Landsort - July 20 th

The small village.  The 28 permanent inhabitants are either pilots or work on the ferries.

A WWII relic.  Typically swedish with the seats to admire the view.

The very full harbour.  We are the rightmost yacht in the harbour. 

The Swedish favourite summer pastime is watching the sunset.

And this was the snset we all watched.

Landsort, the village and pilot station on the island of Öja, divides the N archipelago (Stockholm's) from the South archipelago.  The village grew around the mediaeval pilot station and is still based around the pilot station.  The island was only opened to foreign visitors in 2000.  It is strategically important for protecting access to Stockholm and so is full of WW2 and Cold war installations mostly underground but still some guns to see.  It's also full of raspberries so I picked enough for tea and breakfast and very tasty they were too.  We enjoyed both the island and chatting to our neighbours ..... a young family on a typical Swedish motor boat, not fast or flashy but very practical and a couple of about our age with two teenage Afghani refugees on board .... just about the first teenagers we've seen on boats. I've decided they are all down below on the internet or on their phones.