There are just a couple more days left on blogging from Sweden. So with time at a minimum I thought it was high time I did something I've always wanted to do......and that would be to climb "the wall" which wraps itself around the city of Visby Gotland.
This desire started when I was about 7 years old. I would look at a place mat photo that my grandmother had in her kitchen and I would tell her with great confidence,"I'm going to climb that wall one day!"
"What will you do once you get up there?", Gram asked.
" I will see everything and look all around because I will be as tall as the sky."
This conversation went on like this for decades. "Aren't you ever going to stop thinking of climbing the wall?" No, I replied. "One day I will just put a tall ladder to this wall and climb up". Gram just laughed and said,"I won't be surprised when I see you there then."
Many years later when I had grown quite a bit and was actually in Visby I found this hidden set of stairs. I bet this goes to the top of the wall, I thought. So up I went and.....it led to the top of the city. It still had a great view but not the view I was looking for.
A few years ago the city of Visby built ramparts to climb to the top of the wall on the Northside. So on my morning walk I vowed that today , in all it's splendor, I would climb the wall and be as" tall as the sky."
So Gram.....this ones for us. I made it ....I am as tall as the sky. Enjoy the view.
Look at the sky view of the city.
Hello down there...you mere mortal !
