Green Foxy's summer 215

A walk in the
 town Umeå

Part 1
2018

The centre of town

I made some guided tours in town. I was sick when there was a guided tour in the centre of town. Later i made the walk without a guide. Different days. I also put in some older pictures.
2018-08-27. Some days the sun was shining and I had my green jacket.
2018-09-15. Some days it was raining and I had my orange rain jacket.
2018-07-19. The central railway station.
2018-08-03. The old hotel. A listed building.
2018-08-03. The modern culture house and the old renovated hotel.
2018-08-03 A bank behind the park on the other side of the street. the building is listed.
2018-08-20. A listed house. I think they have offices in the house.
2018-08-20. A listed house. This is an Italian restaurant.
2018-08-20. This house was a gym. It's renovated and freshly painted.
2018-09-15. The doors of the gym.
2018-08-20. The old tower. In former times it was a power station. Later it was a fire station. Now there are courses (classes) and there is a café in the house.
2018-08-27. The park and the culture house. The library is in this house.
2018-08-27. The tower house. Listed.
2018-08-27. The tower house. Listed.
2018-09-04. A bank. Listed.
2018-09-04. The west side of the old town hall. There is a restaurant in this house.
2018-09-04. Stores behind the park.
2018-09-05. A bank.
2018-09-07. Aschanska villan (A villa is a one family house) Listed.
2018-09-07. Aschanska villan (villa is a one family house) Listed.
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2018-09-15. There is a guitar museum and a restaurant in this house.
2018-09-15.  In former times this was a school. They are planning to make it as a school again.
2018-09-15. The backside of the guitar museum.
2018-09-15. The opera house. The sky was so dark. The picture did not went out so well
2015-05-27. A better picture of the opera house.
2018-09-15. In former times the brown house was a fire station.
2018-09-15. They have a shop in this house
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2018-09-15. A multi-storey car park. This building is new.
2018-09-15. A multi-storey car park. This building is new.
2018-09-15. Here they are building a high house. The trains are going on this viaduct.
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2018-09-15. The new public baths. You can swim here. And there are swimming classes for school children.
2018-09-15. The new public baths.
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2018-09-15. The backside of a hotel. In former times this was a school. Listed.
The front of the hotel. This picture of me was taken 2017-06-02. Listed
2018-09-15. This is the new local bus station named "Vasplan".
2018-09-15. Vasaplan.
2018-09-15. Vasaplan.
2018-09-15. Folkets hus. (People's House)
2018-09-15. The entrance of Folkets hus. (People's House). There is theatre, art, movies and there is a restaurant.
2018-09-15. Visit Umeå. Here tourists, and also we who live here, can get information about things worth seeing.
2018-09-15. The store Utopia.
2018-09-22. At this date they had the opening of the new Vasaplan. They put up a sculpture of bronze. They are two siblings.
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2018-09-22. I like the hooded boy very much. He is sitting on a backpack.
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2018-09-15. The park by the store Utopia.
2018-09-15. The park by the store Utopia.
2018-09-15. The park by the store Utopia.
2018-09-15. A little fountain in the park.
2018-09-15. They had a food taste marked. Västerbottens museum had flat bread and also bark bread. I did taste it.
2018-09-15. New dark clouds were coming.
2018-09-17. The main street named Storgatan.
2018-09-17. Stores in old houses at Storgatan.
2018-09-17. This old house contains a fish shop and fish restaurant. Behind the old house a high modern hotel.
2018-09-17. The store Konsum at Storgatan. This summer there was a badger walking here, very early in the morning. We don't know how the animal came to the centre of town. There was a video of the badger in our newspaper.
2018-09-21. This is a grocery store name ICA Gourmet. On the top of the building is a hotel.
2018-09-21. This high building is hotel Plaza.
2018-09-21. The house is listed. In former times it was a fruit shop. Now they only are selling chocolate there.
2018-09-21. This new building is a garage for bikes. You can rent them. These bikes has a little battery that can help you bike uphill's. We call them electric bikes.
2018-09-21. The store. Naturkompaniet. The sport shop there I use to buy my Fjällräven clothes.
After the walks in town I took the bus home. The bus was not there yet when the picture was taken.

Photo: Ove and Wilhelmina Schedin

Wilhelmina Schedin 2018-10-02