The Daily Walk to School
The sign is for a yet-to-be-built apartment building that will be constructed on the site of this parking lot in 2013/2014 |
A closer look at the railway containers used as accommodation for construction staff |
The underpass that takes me underneath Rabyvagen (a major road) |
The other side of the underpass - construction is going on here too but in this complex it seems to be refurbishment of existing apartments not construction of new ones |
It's a horrible mess over here and I expect that 'our side' of the road will be in a similar state in the year/months to come when construction gets going on the new buildings |
The white building is what is going to be built in the parking lot on our side of the main road |
One of the nicer old buildings (that I wish I lived in!) on the way to school |
I pass two gyms on the way to school - SATS is the first (I hear it is very expensive) |
Friskis and Svettis is the second - both are franchises with several outlets in town |
the doorway on the corner of the building in the middle of the photo leads to an indoor shopping centre with an ICA (grocery store), Systembolaget (liquor store), movie rental place, optician etc |
A favourite second hand store where I got my winter coat for 125 kr (about $19) |
The spires of Uppsala's famous cathedral |
Lovely old building - it was a dairy and now it is offices |
The Uppsala concert and congress hall - not sure how I feel about its architecture |
Sivia Torg - only notable because it is the place where the first Asian food store I learned about is located (although it is certainly not the best) |
Vaksalagatan goes underneath the railroad tracks and on to the main square - on the other side of the main square (Stora Torget) it changes into Drottninggatan |
City Hall - another architecturally unimpressive building in my opinion |
Looking down Kunsgatan (king's road) toward the central station - that's city hall on the left |
Uppsala seems as obsessed with tearing up streets as Victoria - just to the left of the car in the photo is a small street where my gym is located |
Stora Torget (the main square) - the bus is heading back down Vaksalagatan toward my part of town |
In the NNW corner of Stora Torget is Ahlens department store |
In the NNE corner is this business school with Nordea bank on the ground floor |
In the Northern corner is Radhuset - a fancy shopping center with a very nice toilet (free!) |
Detail of a doorway at #2 Drottninggatan - I realize now that this is where I slipped and fell a few weeks after these photos were taken |
A closer view of the cathedral - nearly at school |
The river - looking SSE |
The river looking NNW |
The doorway to our building is in that arcade beneath the signs (Optik, Cameo etc) |
Drottninggatan 4 - my destination most weekdays |
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