Göteborg

I left for Göteborg with six other people, Nick, Jakob, Brit, Max, Arpad and Doug. We left by coach on Saturday afternoon. On arrival we could see the city was a lot bigger than Jönköping. Tall buildings everywhere. We got off the bus and tried to find our way to our accommodation for the night. Once settled in Max called his friend who was on exchange to Göteborg University, he was able to show us around the city. We went to the city centre, the Mayor’s office, to the theme park with the biggest wooden rollercoaster within Europe. Also here we saw people walking round with giant Toblorone, Daim bars and other sorts of chocolate bars. Sadly not for sale, you had to gamble to win them. Yes that´s how bad the fat tax is here people will gable for a huge three kilo bar of chocolate.
The city is Sweden´s second city and is a harbour city. It was incredibly windy in the city and a lot colder than Jönköping. That night we went out on the town after a few pre drinks we went to try and find a ´pink bar´ sadly we couldn´t find them so we ended up in a student bar where the drinks were cheaper than the bars in Jönköping.

The next day the group split into two half of us went shopping and the other half decided to go round a few sites. My group went down to the harbour front where there was a naval ship to look round and a submarine (sadly no chance to look round that though). Walking along the harbour we came to the Göteborg Wheel, (Their version of the London eye). You get a great view of the city and the harbour however after the fourth rotation you run out of things to look at, with the London eye it goes round slowly so you can take in everything at a nice pace, however the Göteborg Wheel went round quickly so we had about ten rotations in fifteen minutes, Kind of got boring after a while.

In the city´s shopping centre we found the polling station for the general election. A massive area with three huge circles where people went to vote and at the other end were representatives from all the party’s last minute campaigning. (More on the election in another blog). It´s quite hard to find a Swedish flag in Göteborg, the only one we could find was a two foot one for a flagpole for a house.
One night in Göteborg wasn´t enough to get around all the tourist sites. We didn´t have time to visit the Islands off Göteborg or the museums etc but the good news is I am here for the whole year, I don’t have to rush things, I can always go back with other people during the second semester.

Great weekend with a great bunch of people, what more could you ask for?