Ibis City Gothenburg

Nu har vi vaknat upp här hemma, nöjda efter gårdagens firande. Känns helt rätt att bli avvinkad med vänner och skumpa i en jättetrevlig bar! Jag (Jossan) är särskilt nöjd med att få så fin feedback över mina resrädslor och har nu lärt mig att vi i själva verket har en enormt välplanerad resa och att inget kan gå fel och att OM det går fel finns det proffs på flygplatsen som tar hand ...

<br><br><br>Ja här är en av väskorna som ska få äran att förflytta våra ägodelar till andra sidan Atlanten! <br><br>Det är onsdag idag och vi tar oss ner till Malmö på söndag för att flyga från Köpenhamn på måndag. :) <br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br>Och här är lite bra-att-ha-saker...<br>

Gothenburg proved to be a delightful second city. It was full of ethnic restuarants, shopping, and public transit in the shape of a tram or trolley. It's probably one of the only cities that doesn't have an underground. Even though it's Sweden's second largest, it's still feels quiet and small. I hiked to the top of a hill where there was a fortress that had been ...

... atmosphere. <br><br>This festival had a main outdoor site on Friday and Saturday, as well as club shows around town from Thursday-Friday. This made for very late nights&#8230; The first day I met up with Ben and Bevan, we attempted to get our festival wristbands, which would give us entry into all the shows. We walked a long way&#8230; maybe I did see a bit of Gothenburg. Luckily the weather cooperated with our chosen mode of ...

... Magnus scored us tickets at face value!!) at the local stadium just minutes from our apartment, with 55,000 other fans!<br><br>                <br> 

... website said they'd be open until 6pm, but in Sweden there are these things called "Summer Hours" where basically anything can be closed at any time. The Mailboxes Etc. was only open from 11-3 and we arrived at 4:30. So, we continued to our back up plan, going to the Novotel and faxing from there. I was dropped off at 5:30 and made my way across town. Fortunately, I knew the way by now.<br><br>I got there at 6 and ...

... på klipporna, olivciabatta med mozzarella, parmaskinka och italiensk salami. Glass och hemfärd på eftermiddagen och snabbt stopp hemma med duschning inför kvällens middag hos just Jonas och Sofia. Grillning i trädgården och småprat i soffan. Dagens drink:...Mojito

... Sweden's best hotel breakfast - a very large buffet selection allowed Gavin a meagre 4-course meal of starter, main course, egg course and dessert. Tor adopted the Pizza Hut approach and only required 2 courses! Our room, like the rest of the hotel, was beautifully organised and decorated. If it didn't cost so much and we didn't have so many other places to see and visit I think we could have been tempted to stay for longer! We checked out leisurely ...

... is Britta. MY LUCK! (I am notorious for having good luck, though I rarely deserve it) Thus Britta had been found and we were invited us back to her place. We sat on her porch while she showed me pictures of Axel and the family and discussed our filial connection via Åsa as translator. It turned out the my Great Aunt Elsie and her children Kim and Karen had popped up at her house back in 1993, so Britta was quite used to long lost Amerkan Vesterlunds showing up on ...

... we had even discussed staying another day in Gothenburg...but for many others, their entire trip plans were thrown into disarray. Volvo quickly reminded the situation by giving loaner cars to all those that wanted them for the rest of their trips (thus they would not drive their own cars at all) or they offered to put the rest of us up in another (5 Star!) hotel for the night and would bring us back the next day to finish up with the cars...Needless to say I am ...