Sweden Trip 1.6

2 weeks ago, at this very moment, i was soaring through the clouds on my way to Iceland. We landed in Iceland at 6:00am (1:00am our time) on Friday, May 23rd and everything that i experienced over the next 10 days seems like a dream.

We were only in Iceland a short 7 hours, but none the less it was pretty great. (see entry "Scandinavia Lands" for a few more details)









Onto Copenhagen, you may say, "Tim, you already wrote about Copenhagen!" to which i answer in a comanding tone, "yes, i did, but not very much!" SO, Copenhagen was a very nice place. i loved it. it was a beautiful day & it was quite perfect, about 70 degrees & very sunny (i was unfortunately in the shower while the sunscreen was being passed around and i missed out. I was very red at the end of the day). we spent all of saturday walking around this pedestrian & bicyclist oriented city. It is crazy, you have the sidewalk for walking (6 ft wide x 2), the bike paths for biking (8 ft wide x 2) and the roads for driving (5 lanes wide x 2) to cross a street with all of that is exhausting!... well, not too exhausting. I was amazed at how much everyone was out and about enjoying the day. the streets were filled with smiling faces, laughter and an occasional waft of cigarette smoke and i felt that most people were happy to be alive. We went to a few historic buildings such as Rosenborg Slot (the old castle at the center of the city) and a few different churches from back in the day. the amount of history here was awesome. We enjoyed the day by walking some more and then heading to the train station, getting on a train, leaving the country & onto Malmö, Sweden.

We were in Malmö just long enough to find out that the car we were renting wasn't at the train station, but was at the airport instead, an hour bus ride away. (OOPS! glad i didn't have to take the credit for that move)

We got to Göteburg around midnight & it wasn't completely dark yet (just a nice glow on the horizon, which was more to the north than to the west). The next morning, sunday, Aaron's parents came over to his place to have breakfast with us (they were there visiting for the past 2 weeks, very fun to have a mini family reunion all the way in Sweden) We then went to Aaron's church (Fisher's Creek International Church a branch of Fiskebäcks Missionskyrka - fisherscreek.net) where he is the youth pastor. After church we took part in the Swedish tradition of "fika" - "taking a break from work or other activities and having a coffee with one's colleagues, friends, date, or family." We were then invited over to the Jannerland's (practically Aaron's family while in Sweden) house for an amazing Swedish lunch. We headed up to a small village of Marstrand where we took a ferry to Carlsten’s Fortress, which was also amazing.

Monday was our tour of Göteburg by our very knowledgable guide, Aaron Thompson. We started off by walking on the "Postgaten" (the road the Swedish immigrants walked from the train station to the harbor). Just knowing that i was walking on the same road that my ancestors were on so long ago was a pretty cool feeling. We walked all around town, saw many restaraunts, shops and climbed a few hills to see awesome views. i don't think it would be much of an adjustment to move to a place like that.

Now that i've only written about the places that i already wrote about i'll leave you with that for now. Hope this has shown a little more of the amazing awesomeness that i was able to enjoy.

~Timmer