Scandinavia Day 14 Gothenburg

Day 14 was all about seeing Sweden's second largest city Gothenburg.  We got a gothenburg pass so we could see tons of museums which was great for Lincoln's attention span.

This is how Lincoln was when we woke up

Breakfast in the apartment

The day did not start out well. Zach went down and found a 65 dollar parking ticket.  Turns out he had missed a 10 min parking sign the night before.  The worst part is that paying this thing is a nightmare because they don't do online payments

First stop of the day was the Gothenburg botanical gardens which are the biggest in Northern Europe

We hiked up to the viewpoint and Lincoln loved climbing all the rocks

View of Gothenburg from the top of the hill we climbed

Lincoln in front of the waterfall in the rock garden section

Lovely orchids

Dahlia in the perennial garden

Then we drove back to the apartment and walked over to the Universarium.  It is hard to see but you can see the dinosaurs on the roof of the building

Looking down at the main exhibit

Lincoln loved this stop.  It is kinda a combo zoo/science museum.  In particular he loved looking at the fish

Lunch was on the roof patio with the dinosaurs

Lincoln loved seeing the moving dinosaurs

Walking in the forsest exhibit

In the health section Lincoln got to try rock climbing

Then in the chemistry section he played with blocks

Next stop after that was the art museum.  We were hoping Lincoln would sleep through it, but he didn't so we had a very short stay.  We did see my favorite section on impresionist painters and the Gothenburg artists.  Here is a famous Van Gogh

And a nice painting done by a Gothenburg artist

Then we walked around trying to get Lincoln asleep.  This was a nice building on the main stree

Once he was asleep we enjoyed our coffee in the park while he napped

Then we visited the Gothenburg church on the way to the Gothenburg city museum

The city museum is in the old Swedish Indian Trading company building

The best exhibit was on an old viking ship they had recovered

Then we walked over to the ship museum. There were 18 different ships that you could walk on

Lincoln actually liked his life jacket

Lincoln with a view back toward Gothenburg

After the boats we walked over to the Opera house to see the Jussi Bjorling plaza

On the way to our canal tour we stopped to see the statue of Gustavus Adolphus who said where to put the town

Then we were off on a 50 min canal and harbor bour

The boats are open air and barely fit below all the bridges

We saw lots of lovely buildings on the tour

Then we saw a ship that got stuck in the harbor during repairs because it no longer fit under a bridge

Old shipyard cranes.  The shipyards recently closed down and they are still debating what to do with the cranes

Fish church

And finally we had dinner at a Brewers Beer place.  Lots of good local beers to sample

Really got pizza. This one was pumpkin hazelnuts and blue cheese

Long walk back to the apartment past lots and lots of cool buidlings

We also found ice cream for Lincoln.  For some reason he wanted this cola flavored one

It was a long exhausting but good day so after doing a load of laundry we went straight to bed!