Fieldtrip to Falun

from view point. the pit was enlarged by a massive collapse of several shaft walls in 1678. Fortunatly it was Midsummer holiday so the thousands of workers who would have been inside were off that day.

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Wow. Anyone visiting Sweden really needs to visit this landmark of a town. Now a World Heritage Site, it was once the capital of Sweden because of the productive mine that once supplied most of Europe with copper, gold, silver and other valuable ores.

The stories we heard on the 1 hour tour into the mine would take me pages to relay but I have all the brochures to share when I return home. I kept thinking how Colin, Meri and Allen particularly would love this place for its rich history.

Our visit included the Mine, Museum, and afterwards our accompanying professor, Maria, took just us Canadian students to the oldest surviving cafe in Sweden, where I had hot chocolate and traditional Swedish cake topped with green marzipan. Though none of us cared for the marzipan back home, we all found it delicious.

A historic sketch of the mine.

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Returned on Friday for a full day with Per's and his planetarium which he set up in the museum attic.  The bus there is equivalent to 5 CAD and the busses here are all like coaches back home, tall backed fabric covered seats, and the most pleasant voice states in a Mary Poppins tone "Neshten Plats..." to announce the next stop.