(INTRODUCTORY DISCLAIMER FOR NEW INSTALLMENT: Alright, I have a lot of catching up to do on the photos, so please ignore any typos, etc. I am in a Finnish public library with one hour to get all this stuff uploaded, so I am trying to hurry on the keyboard.) This is a church in Hudiksvall, Sweden, on the eastern Swedish coast as I was making my way up toward Finland from Stockholm. I thought it looked cool because of the bulbous steeple, which looked almost like the Russian onion bulb steeples, but not quite. Most Swedish steeples are really steep, like the one in the next picture, so this was something different. I passed this church after staying a couple of days earlier in Gävle, a university town on the coast. I stayed in a hostel there where I became the celebrity of the evening when the receptionist spread word that an American was riding his bicycle north (everyone else there was Swedish). The town had a lot of restaraunts that advertised their American qualities, i.e. "Real American Pizza, Real American Burgers," etc. Our culinary hegemony is nearly complete when Europeans are advertising "Real American pizza." (11-1-04)

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Hudiksvall Church