Category: Gothenburg

Summer break 2025. Adventure. Part 6 of 7 days.

Friday July 25th.

Today we checking out from our lovely apartment hotel…

A bit stressed to take a picture from checking out…

I woke up this morning with a text message from the company I should travel with tomorrow. They have some issues with the train tracks..  😔. And today find a new tick was hard. I guess many people was trying at the same time 🤪.

We took the bus into the train station and found a locker to okay price off 69sek t hour and if you need more time you pay 69 sek / hour after that. Maximum payment is 299 sek for 24 hours.

We catch a tram (number 6 or 9 (I don’t remember). On the way out of the tram I got a hotflush 🥵🥵 . I didn’t have time to say anything to Annica so she started to walk to the shop we had planned while I tried to just past the tram track 🤪😔😵‍💫🤢. Because I was dizzy & nauseas.

But we got what we needed a bit later 😆 than planned. We had lunch at MAX Burger, a must for me when I’m in Sweden.

2.20 pm we huged and said goodbye and will travel back home. Me first to Oslo where I will stay with friends I haven’t seen for four years. And my friend Annica travel back to her family.

Bye bye Gothenburg this time.

Hello Oslo.

Arriving Oslo 6 pm and it was as hot as in Gothenburg 🥵. But it was nice to take the metro east bound to my friend and her family in the suburb Bøler. Just enjoying being with friends I haven’t seen in four years. Eat late dinner and talk about things.

Summer break 2025. Adventure. Part 4 of 7 days.

Wednesday July 23rd.

Starting later today but with breakfast and Coffee on the “balcony”. It’s a bit more grey clouds this morning but the around the same temperature (+23°C) 10 am.

Today’s goal is the botanical garden.  Something the both of us love. I don’t have much that looks like a garden at home… but always dream of something I can make a garden in or off. And today we’ll walk in a huge garden and receive even more idea’s or just inspiration for a future garden 😉.

The weather forecast today is grey and cloudy but it’s predicted to be up to +28°C even today. A good day for this kind of adventure!

We catch a local bus down to Brunnsparken and switch to a tram towards The botanical garden. We took tram nr 2.
From the tram stop, you walk up to the main road and past it (walk over). And on this side of the road you find this sign.
On your walk (straight ahead) you past those (cute) interesting houses with decor.
The entrance to the botanical garden.
This is the area = the garden.
Information in English.
Information in German.

We past the gates 12pm. And stroll slowly through this magnificent garden. We had really good weather! A good combination of ⛅️🌤☀️ and wind and a temperature between +23° and +26°C.

And here are some of the flowers I liked…

The botanical garden. 😊

Through the school garden and interesting tree garden…

… I had to stop to cool down my feet’s…

” Over heated feet’s “
Our lunch around 2pm in the shadow 😊.

After the lunch we walked towards the Japanese garden.

And when we came to a fence we thought we would end up in an other smaller garden but we didn’t 😆. We walked through the Nature Reserve and ended up in a street with houses 😆😆 and had to walk back the to the garden once more.

The Nature Reserve.

And now it was time for 🚻 (toilet facility) and water to cool down, rest on the grass and ice cream. And a kind-of-power-nap in the grass.

While laying in the grass the wind got stronger and suddenly we heard the thunderstorm getting closer. (Around 3 – 3.30 pm). And had to walk faster to not get wet from the sudden 🌧 rain 😆.

Tram back into the city but not to Nordstan, but to Grønsakstorget (the vegitable square). Rain pooring down and yes we didn’t take our Rain jacket with us 😆.  Grocery shopping and walking in the rain to the closest tram stop to get back to the hotel.

On the tram back into the city.
Waiting on a tram after grocery shopping.

Late dinner out on our ” balcony ” and yatzy with wine in the chill breeze after the thunderstorm and rainbow 😊. A perfect evening!

Summer break 2025. Adventure. Part 2 of 7 days

Monday July 21st. Switching from the train to the bus 06.10 am and it was raining 🤪 but luckily the ☀️ was up in Oslo 07.30 am.

Good morning Oslo.

07.55 am. Espressohouse.

Here am I normally have my breakfast when I travel. But they didn’t have my favourite so I have to be satisfied with just a simple espresso.  And maybe that’s smart after the sandwich I had on the train… because my stomach is upset.

I have one and a half hour in total here at the train station hub until I have to catch the bus to Gothenburg at 9 am (one hour from now).

Central Station Gothenburg.

It’s warm. +27°C , 1 pm.

I will just find a place to sit and wait on my best friend from (childhood) Sweden. She arrives 1.30 pm. The breeze is nice so this will be perfect.

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Me and my best friend Annica (since 1989).

We had lunch in the city after both of us been traveling we were starving. Ate at BK (Burger King). Bought tickets and headed towards the Waterfront Cabin Hotel which is placed next to the water with a lovely view!

Our home for 4 nights. Waterfront cabins.

We have settled in and got our coffee and can now make plans for this evening and tomorrow. 

After check-in and some food we headed into the city again, around6 pm, even if we to tired to do much 😆😆😅..

Got back by bus. Made dinner and after both if us got annoyed on the (a bit to small couch for two aduldt ladies above 5″9) we moved it 😆😅. The appointment we have rent for four nights is perfect for this kind of trip/Holiday. It has some challenges if you as us are tall people 😅. But for the most it works.

To be able to stay awake at least until 11 pm we found some series to watch. Then it was good night!