In my town Trosa we live since ancient times on tourism. In summer tripled our population and many tourists come to visit the city.
It feels like we hand over our city in tourists and summer visitors’ hands and say -Here you have our city, return it in the fall when you go back home.
I feel like a stranger in my own city in the summer. By autumn, when everything is back to normal it feels great to once again recognize the people I meet on the town.
To live on tourism, I have tried to capture in a drawing. Like the Norse gods, who slaughtered pig Särimner time and time again, we “slaughter” tourism every year, and then we live on that “food” rest of the year.
I min stad Trosa lever vi sedan urminnes tider på turismen. På sommaren tredubblas vår befolkning och många turister kommer på besök till staden.
Det känns som att vi lämnar över vår stad i turisternas och sommargästernas händer och säger -här har ni vår stad, lämna tillbaka den i höst när ni reser hem igen.
Jag känner mig som en främling i min egen stad om somrarna. Till hösten när allt är som vanligt igen känns det väldigt roligt att åter känna igen folk jag möter på stan.
Att leva på turismen, har jag försökt fånga i en teckning. Likt asagudarna, som slaktade grisen Särimner gång på gång, “slaktar” vi turismen varje år och lever sedan på den näringen resten av året.
Anna
Trosa tourism, Nordic vikings, Inga Lindstrom films and old runestone
That is the problem with tourism, Anna.
Leslie
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I agree. But it is nice that our town gets visitors too.
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There’s a good and a bad to it.
Leslie
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Indeed 🙂
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A fine analogy
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Thank you 🙂
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It reminds me of nearby beach town called Gokarna. which doubles its population in winter. In summer no one likes to live there as it is very hot and humid
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Interesting. In our city moving the year-round residents to the archipelago and summer residents move to town.
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While the tourists flood in during the ‘season’, we get tourists all year around. However, spring and summer is the heaviest.
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How nice. I like the quiet part of the year in our town, but I wouldn’t wish for that silence all year long. It’s nice when new people come to town, but it’s nice when they leave after the summer also 🙂
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The summer is filled with events but events are year around here. Spring and summer are filled with tourists but there are always backpackers, hikers, cyclists (this is home of The Tour de France)… We are never without tourists but there are times when they are less invasive. Many stop for a night or two and can be seen at the cafe. 🙂
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We have events around year here too, but smaller ones in winter. Some tourists come in winter, but the invasive ones comes summer times 🙂
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I’m afraid that if I ever got there it would have to be summer as I don’t do well in the cold. 😉
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Summer is a beautiful season here for tourists 🙂
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Reblogged this on TROSA-SPEGLINGAR.
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Those poor little tourists, lured in by beauty and vistas, only to be slaughtered. Hopefully they spend lots of money before heading off to market! 😃
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We like tourists, what can I say 😀
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Mmmm, tourists! Tasty!
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Haha LOL!
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Yeah? I am sorry about that.
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I’m only kidding. We take good care of tourist and really like when they come and visit our town 🙂
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OH!
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😀
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I would go during the fall and/or winter!
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That can be beautiful seasons here 🙂
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I can image!
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Your gods sure seem to be looking forward to their feast 🙂
You’re already seem to be quite influenced by tourism, dear Anna, painting your poor vikings with those horns on their helmets O.O I hope they at least have a kettle full of mead out of sight 😉
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LOL! 😀
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Nu har jag varit igång i natt igen……..
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Det är ju jättekonstigt!
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