2-3 giugno ( non ho diviso per date!!!!sorry!!)
We ended up in this city by chance because we decided to leave at the last moment. I've always been fascinated by the Nordic countries and when I saw the Ryanair flight that perfectly suited our needs I decided to take advantage of it! Gothenburg is a very quiet city and it has no subway. It's served by a super efficient tram line, which makes everything very suggestive and lets you enjoy the view of the city even while you're getting around. The main street is called Avenyn and is the beating heart of the whole city. It's full of shops of every kind, restaurants, clubs, cafes... and it reaches all the way to the sea, where the city's port and some small, human-scale little harbors are. Moreover along the street there's the largest shopping center in all of Sweden, called Nordstan. It's a city full of green spaces crossed by small navigable canals that lead to the sea.
The inhabitants spend their lunch break in spring-summer lying on these gardens bringing everything they need for lunch, including wine and glass goblets! The gardens are always full of people lying down relaxing and I later discovered that for them it's really a moment of true relaxation they would never give up! Just think that until May there was still snow! Right under the largest bridge you find on the Avenyn (the Kungsportsbron) boats depart to do the tour of the canals I mentioned and they reach all the way to the port. You pass under numerous bridges: under some of which you need to lie down on the floor of the boat so as not to hit your head! You also sail a bit along the main river called Frederikshavn until you reach an imitation of the Brooklyn Bridge and then you come back.
Along the route you see a large sailboat, a naval museum inside a warship (also visitable on the inside) and some areas where ships are readied (since Gothenburg is also a large merchant port, one of the largest in Sweden). After this boat trip we decide to have lunch too, lying in one of these gardens with our takeaway food bags! Another thing to do is visit the great Tradgardsforeningen garden: an enormous garden exceptionally well kept, there's not a single blade of grass out of place! full of very well-tended corners with many species of flowers and with large and very elegant greenhouses containing many species of plants.
I recommend visiting the rose garden, very beautiful! The Haga neighborhood is also nice to see: a narrow, long cobblestone street with lots of typical little shops on the sides, restaurants and everything else! Somehow you manage to come out at one side of the great river where there's a large Ferris wheel and the famous building shaped like a lipstick! We continue along our riverside route where we also find the opera house and at the end a small, very characteristic little harbor from which boats depart for who knows where...but not for the islands! There are many nice little restaurants here! From there we take an elevated transparent tunnel that leads us to.....guess where? inside the huge shopping center!!! clever these Swedes!!!! We take an aperitif with all the time in the world (Swedes stop working at 5 and, from that hour on, all the cafe tables are packed and it's hard to find
a seat to have something to drink! You find them all there with big mugs of beer or lying on the lawns!!!!!!) and then we get a recommendation for a place to have dinner and eat typical Swedish food! They recommend Smaka!! In fact there I eat the famous little meatballs with mashed potatoes, lingonberries and I don't know what else! If you happen to be there in the same period as me, ask for a table outside: it's daylight until 11 pm so while you're having dinner it's broad daylight and it's a very strange thing!!!! It never gets dark! you almost regret going back to the hotel! The next day we got the Gothenburg card (it was worth getting it the day before) and first of all we take the City Sightseeing bus and it takes us on a nice tour of the whole city, even up the hill and also in some panoramic areas.
After the tour we go visit the Universeum: a huge science, technology and nature museum where inside there are immense aquariums and some environments are also recreated such as a real rainforest! There are lots of animals in semi-freedom! It's really well done and requires about two hours for a complete visit! Free entry with the Gothenburg card! Next to the museum there's the Liseberg Park, that is the largest amusement park in Sweden.
After that, a visit to the Botaniska Tradgarden botanical gardens which is truly beautiful and well kept; they say it's one of the best in Europe! There are so many paths to walk and many panoramic points to discover! Wandering around the city there are many strange buildings like the one where the fish market is located: from outside it looks like a deconsecrated church! From then on we treated ourselves to some healthy shopping, aperitif and little dinner! after dinner in one of the many little restaurants, we take a walk on the Avenyn where there's a festival with live music and stalls! so much so that until 11 pm it's daylight! I recommend visiting this town because it's truly human-scale and really quiet! The things to see aren't that many and so staying 3 days was more than enough for me, unless you want to visit the nearby little islands, which by the way they say are beautiful! un
fortunately due to time issues we weren't able to! If you have any questions contact me!!! bye!
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