with a focus on practical seamanship and navigation. Our training consists of practical and theoretical lessons that can be both physically and mentally demanding when they occur at sea with weather conditions. The special environment is brand new (sailing) for most of them. This helps to ensure that traniees can develop as an individual and as a group member.

Friday, 18 July 2014

Kulturen in Lund - Sweden's second oldest open-air museum

Kulturen is Sweden's second oldest open-air museum after Skansen in Stockholm.
The main museum is located near the historic Lund Cathedral. The museum consists of a traditional museum together with an open air museum with over 30 different buildings.

The Nobleman´s House

The Burgher´s House

An alley in the Kulturen open-air museum

Interior from the Bosebo church

Thursday, 17 July 2014

The 9th Eurogym 2014 in Helsingborg

The 9th Eurogym 2014 in Helsingborg was exactly what it was supposed to be:

"Performances, workshops and parties, EUROGYM is a huge social non-competitive event for youngsters where everyone is welcome. It starts with an Opening Ceremony “Olympic style”, which is then followed by a gigantic Welcome Party. During the event week the participants will take part in different morning workshops. There are four workshop categories available: gymnastics/acrobatics, dance, fitness and “alternative activities”.

Here are a some happy faces from one of the events: