Omslag Engelsk UA.Indd 1 2010-02-03 15.40 the Doors to Our Gotland Are Open
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Welcome home! Welcome Bromma/Arlanda Welcome about 35 minutes Nynäshamn about 3 hours Slite There is only one Gotland. home Visby Living here is a privilege. Oskarshamn 3 hours Growing up here is a gift. Calling it home comes naturally. Welcome home. GOTLAND – HAIME Hemse www.fl yttatillgotland.nu omslag engelsk UA.indd 1 2010-02-03 15.40 The doors to our Gotland are open. We don’t live on a mystical island that only exists for a few warm months in the summer. Just under sixty thousand people live here all year round. Many more call it home in their heart ❤ CONcEPT, TEXT AND DESIGN: Bild&Reklam Annonsbyrå and Oss Reklambyrå PHOTOS: Marcus L Johnson, Bildvision, Stig Hammarstedt, Gunnar Britse, Kalle Melander, Birger Andersson, Mats Jansson, Roland Hejdström, Åsa Ekedahl, Bildproduktion Gotland, Gotlands kommun, Malin Ericsson, Henrik Reintz, Johnér Bildbyrå, Robert Matton. PRINTER: Alfaprint AB omslag engelsk UA.indd 2 2010-02-03 15.40 OTLAND IS CLOSE. Three hours by sea and 35 minutes by air. You don’t need to G get up an hour early to get the children to school and nursery. Distances are small enough for many to get home for lunch if they want on any normal working day. You’re usually close enough to spontaneously drop in on a friend for coffee. Most things are close at hand on Gotland. Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 1 2010-02-03 10.09 Fire station Airport Golf course New apartments Racket hall Visby curtain wall was completed in 1288 Norderport Visby Good tobogganing slope Cathedral Visby Hospital has sea views Sea front promenadeBotanical garden Kruttornet Underwater Almedalen ledge Wisby Strand Congress & Event Kallbadhuset ocean club Beach welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 2 2010-02-03 10.09 Skarphäll City shopping centre Östercentrum Solbergabadet shopping centre pool Österport Gutavallen stadium Water tower Bus station Stora Torget Theatre Söderport Governor’s University and Residence library Guest harbour Palissaderna park Fishing port Small boat harbour welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 3 2010-02-03 10.09 SEASONS ON THE ISLAND To many of Gotland’s permanent residents, – GOTLAND ALL YEAR the island is at its best at the very end of ROUND the summer, when the water is warm and the outdoor bars and cafés are still open. The children tear around on the football pitches and an evening ride on horseback is all it takes to prove that life is great. 4 welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 4 2010-02-03 10.09 w We give you the keys to our Gotland. welcome home 5 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 5 2010-02-03 10.10 6 welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 6 2010-02-03 10.10 Others insist that Christmas is not Christmas if it isn’t celebrated on Gotland, with the traditional Midnight Mass and a Christmas Day stroll by the sea. HOW DO WE LIVE? We are often asked how we live on Gotland. We live like everyone else. On an old farm or in a new home, in an apartment or a house, in the country or in town, in a renovation project or something newly designed. Close to the sea or inland. How do you live? welcome home 7 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 7 2010-02-03 10.10 8 welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 8 2010-02-03 10.10 Fett stille – dead calm welcome home 9 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 9 2010-02-03 10.10 Our spring – can be your spring LADINgEN – SPRINg Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 10 2010-02-03 10.10 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 11 2010-02-03 10.10 ’’ Once the fi rst signs of spring are here, things usually move fast, except for the stubborn ‘staräurar’, seven snowy weather fronts that traditionally need to pass from the fi rst arrival of the starlings before winter has completely released its grip on the island. welcome home 12 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 12 2010-02-03 10.10 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 13 2010-02-03 10.10 14 welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 14 2010-02-03 10.10 A gOOD TIME hen the famed Gotland light OF LIFE returns, nature explodes in a Wblanket of tender green shoots. Blue and then white carpets of anemones adorn the Gotland meadows. They aren’t protected and can be picked with or without socks and shoes on. This high season for early growth is a time for picking ‘kaiplök’, a kind of wild leek packed with vitamins that is said by Gotlanders to be a great way to banish the winter blues. welcome home 15 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 15 2010-02-03 10.10 The limey soil makes our root vegetables sweeter and longer lasting than those grown elsewhere in Sweden. Asparagus, wild garlic, potatoes, carrots, beetroots and parsnips do particularly well. Here on the island we’re spoilt when it comes to eating local produce of the very best quality. w They can be seen everywhere, the lambs that help to keep the landscape so open. 16 welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 16 2010-02-03 10.10 It isn’t long before the outdoor cafés and bars spring up and meetings are more often outside than in. A real sign of spring is having the season’s first ice cream at the classic café down at Visby harbour. If the golf clubs have been packed away at all, they are now quickly dusted off. Baby lambs bleat and the closeness to nature encourages many people to enjoy the great outdoors together. A little stroll w Artistry? Our upper secondary art students have been invited to decorate becomes a major experience. postal drop-boxes in Visby. welcome home 17 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 17 2010-02-03 10.10 18 welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 18 2010-02-03 10.10 w Asparagus, one of Gotland’s prime early crops, is harvested by hand. welcome home 19 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 19 2010-02-03 10.10 We like to call Gotland the Island of Sport. The broad support for sport is particularly w ‘Staräur’ is a popular clear in the spring when the Kvartersligan Gotland concept used to determine the coming of league starts up – a major football competition spring. The principle is that for local children. At this event, the social the starlings arrive first, usually in January-February. aspect and having fun are more important Then seven low pressure weather systems need to than the actual results. pass, alternating with periods Everyday exercise can be done differently. of high pressure. The low pressure systems may bring Countless people commit themselves to either heavy snowfall or just the odd flurry. Counting the walking around Gotland – a little bit at a staräur is a popular pastime time. Some do it with friends or family, others in spring. There have to be seven before spring is in a more organised form through a club. properly here. 20 welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 20 2010-02-03 10.10 welcome home 21 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 21 2010-02-03 10.10 w On Gotland sheep don’t have lambs. Here, sheep are called lambs. And their offspring are therefore called baby lambs. Fagninggblåmmar – wood anemones 22 welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 22 2010-02-03 10.11 On Gotland, May is welcomed with in Sweden at attending study circles. the song Sköna maj (Beautiful May) This may well be an expression of by university students and an amazing Gotland curiosity, a desire to keep number of choir singers. Choirs are learning all the time. It’s that curiosity a prime example of the island’s lively that has led us out into the world tradition of clubs and societies. since Viking times. It may also be an Every parish on Gotland has masses indication of how much the people of of such associations, and the people of Gotland enjoy getting together. the island are traditionally also the best GOTLAND IN BRIEF Length: 176 km (Fårö-Hoburgen) Width: 52 km Gotland’s coastline: 800 km (incl. Fårö) Province flower: ivy (rindi in the local Gutamål language) Province animal: hedgehog (pinnsvein in Gutamål) welcome home 23 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 23 2010-02-03 10.11 Gotland summer holidays SUMMAN – SUMMER Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 24 2010-02-03 10.11 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 25 2010-02-03 10.11 ’’ So not everyone has miles of sandy beaches to choose from on a sundrenched summer’s day? Not everyone can pop down for a dip in the sea after work on a balmy August evening? welcome home 26 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 26 2010-02-03 10.11 Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 27 2010-02-03 10.11 28 welcome home Hela inlaga eng UA Best NY.indd 28 2010-02-03 10.11 EVERYONE ll those things that other people pay to KNOWS ABOUT THE travel to and experience are just part GOTLAND SUMMER. A of our everyday existence. And we FOR US IT’S THE promise that we do appreciate the summer.