June 30th, 2024. Sigtuna & Sala.

Day 11: Sigtuna & Sala

in Sigtuna, Sweden.
Lawnmower roomba in its house!

We left Stockholm to start a multi-day road trip northwest to the Dalarna region. It was gray, cool and drizzly – a change from yesterday’s perfect weather, but not unpleasant. First we stopped in the cute lakeside village of Sigtuna, one of Sweden’s oldest towns (980 AD). Next we went on to Sala, checked into our AirB&B cabin, then did a tour of the Sala Silver Mine, a surprise that Ana booked.

Wow! It was a very intense experience. The mine started in the 1500s and operated until 1908. You go to 60 meters depth, though the working mine went to 155 meters. There is no elevator, it’s all stairs!

I don’t think the pics quite capture the scale of it, but it feels HUGE…like I can’t believe that humans built this, 10cm a day by the old methods. It’s about 37° F and moist. We didn’t get to tour the rest of the grounds but there’s a lot of history to see there.

We closed out the day with good pizza and a tour of a large grocery superstore.

Now driving on to Sala
Our cabin!
— at Sala silvergruva.
We asked our guide Johanna for a local dinner recommendation and she sent us to a great Neapolitan style pizzeria where she used to work. Apparently in Sweden you do not share pizzas, so we each got our own! Rob got a kebab pizza and I got sausage/mushroom/pepper.
— at Höga Grader.

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