My parents and sister's family live on Gotland. We try to visit them every summer. Gotland is a large island in the sea east of Sweden. It's a famous vacation spot with good beaches and a walled medieval city called Visby. Visby is on UN's world heritage list. To get there we have to drive across Sweden and take a ferry across. We stay in my parents' summer house in Själsö about ten minutes drive up the coast north of Visby. The house is situated on a ledge above the beach. No swimming beaches close by, only a small fishing harbor and a rocky sea front.

Arrived on Tuesday just after midnight. On Wednesday we went shopping and visited my sister. My parents are on mainland Sweden but will be back on Monday. On Thursday we went to a new beach place near the house and played some minigolf. The kids tried swimming in the sea. It was a bit windy, though. Today the weather was deteriorating so we decided to spend the night in my parents' apartment in Visby. They have just moved to a brand new complex opposite the city wall. Went with the kids to check out the sailing ship "Göteborg" that's visiting Visby. It's a new ship but built as a copy of an 18th century ship that sailed for the Swedish East India Company. It started to rain really hard but we took cover below deck.