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 Posted:   May 23, 2016 - 5:50 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

I got interesting information from some of you when I asked about Hebrides Islands. Just recently I read two mystery novels by Swedish writer Hakan Ostlundh, and they were great. The main detective lives in Gotland and works in Visby. In the second novel, he had to travel by ferry quite often to solve a murder on the island of Fårö. (I had to download Faro to get all those unique marks above the a and o.) I finally did some research on the Internet to find information on Gotland and Faro.

Faro only has 500 year around residents but it is packed with tourists in the summer from what I read. In the novel, it seemed rather desolate with few villages. It is very northern, so I was surprised when I read that characters went swimming in the ocean and said the water was warm. Warm? I thought the oceans I swam in in Mexico and Hawaii were warm, but I would think that far north, the ocean would be freezing.

Also, I did discover Faro was the home of Ingmar Bergman for many years, and that many of his films were filmed on Faro.

Anyone visited Faro or Gotland? I’d love to hear your impressions.

 
 
 Posted:   May 24, 2016 - 2:37 AM   
 By:   Graham Watt   (Member)

joan, I could tell you a lot about Faro in Portugal. I'm sure that your Faro is a different one though. The water WAS freezing when I went there, and there were no austere Ingmar Bergman types on the beach. Quite the opposite in fact.

Always glad to be of help!

 
 Posted:   May 24, 2016 - 7:47 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Yes joanie, Faro in portugal is a great airport. Good access to the rest of the algarve.

Of Faro anywhere else i know nuffin.
Although i love sweden.
The women are...unbelievable.

Sorry if like mr Que that is completely useless to you.

No change from normal there.

 
 
 Posted:   May 24, 2016 - 8:47 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

In my research, I kept running into Faro, Portugal.

It, of course, is Fårö , Sweden.


I would think the ocean would be warmer in Portugal than in Sweden. Maybe I'll get there someday. I have been to Portugal a few times. Lovely country, great food and great wine. Now I have to start traveling further north. (Still waiting for TG and Bill to send me tickets. What a long wait, and I'm getting rather old and decrepit, but my mind is still sharp and witty and at times incisive! )

 
 
 Posted:   May 24, 2016 - 10:47 AM   
 By:   Graham Watt   (Member)

joan, if you're travelling up through Portugal in order to end up on Bill Carson's (and TG's) doorstep(s), you'll be passing directly by my house before you even leave the Iberian peninsula. I'm stuck right out there in the north-west. Do drop in for some of the local wines (they're delicious). If TG, Bill and I all chip in towards your round trip, we won't be THAT much out of pocket. Although I have spent 80 euros on film score CDs so far this year. And 500 euros on delicshiuoss local shwine.

 
 
 Posted:   May 24, 2016 - 11:10 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

That's a deal, Graham. I'd love to drop by your house and imbibe some of your local "schwine" with you unless you are passed out. smile

 
 Posted:   May 24, 2016 - 4:06 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Lets meet in faro. Bring wine.
I worry about joanie. She seems to be under the misapprehension that i have any money!!!
And that iam so bewitched im gona hand it over.
Huey, id love to be a sugar daddy but, my dear, piston broke.

 
 
 Posted:   May 24, 2016 - 4:14 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Stop talking about Portugal! big grin

I've never been to Fårö or Gotland. In fact, my travelling in Sweden is limited to a few places, and mostly urban ones. But I'm well aware of their beauty. I'd like to see them one day.

Don't be surprised by the warm Scandinavian weather during the summer -- we have this nifty thing called the Gulf Stream brushing right past us, so even though we're on the same latitude as Alaska, we often get nice, warm summers that sometimes surpass even countries closer to the Equator.

The rest of the year, however, is a different story...

 
 
 Posted:   May 24, 2016 - 4:52 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Okay, Bill, I'll work on forgiving you.

Thor, I know Scandinavian countries have wonderful summers. I just was surprised when in the novel people talked about the ocean waters being "warm." Maybe that is the Gulf Stream effect.

 
 
 Posted:   May 25, 2016 - 6:23 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Lets meet in faro. Bring wine.

Stuff that, we're meeting at Graham's chateau, Schloss, castell, whatever the Spanish word for his gaff is. And he can supply the wine too, as long as it's not from his bathtub.

On another note, it's the gulf stream that makes our holidays in Wales tolerable. Whatever the weather's doing - and it usually involves precipitation - at least the water's generally warm enough to swim in. (Except for last weekend when it was bone-achingly cold, but I swam in it anyway.)

 
 
 Posted:   May 25, 2016 - 6:56 AM   
 By:   Rozsaphile   (Member)

By coincidence the NY Times just published a piece on Gotland in a special travel section: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/t-magazine/sweden-gotland-island-travel.html

And Fårö, as movie lovers surely know, is the island where Ingmar Bergman shot most of his later films and where he eventually chose to live. He even made a documentary film about the locale: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064355/

 
 Posted:   May 25, 2016 - 7:19 AM   
 By:   MusicMad   (Member)

Lets meet in faro. Bring wine.

Stuff that, we're meeting at Graham's chateau, Schloss, castell, whatever the Spanish word for his gaff is. And he can supply the wine too, as long as it's not from his bathtub.


When we arrive in Santander next month, perhaps we should divert to go check out the locale ... and try the vino of course ... Graham: just how far west are you based?

On another note, it's the gulf stream that makes our holidays in Wales tolerable. Whatever the weather's doing - and it usually involves precipitation - at least the water's generally warm enough to swim in. (Except for last weekend when it was bone-achingly cold, but I swam in it anyway.)

I used to swim in the English sea most summers as a kid but my kids - and better half - prefer the warmer climes ... I do recall visiting The Gower (South Wales) back in the 1980s with friends. Having just returned from Kefalonia the previous week I took my snorkeling kit with me and happily went into the sea on a lovely, bright sunny early September day ... only to find that the moment I went underwater I could not breathe! I could have sworn the snorkel pipe worked perfectly in the Adriatic! smile

Mitch

 
 
 Posted:   May 25, 2016 - 9:11 AM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Sounds like Graham is going to have some amazing company from the U.K. He better start scouting around for some expensive fine wines not from his bathtub and break out his movie music CDs.

Roza, that was an a amazing article on Gotland and Faro as well as an interesting rumination of the need (or lack of need) for solitude. Thank you.

I never realized the Gulf Stream would provide warmer waters in the Northern countries. I'm such a wimp about cold ocean waters or about cold water in any environment.

 
 
 Posted:   May 25, 2016 - 10:51 AM   
 By:   Tobias   (Member)

As a Swede myself who happens to be a film (and film music fan) I have been to Fårö, Gotland (and yes to Visby too). Actually I`ve seen a movie in Ingmar Bergman`s own movie theatre when I was there exactly ten years ago. When I got home to the west coast of Sweden I read in the newspapers that Ang Lee was heading for Fårå, Gotland - the same day as I left the island of Gotland. Gosh, if I had known that I would have done everything in my power to extend my visit there just for the fact that I could have had the chance to see (and perhaps meet) Mr. Lee.

By the way Joan Hue, are you on Facebook? And if you are please send me Tobias Börjesson a friend request.

 
 
 Posted:   May 25, 2016 - 2:24 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Sorry, Tobias, but I'm not on Facebook.

Really enjoyed hearing about your visit to Faro and Gotland. Thanks.

 
 
 Posted:   May 25, 2016 - 3:25 PM   
 By:   Graham Watt   (Member)

Lets meet in faro. Bring wine.

Stuff that, we're meeting at Graham's chateau, Schloss, castell, whatever the Spanish word for his gaff is. And he can supply the wine too, as long as it's not from his bathtub.


/////////////Graham Watt has added via satellitephone (italics "off" mode)::::::"TG, the word for my gaff apparently translates to English as "squat"."

When we arrive in Santander next month, perhaps we should divert to go check out the locale ... and try the vino of course ... Graham: just how far west are you based?



////////////Graham Watt has added via satellitephone (italics "off" mode):::::::"Mitch, any further west and I'm in the Atlantic!"

Let's see if the new satellitephone, attached to the drone in the garden, manages to get the italics instructions right for once. Sometimes it's hard to know who's talking when the Quote function malfunctions.

 
 
 Posted:   May 25, 2016 - 3:27 PM   
 By:   Graham Watt   (Member)

Somebody's doing something wrong.

Anyway, I don't want to hog this thread. Any more talk about Faro and Gotland?

 
 Posted:   May 25, 2016 - 3:47 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Too late mr Que. Thread has evolved. Its altered the sat nav from gotland to your gaff and the fact about half a dozen of the forum's cheekiest weirdos have invited themselves to your casa for a devils urine piss up and freebie holiday!!!! smile

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2016 - 4:05 AM   
 By:   Graham Watt   (Member)

Actuallly Bill, I've got a better idea. It's not that I don't want you all here, but none of us have been to Faro (Sweden) or Gotland. Booze prices will be quite high I imagine, but we could make it a semi-cultural holiday, visiting the locations where Ingrid Bergman went swimming near her house in the film Stromboli. The Gulf Stream made the water absolutely sizzle in that one. So, let's say the bar on the corner, Saturday about 6?

 
 
 Posted:   May 26, 2016 - 5:15 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Actuallly Bill, I've got a better idea. It's not that I don't want you all here, but none of us have been to Faro (Sweden) or Gotland. Booze prices will be quite high I imagine, but we could make it a semi-cultural holiday, visiting the locations where Ingrid Bergman went swimming near her house in the film Stromboli. The Gulf Stream made the water absolutely sizzle in that one. So, let's say the bar on the corner, Saturday about 6?


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