We have officially spent our first night in Sweden and boy did it feel good to get a good night sleeping. Our hostel supplies us with a breakfast and the different diet was very interesting. The breakfast was very different that what i’ve experienced in hotels back in the states, it was not just donuts and waffles, but had healthier options as it was fantastic breads and cheeses with peppers and deli meats. But the real highlight of our day when it comes to food is we went to the world famous fish church.
This is where we started our tour off for the day, it is called Feskekôrka or more commonly called the fish church. This market gets its name only due to the divine fish it was selling and serving in the restaurants upstairs, but for the structure of the building. It was built in a way to allow the building to have no post supporting it, the result of this style architecture is a step peak that resembles what most of us associate as a church.
Next to the fish market is this stone wall, we learned that this the last remnants of the walls that surrounded the city when it was fortified. Gothenburg is a port city where the King wanted to defend the city from the Danish army, the 7 meter tall walls stood protecting the city for over 200 years with zero invasions. There is still large parts where the mote that surrounded the wall is still there, both are very special to the people of Sweden as that represents their history.
The next stop on our tour was the statue of Poseidon, sits on a fountain and is by the city theatre on one of the most popular streets in the city. The city has a large sea presence through out it, there are seafood and nautical inspiration everywhere you turn.
One of our last stops of the evening was stopping at the highest church in Gothenburg, with a beautiful view as you could tell from the photo. It was a wonderful bus ride up the hills to the church with the rocks surrounding it.
To end our bus tour of the city we stopped by a really cool neighborhood called Haga where we got some warm drinks and cinnamon buns. they are called Kanelbullar and are different from the ones we have in the states, they are very strong cinnamon flavor with instead of icing on them they have sugar crystals to make it sweet, very delicious but still prefer its American cousin.
We had an open dinner tonight and got to explore the shops towards Haga and landed on a fun pub for dinner that has arcade games, I was able to get an American style cheeseburger and it was delicous
My Daily Take Aways
- Way more people speak English than I thought before.
- Swedish food is much more natural that American food.
- Cinnamon buns in Sweden don’t have icing, and do have tons of cinnamon on them.
Matt travels to Sweden 