Last week we went to see the 5 000 year old rock carvings beside the waterfall at Glosa. It's a place where you can well imagine the people of the Stone Age celebrating a successful hunt and taking their time to leave their mark.
We stopped on the way home for ice creams at Wangen ("a national center for education and development in Swedish trotting" :) We didn't see many horses, I think they must have been, like us, on their summer holidays.
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Hey Nea...what is this national center for education and development in SWEDISH TROTTING? It's nice that you take the girls to so many interesting places.
Hi Ruth, Lasse, Miss T and Strawberry. Is Glossa the place you showed us some years ago with very early line drawings of animals and boats, including, if I remember, what appears to be a tortoise?
I like the photograph of the prehistoric horse. Eohippus Equus, I presume.
Much love, Pa.
P.s. Got Matt staying with us until tomorrow. He has been, as always, a great help, and indeed a tower of strength to us over the last few days.
P.s. Sorry, I made that name up. Part Greek and part latin roots. Mean dawn horse-horse. Probably near enough.
Pa.
Beautiful countryside - reminds me of the Waters of Shin in Scotland. Has that horse got its winter coat on?
Hi Lori,
Trotting or harness racing is really big here in Sweden, and Wangen is a college for training students who want to work with what is probably the biggest equestrian sport here.
Mike and Ann, I think you'll find the correct term is "hyracotherium", I have notes here on my desk about it written by Strawbs. She researched this last week :)
Glad to hear Matt is being good, so's his little sister... very good.
Well done Pat, you caught me. We visited the rock carvings back in May and again last week. These shots were all taken back in May.
And yes, Pa, this is the place.
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