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Today I would like to describe my trip to Sweden. Since I visited several locations, it’s going to be quite long – but I hope reading my report is going to be interesting enough for you to last until its end . I include only a few pictures of fossils from each location, because I’m still in the process of splitting the rocks I brought with me. First a few general impressions about Sweden – it’s a super super green and clean country, with lots of beautiful natural reserves and naturally – fossil sites. I was hoping the weather in September would be still good enough to do some fossil hunting and outdoor sightseeing, and we were really lucky, because although the temperature dropped a few times below 10 C, at least it didn’t rain We took the ferry from Świnoujście to Ystad and from there I went to the first location – Brantevik. There is the place where the boundary between the Cambrian and Ordovician is located, so on the beach you can find rocks with fossils from both periods. The location looks like this: And here are some of the finds: The next site was actually the “youngest” among all the locations I visited – it was Ignaberga, an open-pit Cretaceous quarry. I guess it is still operating, but fortunately I was there on Sunday, so nobody was there. It is very easily accessible – and the slopes are literally covered with brachiopods