Hello everybody! This post is about our last day in Gothenburg, with was on Tuesday, January 28, 2020. We started off the day with our last breakfast at the hostel, as it will not be open before we leave for the airport tomorrow. Then, we took our last tram and ferry to the same area that was near the Hasselblad company. Here, we went to the Gothenburg Curling Club and went curling! It was so much fun, and much more difficult than I thought it would be! I have many bruises on my knees now from falling on the ice so much! But it was honestly so much fun and one of my favorite activities that we did on the trip!
After about two hours of curling and my team getting the victory, we were set free to do whatever we wanted for our last day! So, of course, my friends and I decided to do some last-minute shopping for some gifts for our families and friends. Before we started going to the stores, we went and got lunch at the Diné burger restaurant that we had went to a few nights before.
After lunch, we stumbled upon another cute new street and found some of the best shops yet!
Then, we passed a local indoor market called Saluhallen Briggen, and we had been trying to go here the whole time we have been here, but it has been closed every time we stop by, but today it was finally open! So, we went inside and wandered around.
It was extremely cute, and they had everything from bakeries, to bars, to seafood counters, to meats and cheese shops.
After the market, we did a little afternoon fika at the nearby Espresso House, then decided to take the tram back to the hostel. On our way back to the hostel, we decided to stop at the grocery store one last time to get some last-minute things and a few more authentic Swedish gifts for our friends and families.
After that, we were pretty exhausted, so we just went back to our room to nap and pack a little bit. Then, we had to get ready and change into nice business-like clothes for our final group dinner of the trip. We took the tram as a group over to the Gothia Towers, which were on the other side of the city, and they are really neat and beautiful when they are all lit up at night!
We went inside, and took the all-glass elevator on the outside of the building up to the very top floor (23rd floor), to where we would be having dinner at the restaurant up there. You can see the lights of the restaurant right under the Gothia Towers sign.
We got up to the restaurant after a very scary elevator ride for me as I do not like heights, and quickly realized that it was really nice, elegant, and luxurious.
We ordered our final legal drinks 😦 and then started off with a charcuterie board for the appetizer.
Then, for the main course, we all had the King’s Sandwich, which is a Gothenburg specialty. It was all pre-ordered by our professor.
It consisted of a thin piece of rye bread on the bottom, topped with hard-boiled eggs, a ton of mayonnaise, and then a mountainous pile of shrimp. I have to admit, it was very good and super filling! I would order it again!
Things I learned today:
- Curling is HARD! Those olympians that compete in it are crazy talented!
- I think one of the things I am going to miss most about Sweden is the food and knowing that literally anywhere you go the food is going to be really good.
- I cannot understand for the life of me how all of the Swedish people are super skinny but they eat way worse foods than we do in America. Like how can you have coffee and cinnamon rolls everyday along with other good and hearty meals and be a size 2?
- Glass elevators on the outside of buildings that go up and down 23 stories while moving really fast are not for me!
- Gothenburg is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen at night when it is all lit up.
Well, that is all for today! Thanks for reading and goodnight from Göteborg!
Nicole's Adventures in Sweden 