Notes from Sweden
We're interupting our normal programming (that is, Soren) for a brief word from our sponsor (that is, me). Sweden has been great so far. We wrapped up the conference on Friday morning. It was a good meeting. Makes me very happy that I've joined this new company.
On Friday, I moved to a hotel downtown Gothenburg. We have one last day of meetings on Monday and so have the full weekend to explore. It has been gorgeous weather - sunny and about 85 degrees! It has been ages since I've been to Europe in the summer. I'm going to need to rethink that in the future - the past two years we've come in the Fall. The off season is much less crowded and also less expensive. But the summer is awesome! All the little sidewalk cafes are such a delight. I don't think I've eaten inside all weekend!
I spent Saturday exploring Gothenburg. I took a boat out to visit Alvsborg Fortress, went on a tour on the canals of the city, and then did an open top bus tour around the city! It was a great day!
It seems that we weren't the only boat heading out on such a great early summer day. Look at all the boats pouring out of the Gothenburg harbor:
You'll see in this photo that some of the bridges on the canal tour are quite low. At one point we went under a bridge called The Cheese Slicer. The guide announced that we'd all need to get down on the floor of the boat so that we didn't hit our heads. I just started laughing - you can see in the photo that the boat was packed! I didn't think there was any way they'd do a tour where all the participants actually had to get down on the floor. But, sure enough, all the people just dropped down to the floor, ducked their heads, and we passed safely under the bridge.
This is a retired ship that is now a restaurant.
Here's the fortress. 
On Friday, I moved to a hotel downtown Gothenburg. We have one last day of meetings on Monday and so have the full weekend to explore. It has been gorgeous weather - sunny and about 85 degrees! It has been ages since I've been to Europe in the summer. I'm going to need to rethink that in the future - the past two years we've come in the Fall. The off season is much less crowded and also less expensive. But the summer is awesome! All the little sidewalk cafes are such a delight. I don't think I've eaten inside all weekend!
I spent Saturday exploring Gothenburg. I took a boat out to visit Alvsborg Fortress, went on a tour on the canals of the city, and then did an open top bus tour around the city! It was a great day!
It seems that we weren't the only boat heading out on such a great early summer day. Look at all the boats pouring out of the Gothenburg harbor:
You'll see in this photo that some of the bridges on the canal tour are quite low. At one point we went under a bridge called The Cheese Slicer. The guide announced that we'd all need to get down on the floor of the boat so that we didn't hit our heads. I just started laughing - you can see in the photo that the boat was packed! I didn't think there was any way they'd do a tour where all the participants actually had to get down on the floor. But, sure enough, all the people just dropped down to the floor, ducked their heads, and we passed safely under the bridge.
This is a retired ship that is now a restaurant.
Here's the fortress. 
Funny story: on the way back from the fortress we were waiting for our ferry which was due in any minute. Sure enough, a boat pulls in and people started getting aboard. We jumped on and then as our ship was pulling away from the dock we noticed that our original boat was also pulling in and loading passengers. Hmm, we wondered...exactly where are we going? We asked one of the employees and she said "Aren't you with the car company?" Seems we had crashed a company party! Anyway, they were able to drop us off back on the mainlaind where we caught a tram back to our original destination!
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