.8 km today to arrive at our next hotel. Despite (or perhaps because of) adjusting our schedule around, we ended up with two nights in Oskarshamn, but our hotel didn’t have a vacancy for our additional night.
After storing our luggage temporarily at hotel #1, we walked into town to visit the Maritime Museum and the Döderhultarn Museum, both conveniently located in the local library.
Axel Robert Petersson (1868-1925) was known during his lifetime as Döderhultarn. Axel was one of Sweden’s most famous wood artists, and lived in Oskarshamn.
Before and after the bar
We also found this amazing 3D globe on the library. I want one!
After that we stopped at a market and had lunch in the church yard. Walking back, artists have painted murals on the sides of many of the buildings.
The reasonably-priced accomodation we relocated to was purchased and remodeled by the formerly Syrian owner only a few months ago. The building that is also the local train station. There are only three rooms, if only because they’re huge.
This is about a third of the room. Our room has an echo! There’s also a kitchen and shared bath. The shared bath is less of a problem for a place with only three rooms.
We had dinner at the restaurant below our room (with the same owner). As we ate, today’s ferry from Gotland arrived. We had a dinner show of semis, cars (and cyclists) unloading and loading. Hopefully we now know the exact process for tomorrow.
Having made it this far, I’ve gone ahead and made hostel reservations in Helsinki and Tallinn. Intermixed there are two nights on a ferry.
We stopped for lunch on a bench at a park with a nice view of a garden, a church, and a painting of a jar of pickles.
