göteborg

We made it to Götheburg today at about midday, after saying Goodbye to Helgi and Emma.  Helgi plays football for Borås, who are currently second in the top league here.  Their unbeaten nine-match winning streak came to an unfortunate a one-nil end yesterday. We were there for it and Helgi won the player of the match however, which means he gets to drive their sponsor’s Porsche Boxer for a few days.  Nice car :-)  I mentioned a while back that I could easily get back into liking football again and this was another point in favour of that.  The stadium we were in was pretty small (I think it seats about twenty or thirty thousand), but the view was awesome.  We were close enough to the players that it was easy (even with my eyesight) to see the expressions on their faces, but far enough away to see the big picture overview of the play. I had fun there, which while not exactly a surprise, was more than I expected.

So Götheburg today was nice.  The weather was warm, with temperatures in the mid twenties, and clear skies. Forecast for tomorrow is for slightly cooler (~20°C), but clear and sunny, which helps.  It rained yesterday in Borås, a lot, and we couldn’t explore the town as much as we would have liked. Still, we did discover that Swedes (Svear in Swedish) have great taste in coffee, and like sweets.  They really like sweets apparently.  We were in a supermarket and about an aisle and a half were taken over by sweets. Liquorice forms the basis for a large quantity of Swedish sweets, and that was evident throughout about fifty percent of the sweet aisle. The coffee shop was also chock full of different pastries too, though there wasn’t time to check them out in detail.  We’ll get to that soon enough.

Right now, we have checked into out hotel and are chilling out for the day.  We’re both pretty tired, so we’re going to just take it easy for a while.  We ate earlier in the Hard Rock Cafe, though that wasn’t a planned decision.  We found ourselves on the Avenyn (actual name is Kungsportsavenyn) which turned out to be far more touristy than we had hoped it was going to be.  So, instead of looking for a restaurant somewhere else (we were hungry!) we just picked Hard Rock Cafe.  We’ll start the cultural tour tomorrow then ;-)