My last post was sad, so I think we need a happy post to balance it, so here’s a throwback to my visit to Europe in 2023.  One of the things I was told by Swedish friends in New Zealand that I absolutely must do whilst in Stockholm was to go to Skansen. Luckily Elisa fully agreed with them! Skansen is the world’s oldest open air museum.  It helped inspire places like Colonial Williamsburg, and is so iconic that ‘skansen’ is literally the word for an open air museum in Czech. It features buildings from different eras from all across Sweden.  Some of the buildings are only viewable from the outside, but other are open on some days, so you can go inside. The open buildings have docents in clothes matching the era and type of building doing work in keeping with the building.  All of the docents had a particular interest and expertise related to the building and its purpose.  It was fabulous.  Nerdling that I am I asked the hosts 18 gazillion questions. …