Falun

I homestayed for about three days in Falun and I just think it’s amazingly pretty. We went out canoeing on a lake, got onto a little island in the middle of it with lots of wild raspberries and an abandoned house… I was about 16 at the time, lived in Hong Kong (city) all my life and it was just the greatest adventure ever for me. The people I stayed with are really lovely and they arranged so many things to do and places to see. There’s other things that I remember, like visiting hte copper mine, visiting a place where they make those Swedish wooden horses, a nature park and such.. but I really did love that lake. I definitely want to go back!

Oh and those photos of red houses are the “real” photos of Falun, Sweden! Not the Falun Gong ones…!!!

The photos already in place for Falun look more like Falun Gong protests than Falun, Sweden, but perhaps I was in Falun on the wrong day.

The massive heritage site featuring the old copper mine was one of our main stops, of course. Ever noted all the red houses in Sweden? Here’s the place that’s responsible.

The cobblestone market place/plaza was another historic thing that drove home the point that we were in Europe. Capping the day? Dalahästen, of course!