The Town Where I Live

Here are some stock photographs of the town where I live (i.e. I did not take these myself). First, we have the two principal churches in the town’s main square:

The square is packed today with hundreds of market-stalls, as the day before Midsummer’s Eve always brings lövmarknaden, ‘the leaf-market’. A few days ago our skies were as blue as those pictured here, but today they are drably overcast. The main shopping thoroughfare (below), is also lined with stalls…

And the market spills over too into the Admiralty Park, whose centrepiece is the yellow-painted clock-tower, above, around which Dog and I walk three times a day. The Naval base, part of which adjoins the southern end of this park, is still enclosed, in places, by some of its original 17th-Century fortifications.

The town is built over an archipelago of interbridged isles and holms, and has a half-dozen harbours, one of which is home to this charming fountain. The Marine Museum, below, overlooks another harbour.

And this last picture is of the offices where I work, and where I am right now.

Posted by misteraitch at June 19, 2003 01:05 PM | TrackBack