As a part of
AgriVenture, for every two months I’m here I get one week of unpaid holidays.
So right now I am using up my 2 weeks of holidays!
DAY 1
I started on
Saturday morning by taking a flight from Visby to Gothenburg. Then I met
another Canadian trainee named Whitney and we spent the day together. We spent
a lot of time exploring the city and grabbing fika! Gothenburg is a much
younger town that most of the rest of Sweden. The oldest building was built in
1648! We went to a couple of cute cafes in the area. I had a chocolate muffin!
So healthy right!?
We met
another Canadian trainee, Kirsti, and organized a bit of what we would be doing
for the next few days. We got to sleep in a relative of her host family’s
apartment while in Gothenburg which was super handy!
DAY 2
Sunday was
spent walking (I walked 18 km)! We visited a really nice church and took a walk
by the city harbour. There was a huge sail boat that they had turned into a
hotel! We took a nice walk through the Botanical Gardens and had lunch there.
We walked through another park and got some ice cream! There was a performance
going on but we got there as soon as it was over.
We walked to
Liseberg, the famous amusement park in Gothenburg. But it was close to closing
time and cost 90 kr just to walk in and look around, so we decided to walk
back. We found a great little (expensive) seafood place. There was a pond right
in the middle of the restaurant with fish in it! We even got to drive a boat
with shrimp on it to our table to eat. We ate prawn, crab, muscles, shrimp and salmon!
It was very delicious. But it was a well deserved meal; some of it was so hard
to crack open and get into before I could eat it!
DAY 3
I was very
happy to be spending Canada Day with two fellow Canadians, but I was still
disappointed to not spend it in Canada.
I tried
marmalade and cheese on toast, total yum! And totally Swedish. I apologize in
advance for grossing you out with my “weird” food habits I will be taking back
with me...
We met
Kirsti’s host dad’s sister (host aunt?) for fika and a walk in the park. Then
we took the Tram (street car) to the harbour. From there we took a ferry to
Branno, an archipelago on the west coast of Sweden. There are many other
islands just like this one. There are no cars allowed on the islands, so
everyone has a bike and/or moped with a platform for storage in the front.
There were only a few restaurants, one grocery store and the tiniest hardware
store. Since you can’t buy anything else on the island, we saw loads of people
bringing over things on the ferry, from windows to fridges! There was an
awesome lookout point that we visited. We were able to get a great view of
Branno and the surrounding islands!
We went to
an American type buffet for supper and had some greasy food! (Kind of
Canadian?) And on our way home we got some donuts for dessert. This was the
only Canadian way we could think of celebrating Canada Day abroad...
Overall the
first three days of my trip were great! Next we headed on to Malmo... Stay
tuned!
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