Uppsala

We traveled north to the University town of Uppsala.  The town has one of the oldest universities in northern Europe and one of the oldest cathedrals.  It's built on a lovely small river.  The architecture is different from Stockholm, less monumental but in the same tones of rose and ocher.  The University was the home of Carl Linneaus, the botanist and zoologist who invented the system for naming plants and animals.  It's also been the home of much other scholarly research.  The was a bike race through the town while we were there so parts were roped off as incredibly good looking and toned bikers went whizzing by at high speed.  There were also lots of students walking and biking.  Uppsala is about an hour outside of Stockholm and we took the train there.  Once we got past the suburbs farms with horses and sheep dotted the land.  The fields are now a lush springtime green, verdant and fresh.  This part of Sweden was home to the Vikings; one must have had to be hardy to survive here.