10/26 - Gothenburg

Woke up to find that it was raining pretty hard! Lame. Oh well, it's laundry day anyway so it shouldn't be too bad. I walked to the southeast of the city, basically the museum district. Was thinking about seeing the Universeum, the tour guide said it was a 'family friendly museum for nature lovers' Not too sure about the whole family friendly thing but I do love me some nature. It looked pretty cool from the outside, like a big greenhouse with an indoor mountain. I walked in and immediately walked out. Strollers, everywhere. Little kids, everywhere. I was probably the only person between the ages of 13 and 30. Nope, sorry. That's a bit too family friendly for me.

Went down the street where there was a modern museum. Not a modern art museum, but a museum that deals with events in current history, basically the last 50 years. It didn't open for half an hour so I figured I would explore a little bit more. Walked along one of the rivers running through town. Really relaxing even though it was pouring with rain. Saw the local soccer stadium and circled back.

The museum was really unique. It has exhibitions on deforestation, revolution, the emergence of hip-hop and even a small section about heavy metal in the middle east. I was wearing my At The Gates shirt, and immediately two people ask me if I worked there...middle aged people can't know the band is from here, right?

The rain hadn't let up by this point so I figured it would best just to go back and start my laundry. Huh, just realized that was the last time I washed my clothes....should probably do that soon. Anyway, wandered back slowly and saw this cool tower on top of a big hill. Climbed to the top and saw an amazing view of the city.

Spent the rest of the day inside unfortunately. Laundry took a lot longer than expected and I also had free internet so I caught up on news (daily show). At night the rain finally stopped so I went on a photo walk and took some pretty cool night pictures.

Disappointing that my only full day here was marred by rain but I realized if there was one day it had to rain during my trip today would be the best. Lazy sunday, laundry day. And it didn't rain any other day on my whole trip so it really worked out amazingly well.