Month: May 2023

After the leaving the out of fashion void of the Röhsska Museum, we made an emergency stop along the Vasagatan to infuse Ella with a much needed Frappuccino.  Then we maundered into the Haga district where we found ourselves at the foot of what is termed “a mountain” in the local parlance.   At the top of…

Post by Ella Because not 5 minutes later, we were chugging up a steep winding path to a lookout tower with views. Apparently I was enjoying the Frappuccino so much that I didn’t take a picture of it but here’s the tower. Grubb posted more about this place. My only goal in this post was…

Post by Grubb. But that didn’t stop me from suggesting we check out the Gothenburg Fine Arts Museum.  The first exhibit on the second floor should have been a warning. As we made all the hallway connections there were enough old masters cropping up to make me pause and be wowed.   But the majority of the…

Post by Ella After breakfast (tell you about that tomorrow because it deserves pictures and I was so taken with all the people and food choices, well no pics), we ambled on down to the Palm House, about a 20 minute walk from the hotel. Set in lush gardens, a green house featured many types…

Post by Ella A little store we passed while walking around Gothenburg. Well, you’ll see…

Post by Grubb Göta älv, or “River of the Greats”, drains the Vanern, a Baltic ice lake, into the Kattegat, an inlet connected to the North Sea.  Upriver at Trollhattan Falls, Gota Alv supplied the hydropower for the steel factories that were part of Sweden’s own Industrial Revolution.  Here we’re looking at it from the rooftop bar…

Post by Grubb No city we’ve been to so far.

Post by Grubb. The Haga is an old neighborhood in Gothenburg not far from the docks on the south side of the river.  It was originally a working class section of town.  Now its well-preserved wooden houses and streets allowing only pedestrians give it a nineteenth century feel with small cafes and stores selling antiques at twenty-first…

Post by Ella In the Haga district, we ducked into a little cafe for coffee and pastry.  I left Grubb to order and went to grab a table outside. Grubb comes out with a tray. A small chokaball (intense fudgy chocolate with nuts and rolled in coconut flakes) for me and a big bowl of pea…

Post by Grubb This morning we took the train from Malmo to Gothenburg.  It was a two-and-a-half hour ride, but we were traveling first class (highly discounted for seniors) so it was very comfortable.  When we arrived in Gothenburg and emerged from the station we found ourselves in the middle of a noisy construction zone that looked…

Post by Ella Bear in mind, these were taken from a high speed train through a train window.

Post by Ella Yes showers. Love them here. It isn’t that you can’t get these features back in the states (for a premium of course), but here it’s standard. So far. Our shower here in Malmö . The knob at the left end of the bar has two settings: turn the knob up and you…

Post by Grubb. While we were slurping up our fish stew in a restaurant off a central plaza in downtown Malmo, it was invaded by a mob of teenagers in white captain’s caps.  At first I thought the young crew to a cruise liner had docked and were celebrating a port of call.  Then I found out…

Post by Ella We attempted two museums in Malmö today. Grubb posted about the museum in the castle we visited this morning. Our second museum today, Moderna Museet, was forgettable. Maybe because it was the second museum of the day or maybe nothing captured my attention. As evidence, this is the single photo I took….

Post by Grubb. Late this morning we walked to the Malmo Art Museum located inside the Malmo Castle, a Renaissance fortress of thick brick surrounded by a moat in the center of the old city.  Their current collection of Swedish artwork took us from the late sixteenth century to the present day.  The colorful modern pieces dispelled…