Gothen burg is Sweden's second largest city, and is located on its west coast. It is a port city.
The train trip was good. Stopping at a number of towns along the way e.g. Malmo, Lund etc. Our first stop was Copenhagens International airport. Pick up a whole swag of Swedes. Once underway two men suddenly jump up, put on high vis tops labelled Customs and egin to quiz everybody and look at their bags.
The landscape was flat, and arable farming was evident. The exact scenary you see when you watch Wallendar (spelling) on UK TV. A lot of the paddocks had there winter crop well established while others were being either worked or had the stubble fafter the harvest. Only saw two paddocks of sheep. Clustered on this landscape were wind generators (usually in clusters of 3 to 5).
Arrived in Gothenburg aroun 3:15 pm. I rea;;y like the concept of having the railway station right in the centre of town. In the case of Gothenburg it led straight into a big mall. Thanks to Evan's GPS on his phone we found our hotel (right on the water front). The hotel room is big with a great indoor balcony with views over thw harbour
This afternoon
it was decided to undertake a different type of sightseeing- Mall seeing. Regan wanted to get a SIM card for his phone (with 1 Gig of data) and Evan was looking for a shirt ( Ralph Lauren -Polo, oxfoed button down, pretty preppy my youngest). Found themat the upmarket NK store for around NZ$ 200. Needless to say he didn't buy. Instead he hops online and get one from the UK for around NZ$140 with a 10% student discount.
In the evening walked over to the old town for a meal- Indian.
Gothenburg has a positive feel to it, lots of canals, cobbledstones and old buildings. Mind you the cobblestones are quickly destroying my bag. Discovered yesterday one wheel is had it and the outside was wearing due it being dragged over the cobblestones. Ah, such is life.
Final reflection: Copenhagen I believe is much over rated. Expensive.
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