Gothenburg

Jacob Redding — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:31:01 +0000

We arrived in Gothenburg by train yesterday. A 5 hour train ride from Stockholm that cuts right through the middle southern half of the country. It was a beautiful train ride filled with everything green. Green trees, rolling green hills, Green grass, blue water.. green, greeny things. Everything and I mean everything is green.

The landscape looks quite similar to Vancouver B.C or the northwest tip of the United States (north of Seattle). the climate is similar too. The outside air temperature is moderate with crisp breezes; well at least I like the call them crisp, I think Diana would say "cold" or even possibly "freakin' cold". Trees are abundant and that is pretty much all you can see when you're outside of the town circle; which is where we're staying.

Around 6pm yesterday the train stopped at Central Station, Gothenburg, the last stop of the line, and we were met by Damien. We met Damien, and his wife Lisa, through Couchsurfing.com. Damien and Lisa were not only kind enough to host us (i.e. give us a place to stay) but Damien also met us at the train station and guided us back to their apartment. This turned out to be quite nice as their apartment isn't exactly in the town circle. In fact its out of town, up a few hills and hidden behind lots of trees which pretty much obscure any view of the town. The view from their apartment, however, is beautiful.

After arriving at the apartment Damien reheated some Lasagne for us as Diana and I stared out the window like two deer caught in the headlights. The view is absolutely amazing (hhm.. maybe i should take a picture). After a quick dinner Diana took a walk around the apartment complex, played on the nearby oh-so-Swedish playground (I'm definitely taking pictures of it) and then came back just after 10pm. Damien, Lisa, Diana and I then stayed up until around 1:30am just talking about random things.

Now its Wednesday morning otherwise known as 2 days before my Birthday!

We should probably get out and see the town.

gothenburg

Gothenburg