{"id":13025,"date":"2020-07-04T21:25:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13025"},"modified":"2020-07-07T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T21:07:23","slug":"daily_1999_-_gotland_day_5_-_faro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/07\/04\/daily_1999_-_gotland_day_5_-_faro\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1999 – Gotland, day 5 – F\u00e5r\u00f6"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA full day of F\u00e5r\u00f6.<\/p>\n

The ferry trip, which at peak times can involve hour-long queues, went quickly. Gotland in general seems to be relatively empty of tourists right now. Today the weather is wet and windy so almost nobody wants to make a day trip to F\u00e5r\u00f6. We shared the car ferry with just 5 other cars.
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\nInitially we had a somewhat structured plan for exploring the island, but in practice F\u00e5r\u00f6 is so small that you can criss-cross it repeatedly in an hour. So we just drove wherever we felt like.<\/p>\n

First we headed south and wandered around Ryssn\u00e4set for a bit. It was seriously windy. We found more fossils, and plenty of tiny clams.
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\nFrom there we turned north to see the rauk<\/i> at Gamlehamn. It’s got a large, individualized rauk<\/i> icon on the map so it’s got to be impressive!<\/p>\n

The famous one is vaguely dog-shaped one with two supports. It had many companions, and all together they made for an interesting place: the rocky coastline was broken up and varied, not like the straight and even stony beaches we’ve seen before. This place really invited to scrambling and jumping from rock to rock.
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\nAfter lunch we drove east to F\u00e5r\u00f6 lighthouse. Not a very interesting sight. But at the end of the road, beyond the lighthouse, there was a wonderful sandy beach, which we had all to ourselves!
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\nThe weather was still windy and the water was pretty cold. Eric and Adrian took a very quick dip and then stayed on the beach instead.<\/p>\n

Ingrid however absolutely loved this! The cold didn’t bother her much, and the beach was made extra wonderful today by waves. Well, they weren’t large waves on any absolute scale, but for a kid who has had to make do with M\u00e4laren and Kyrksj\u00f6n and other very placid bathing spots, this was exquisite fun. She jumped the waves for a long, long time. I stayed with her for as long as I could, sharing her enjoyment. We kept looking for the spot with the best waves. Ingrid cheered every time we got one that was large enough to break into foam and was literally jumping up and down with excitement. Afterwards she said this was the highlight of the whole trip for her.
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\nAfterwards we took the long way back towards the ferry harbour, driving past the rauk<\/i> area on the north-west side of F\u00e5r\u00f6. Eric and Ingrid had had enough of rauks<\/i> and rocky coasts by now so towards the end they stayed in the car while Adrian and I went out to climb and scramble among the rocks (and take photos).
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\nParts of the coastline here looked like something from another planet. There was water, and there were rocks in various tones of gray – and nothing else. Not even the smallest sprig of grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A full day of F\u00e5r\u00f6. The ferry trip, which at peak times can involve hour-long queues, went quickly. Gotland in general seems to be relatively empty of tourists right now. Today the weather is wet and windy so almost nobody wants to make a day trip to F\u00e5r\u00f6. We shared the car ferry with just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,775,15,773,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-eric","category-ingrid_johanna","category-outdoors","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13025"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13035,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions\/13035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}