Sweden Photo Gallery - Weeks 1~2

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1 - Crossing the Öresund Bridge
  from Denmark to Sweden		 2 - Red-brick Gothic building
 of Lund University Library		 3 - Cactus greenhouse at
 Lund Botanical Gardens		 4 - Gilded mosaic of Christ in Glory
in dome of apse at Lund Cathedral

5 - Alexanderson electro-mechanical
transmitter at Varberg Radio Station		 6 - The grand façade of Göteborg's
 Central Railway Station		 7 - Statue of Göteborg's 1621
 founder, King Gustav II Adolphus		 8 - Göteborg city trams crossing
 the Kungsportsplatsen Bridge

 
9 - Ambling around the stalls in
  Stora Saluhallen market hall		 10 - Main building of
    Göteborg University		 11 - Feskekörka indoor fish-market
selling all kinds of fish and shellfish		 12 - Göteborg City trams
crossing the canal at Kungspark

 
13 - Lip-stick shaped skyscraper of
 Utsiken towering over Lilla Hamn		 14 - Panorama Göta Älv dockyards
 viewed from Utsiken		 15 - The 40m long Blomsholm
    Stone Ship-setting		 16 - Battling warriors on boats
  on Massleberg rock-engravings

 
17 - The Tanum-Vitlyke Bronze
     Age rock-engravings		 18 - Ritual boat with crew,
axe-men and lur players at Tanum		 19 - 2.3m high engraving of a
 spear-carrying deity at Litsleby		 20 - Litsleby rock-engravings of mounted warriors with spear & shield

 
21 - Engraving with symbol thought to
represent a calendar at Aspeberget		 22 - Bull-leaping figure reminiscent
 of Minoan Cretan frescoes		 23 - Group of 3 axe-men figures
  at Fossum rock-engravings		 24 - Locks (slussar) on the
     Göta Canal at Trollhätten

 
25 - Families join in the traditional
 dressing of the Midsummer Pole		 26 - Traditional folk instrument,
 the Nyckel-harpa (key-fiddle)		 27 - Dry Göta Älv gorge before
 Hojums dam sluice gate opening		 28 - Main sluice gates now open
creating second cascade into gorge

 
29 - The 2 cascades merging into
torrent filling the formerly dry gorge		 30 - Third cascade from HEP plant
merging into torrent filling the gorge		 31 - Rocky bed of gorge now fully
 filled with white water torrent		 32 - Sluice gates now closed and
 torrent beginning to drain away

 
33 - Turbines and generators in
 machine hall of Olidan HEP station		 34 - Bronze Age rock engravings
  at Högsbyn Nature Reserve		 35 - Högsbyn rock engravings with
  backward somersaulting acrobat 		36 - Heath Spotted Orchid
       (Dactylorhiza maculata)

 
37 - Mystical lake-side setting of
      Högsbyn rock engravings		 38 - Håverud gorge spanned by
Nils Ericson's Aqueduct and Canal		 39 - Boat passing through Håverud
 lower locks below Aqueduct		 40 - Boat passing across Ericson's
 Aqueduct above Håverud gorge

 
41 - Boat crossing Aqueduct into
 Ericson's buttressed canal		 42 - Towpath beyond Aqueduct to buttressed canal above natural gorge 43 - Håverud gorge bypassed by
 upper section of Ericson's Canal		 44 - Lower locks and dock basin from
 Dalsland Canal tow path at Håverud

 
45 - M/S Nils Ericson leaving dock for
 passage up through Håverud locks  		46 - M/S Nils Ericson crossing
 Aqueduct into upper canal		 47 - Lifting railway bridge for
boats on Dalsland Canal below		 48 - Tall-masted yacht crossing
Aqueduct below raised railway bridge

 
49 - Railcar crossing trestle-bridge
 high above Ericson's Aqueduct		 50 - Young admirers watching boat
    re-crossing the Aqueduct		 51 - View from Aqueduct as boat
 begins descent of lower locks		 52 - Negotiating bottom lock of
 Dalsland Canal at Köppmannebro
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