…is the week in the year that Swedish schools have their autumn break. My wife had an opportunity to visit me in Nynäshamn for the beginning of this break and we took Jeppe and “discovered” the surroundings.

Photo: Ösmo Church has origins from the middle-ages and is south of Stockholm in Nynäshamn

Photo: Interior of Ösmo Church with 15th century wall and ceiling paintings by Albertus Pictor

One thing that we enjoy together is to visit churches. Besides visiting Nynäshamn’s central church to listen to a choir concert, we also visited the old churches in Ösmo and Sorunda. If I remember right, both churches are from the middle ages, if not earlier. Ösmo Church is known for the church that the Swedish author August Strindberg first preached, when he briefly had aspirations of being a minister. Sorunda Church is the burial place for the author Moa Martinson, where she lived most of her life.

Photo: Sorunda ChurchPhoto: Gravestone of the Swedish author Moa Martinsson

It was a great weekend and even involved an unexpected autumn market in the central part of the city.