A 2-day trip around Göteborg

Initially, the plan was to go to Stockholm for this weekend, however we managed to discover that there's a ticket to Stockholm for November that is going at 6 times lower the price. So, we decided to have a change of plans, and we took a 3-hour train ride to the western coast of Sweden, to the city of Göteborg.

Göteborg is one of the larger cities in Sweden and it really is much much more livelier than Lund is. Should have gone to Göteborg University for exchange man. Haha, but I dun think it has the courses for me though -__-"

So we were there got 2 days and it was really filled with fun... and of course, excitement esp on the first day when we went to Liseberg - the largest amusement park in the whole of Scandinavia. The roller-coasters were quite shiok, much better than those in Ocean Park in Hong Kong haha. But as usual, I don't dare to sit the rides that swings. Cannot take those things. And there were bumper cars too!! It's been a super long time since I even get to see the bumper cars, not to mention riding it.

But before we went to Liseberg, we had to look for accommodation to leave our baggages. And we decided on Spar Hotel after we purchased the Göteborg Pass which allows us to travel on any transport for the 2 days and allows us to stay in the hotel as well.

*Göteborg*

*flags for sale*

*Spar Hotel*

*both our rooms*

*my room*

*ready to go*

*but it was raining*

*traveling on electric trams in Göteborg*

*clement, kaihong, me in the electric tram*

we visited the Science Centre called Universeum. Quite a large place with lots of things to see, and we even got to enter Singapore!! What I mean by that is that they have a "Rainforest Zone" and it really feels like we are back in Singapore, cos it's so warm in there.

Universeum

*Universeum*

*still raining*

*me, clement, benedict*

*the elevator going upslope*

*in the elevator*

*squeezing everyone into the picture*

*foxes in the dark*

*bee hive*

*baby shuwan*

*adult shuwan*

*mini waterfall*

*i like this picture*

*and this one too*

*the large aquarium*

*life in the large aquarium*
*all of us*


*the manta ray*

*i'm above the manta ray*

*the rainforest zone*

*all of us in the croc's mouth*

*my body temperature*

*mr spaceman*

*driving our Volvos*

*mr policeman*

*interesting toilet instructions*

After our tour around Universeum, we headed for Liseberg, the amusement park which is like 10 minutes walk away.

Liseberg

*Liseberg*

*all of us*

*me*

*pretty flowers*

*Main Entrance*

*photo with Liseberg's mascot*

*walking in to the amusement park*

*bumper cars*

*me, clement*

*the Balder roller-coaster - it's a crazy ride*

*this is madness too*

*fairy tale land*

*dunno wad this fairy tale is*

*me, clement after fairy tale land ride*

*taken from the viewing tower*

*jazz concert for the night*

*i didn't dare take this... hum ji*

*on ferris wheel*

*rainbow ride*

*funny mirrors*

*a swedish kid with me*

*panda vision - smth like our omni theatre*

*our rides passes*

*night view of the amusement park*

*night view of Main Entrance*

There was also a Ghost House that we went into, and it's so much like our Fright Night for orientation camps haha. So I kinda expected where the ghosts would come out from. But the coolest part of the whole Ghost House is that there is this room that rotates and make u feel like u're falling into the hot incinerator. I think it's all an illusion but it felt vv real. Good job man.

So it was the end of Day 1 in Göteborg, was so tired that i conked out the moment i lie on the bed.

Day 2 was the city sight-seeing tours for us. We went to various places such as the Fortress by a guided boat tour ride, followed by a guided bus tour around the city as well. Shopping was also done on this day at one of the larger shopping centres there but still, things were very expensive there. Only managed to get 2 long sleeve tees at a cheap price haha. While shopping, I was thinking, "D&D must be on-going right now, it should be quite fun over there at D&D right now". Haiz, and yeah, everyone was in their movie costumes attire! So nice. And Emily looked funny in the jap soldier costume HAHA.

Anyway here are the pictures taken on the second day...

Around the city

*breakfast*

*me, kaihong, clement*

*deep thoughts*

*a larger X marks the spot again*

*the opera house behind me*

*the harbour*

*clement, benedict, me, mylene, huimin*

*this ship is a hotel*

Guided boat tour

*maritime museum*

*nice clouds*

*the seaman's wife - a WWI monument*

*bridge*

*4 grey baby swans behind 2 white ones*

*on boat tour*

*benedict, me, huimin, mylene*

*me, kaihong*

*kaihong, benedict, clement, me*

*us*

*wad is clement doing sia?*

At the Fortress...

*the fortress*

*me, huimin, mylene*

*she's giving a speech... in swedish -__-"*

*cannons*

*me*

*me, clement, huimin*

*the cannon ball's exit haha*

*facing the sea*

*drummer and knight*

*us with members of the fortress*

*these are used on prisoners who try to escape twice*

*on top of the world*

*clement, me*

*kaihong, huimin, mylene, me*

*us*

*us again*

*leaving the fortress*

After leaving the fortress, we shopped and then went for our guided bus tour on an open-top bus.

*roaming around*

Guided bus tour

*the bus*

*the seaman's wife again*

*this used to be a mast-producing building*

*one of the prettiest churches around*

*another church*

*a crown at the top*

*all kinds of buildings in the city*

*Göteborg University*

*statue of Poseidon*

*Poseidon is behind us*

*trams on grass*

This is their largest stadium, holding a record attendance of more than 63000 spectators. And it was said that the whole stadium started to shake when all the spectators were jumping in excitement, but fortunately no accident occurred and the stadium was repaired after that.

*at the top of the city*

*just us*

*time to go back*

*the railway station in Göteborg*

So that's the end of the tour in Göteborg, and finally the end of this entry... School's starting soon this Tuesday. Hope I still get time to tour around like this. Looking at my course schedule, I feel like fainting haha.