Arctic Circle Return-2015
Return to Falun to visit the city.…
As the parking was nice and BIG and also free we returned to the mine and parked up there then set off into the city….
Leaving the mine we came very soon to some of the older property in the town while it was possibly inhabited by the Miners & their families these houses have been greatly expanded as you will see a bit later…..
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Coming into the city centre we see one of the old Swedish Telephone Boxes….
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While the older houses appear all over the lower part of the city….
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We then come to Kristine Kyrka…..
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As the importance of the city is reflected in the inside of the church…..
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One of the Coats of Arms inside the church…..
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While in another part of the city we see this Joker on a fountain….
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As we then find the original Miners House in which he lived with his Wife & 5 Children! Well come on, there was no Television in those days!…..
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While making sure there was no one at home we looked in through the windows and saw…..
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The door on the left side in the next picture did lead out to the outside….
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As we saw the other side of the door when we looked over the fence….
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Fire station….
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While further over we see a number of streets with wooden houses in but all of them have been expanded from the original Miners homes….
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As we saw when one man invited us to have a look in his ‘backyard’….
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The left hand side building in the next picture was from when the Coppermine was operational but was all boarded up and looked to be no longer in use, while the site was being used by SWECO….
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As the river ran past…..
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Next we came to the old ‘Booze Warehouse’ as the Miners received part of their wages in Liquor, but the building which had Metal covers on all the windows is now being used as a central archive for the Coppermine…..
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Fresh Water Pump House…..
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As the Tourist Information Office was virtually outside town, we went into the Bibliotek to ask a few questions which was decorated for a children’s event that was due to take place…..
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The Dalarna Horse….
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Then moving from the lower part of the city…..
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We make our way to the upper part and the affluent section in which all the land was originally owned by one man. This part of the city is called Bergalid…..
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While we think the large building at the rear was his Mother’s house…..
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As we then see a statue of a lady who won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature….
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As we pass a very large wooden house which was opposite to the Hospital.
Falun was the first city to get a large size hospital due to the number of accidents in the mine, in fact the city got it’s hospital before Stockholm did…..
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Back down on the river and time for lunch in a Fairtrade Café in the Bibliotek which was very pleasant and not expensive….
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While up in the city square as they get ready for the National Day celebrations we spot this old Volvo in very good condition….
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While a little bit further away is Barbie’s Street Cleaner!
I always thought she was a ‘Lady of Leisure’?
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Making our way back to Falu Gruva and the car park we pass this Skate Board & BMX Park….
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After a short trip we come to our next campsite Lesjöbyns Camping which to be honest we found to be a bit run down in terms of facilities.…..
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Next stop involves some ‘Pisted’ roads as we are heading to meet some friends who live here in Sweden and we met in Portugal last year, so we will see how the roads go!