On 10th May 1998 Connie Lindqvist
set sail for the Baltic island of Gotland in her 30-foot gaff-cutter
Vemara and berthed in Visby at midsummer. Connie devoted
the next three months to following in Linnaeus' footsteps from
anchorages and small harbours all around the island. In December
1998 the sketches from her Linnaeus Journey went on display
at the Rye Treasury. The plan was to simulate the trip
on the web by uploading Connie's sketchbooks, photographs, logbooks
and journals from her Gotland Journey on a day by day basis between
May and September 2003 or 2004 so that others could experience
her Linnaeus Journey...from the comfort of their own armchair.
Meanwhile Connie would set off on her second journey in the footsteps
of Linnaeus by following his 1741 Lapland Journey. This would
have brought her back to the town of her childhood...Moinio in
Finnish Lapland...which just happened to be the final destination
of Ilbereth, Nicholas John and the motley cast of characters
in the Crocodile Uppsala Tales...
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