Lerkaka

Mormor and Morfar came to pick us up again on the Monday after our great weekend, but before we left Öland we decided to make a little sightseeing stop together, to see something else than just the camping this time!
We drove to Lerkaka, to see the famous windmill row.

These windmills are part of one of the most preserved rows of windmills on Öland. They are so called post mills where the entire millhouse can turn around the central supporting post.

The first mills on Öland were probably set up at the end of the Middle Ages, and in the end of the 19th centure there were some 2,000 windmills on the island. Every self-respecting farm had its own windmill back then. Only about 400 mills now remain, as monuments of the primary industry of the island.

Old and new:

We had some fika in the sun before it was time for us to leave Öland, and the Petersen-Jensens went off in a hunt for some 'loppis' out in the countryside!