A Modest Music City on Sweden’s West Coast: Gothenburg
Gothenburg Travel Guide, written by dear Nilay Kılınç, It is an article that we read fondly and then embarked on Gothenburg plans.. It is a place where we suffocate him with kisses due to the information he gives and his wonderful expression.. Greetings! By the way, don’t forget to take a look at the second part of the series for places to visit in Gothenburg, eating and drinking, shopping, nightlife suggestions and more
When it is mentioned, people of our country are greeted with a smirk and say, “O what’s your name?” would have prompted the reaction of Gothenburg. Fortunately, we have moved away from this dialogue with the students and festival audiences that have gone recently.. This port city, which has finally emerged from the shadow of Stockholm and started to create its own mass of travelers, seems to be one of the most popular routes of the Scandinavian peninsula. The e-mails I received after the Sweden: On Malmö, Lund and Gothenburg interview article previously published on OitheBlog were also supportive of the interest I mentioned.. That being the case, we decided not to leave the distinguished readers of OitheBlog in suspense any longer.
I determined this content by taking into account the questions I was exposed to during my visits to Turkey.. So the simplest grandmother question, “Where are you walking around in that cold?” with the barista dude, “Where’s the V60 brewing?” I’m talking about a wide range that can satisfy your curiosity. While you are visiting the city as if you are a local, you can say “To me more than usual!” You may feel the urge to say!
Information That Will Remove Distances and Warm Up Distance
- Gothenburg is a city that can be sympathetic to both Istanbulites and Izmirians. Like Istanbul, the sea passes through the middle of the city and there is a bridge.. You can cross the bridge on foot or by bike.. There is also a conflict between the Anatolian and European sides or Karşıyaka and Göztepe.. (Now I’m going to play football from here, I thought I’d make your way) Gothenburg’s biggest club IFK Göteborg is known by the nicknames of angels or comrades. The smaller rival club GAIS is known as the mackerels, which I think is a hit for a fishing town’s football team. There is also a ferry to the Islands if you wish. Instead of simit tea, you can buy kanelbulle (cinnamon bun) and coffee and go to one of the big and small islands.. But they haven’t trained their seagulls, they don’t fly close to the ferry, they don’t even react to the pieces of cake you throw.. If you ask how you will win the hearts of the people of Izmir, we can say that Gothenburg is the Izmir of Sweden.. If Stockholm is Istanbul, Gothenburg is the second largest city competing with Stockholm, more modest, with different words such as core/crocus, bagel/crispy!
- Gothenburg has its own dialect (Göteborska). Stockholm Lüler, who claims to speak standard Swedish, mocking the Gothenburg dialect also sounds very sympathetic with its Göteborska melodicism and syllables.. The native pronounces the word Gothenburg as “yöt-te-boğ-ri”, sounds exotic, doesn’t it? Stockholm, on the other hand, has no clue.. In other words, “I just got back from Yötteboğri, sweetie!” so it’s football reporter glory calling Liverpool “livipuul” (you remember it was one of the big events of 2001.)
- Vikings followers know that the show is actually a branching out of the original saga. Anyway, sir, as you can see in the series, the geography of Bohuslän is very important in Viking history, namely the west coast, including Gothenburg.. This area, where Danish, Norwegian and Swedish Vikings both fought and made love, became the entry point for all foreign products coming to Sweden.. So Gothenburg has always been a multicultural and trendsetter place.. For example, coffee entered Sweden for the first time in 1685 from the port of Gothenburg, if not the flag bearer of innovation, what is it?
- Only to Gothenburg, untouched by the Nordics. “What does this place remind me of?” on some streets during your visit to Gothenburg. you will be the opposite. After the Danes burned and defiled the city in the early 1600s, the Dutch are rebuilding it. They experience city building, the ancestral sport of colonial monarchies, in Manhattan, that is, New York and Jakarta, and establish the same order in Gothenburg.. Therefore, Gothenburg has an atmosphere of both Amsterdam and Manhattan with its canals and some street-house arrangements.. This kind of urban layout does not exist anywhere else in Sweden.. In the seventeenth century, Scots settled in the city, English and French diplomats said, one of the most common names in Gothenburg is the Celtic name Kenneth! Today, Gothenburg is also nicknamed Little London, due to the influence of the settled English and Scottish families on the city.
- Although Gothenburg, as a port city, has hosted the wealthy part of the country, there is also a very strong working class culture.. Mine workers, factory workers, fishermen are often associated with Gothenburg.. Stockholm and its environs are made up of people trying to get ahead, it’s important to be urban.. But Gothenburg is a place that prides itself on its working-class identity and it still feels the same today.. Two of the country’s top ten universities; Home to Gothenburg and Chalmers, Gothenburg is both a worker’s city, students, wealthy and humble.
- Gothenburg’s proletarian spirit Besides, his musicianship is one of his most prominent identities.. The modern folk poet Cornelis Vreeswijk, the heart of the city with his acoustic works. Håkan Hellström, which we can call Sweden’s Teoman, is a name identified with Gothenburg. Let’s suggest a movie based on the story of Hellström, starring the music and the city, Känn Ingen Sorg För Mig Göteborg (Don’t Cry For Me Gothenburg). The Cure is one of the cult bands of Sweden, Broder Daniel, the god of electronic indie The Knife, Little Dragon, Timo Räisänen that we can’t stop listening to lately > and Jose Gonzales are the children of this city. The reason why I count these is clear: I wanted to erase the padded pop school of the 90s, Ace of Base, from Gothenburg and a little bit of our memories.
- Now what makes Gothenburg the most interesting for me is I would like to talk about the feature. When Sweden is mentioned, metal music comes to mind, but I haven’t seen people like this in two years! It was either metrosexuals and Barbie dolls, hipsters or hip-hopers – until they came to Gothenburg.. Gothenburg is a place where instrumental music is still cherished, where people of all styles roam and do not despise alternative lives.. Turns out that Swedish metalsmith prototype’s territory was Gothenburg! Giants such as Dark Tranquility, In Flames, Evergrey, Graveyard are also out of here.
We Solved the General Culture, Now We Can Be Tourists! Getting to Gothenburg
There are two airports in Gothenburg. One is on the Hisingen Peninsula, on the European side, and it is also called Göteborg City Airport – Säve Flygplats. If you are staying in the Hisingen area it makes more sense to land at this airport. Since Ryanair planes usually land here, it seems like you are unlikely to land here from Turkey.. This airport is approximately 16 kilometers from the city center, if we take Central Station or Brunnsparken as our hub. The price is 79 SEK (about 27 TRY). Since the public transport network is very comfortable, you can also come to the city by bus and tram.. Get off at Hjalmar Brantingsplatsen stop by bus number 36 (in the direction of Hjalmar Brantingsplatsen) and look at the tram lines for where you want to go from there.
The other one is Sweden’s second largest. The big airport Gothenburg Landvetter Airport and Turkish Airlines planes land here. Since it is on an empty land unrelated to the city, you can only go to the center by the airport’s own buses.. You can buy the ticket from the machine next to the bus stop or from the counter, which is open Monday-Friday from 10:00 to 18:00 (here at the domestic terminal).. It is very simple to use the automatic machine, so I say buy it directly from there.. With your credit card, you can buy a ticket for 8-17 year olds for 79 SEK and an adult ticket for 95 SEK (33 TRY).. You’ll arrive at Central Station in half an hour.
If you need to take a taxi, it costs at least 300 SEK (103 TRY) from Landvetter to the city center, but some taxi drivers can charge around 400 SEK.. For example, if you are 4 people and your luggage is heavy, you can choose a taxi, it will be almost the same price as the bus.. It’s simple, you write fixed fares on the windows of every taxi, day and night.. For example, from the airport to the city, it is usually 300 SEK during daylight hours.. But if you ask the taxi driver, he can give you a price of 450 SEK, so check the fixed prices first and bargain accordingly.
You will visit Gothenburg from the surrounding cities, take a long distance bus or you can also use trains. If you want to go to other Swedish cities or to Copenhagen and Oslo by bus, now I would like to give you a golden piece of information.. Nettbus! This bus company sells the cheapest tickets and you can travel very comfortably. You can get your tickets on this site:
Train is more expensive than the bus, but sometimes there are affordable tickets. You can use the following address to check ticket prices or to buy them in advance.. If you are coming from southern regions such as Malmö and Copenhagen, you can buy tickets from this page.
Gothenburg Travel Guide: When to Go to Gothenburg?
Gothenburg’s winters get rainy (let me have a sarcastic “come on honey?”). People’s faces are often sullen due to the endless rain and gray skies.. When it snows, the weather is softer and the city is brighter, so it is more enjoyable to visit the city.. Spring months are cool, the sun shines and disappears, so it is the most unstable season.. Gothenburg, which can actually see 30 degrees in summer, becomes a completely different city in hot weather.. Locals become more friendly, one festival ends and another begins, parks and cafes are full of people, island ferries get crowded.
*Some Activities You May Want to Match Your Gothenburg Trip to
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In which months the city’s top 10 events take place, let’s take a brief look. As you can see, the most active time in Gothenburg is June.. With the weather getting better, the ideal time to visit Gothenburg.
-Gothenburg Film Festival: If you are in Gothenburg at the end of January, the first week of February, Scandinavia’s largest international don’t miss the film festival. For example, the dates of 2016 are set as 29 January – 8 February.
-International Science Festival: For the sake of science, Gothenburg hosts Europe’s most prestigious science festival every year! Around 70,000 people attend the festival, which takes place in April (13-17 April in 2016).
-Valborg: The 30th of every April, Swedes crowd the parks and celebrate Valborg. Especially university students get excited in Valborg, so you see young people in various parts of the city who are drooling over alcohol. Celebrate at the Slottskogen park in Gothenburg, don’t say it’s past us now, and sip your drink around the huge campfire in the evening.
-The Picnic Festival: From Beans Those who want to be Swedish can attend this collective picnic, which is celebrated on the 6th of June, Sweden’s national day and where many musical groups take the stage.
-Summerburst: Scandinavia’s first contemporary music festival, The most exciting city event of the last 5 years for dance music fans. It is usually determined on the last two days of June.
-Midsummer Celebrations: This Hıdırellez-style event, which is called Midsommar in Swedish and is celebrated in summer, is celebrated collectively in the parks of the city.. You can watch the absurd behavior of the Swedes dancing frogs around a pole and get closer to the local culture with folkloric music and dance groups taking the stage.. From 19-25 June, Midsommar events take place in many parts of the city.
-Göteborg Music Festival: Swedes love marching bands, so it’s no wonder they’re hosting Scandinavia’s biggest marching band festival.. It takes place on 26-30 June with the participation of around 50,000 musicians.
-Gothenburg Book Fair: Whether it is because of the reopening of schools, the city’s book month is September.. This book fair is Scandinavia’s largest cultural event, attracting around 100,000 attendees each year.. The dates for 2016 are set as 22-25 September.. It is one of the events we support that energizes and crowds the city.
-Gothenburg Culture Festival: Here is a six-day festival that makes the city excited and allows you to see crowds in the streets even at late hours! It is the second week of August and welcomes 1.3 million visitors every year.. You can watch solid music groups for free, participate in cultural and artistic activities, raise your blood pressure at the stands where all the world’s dishes are sold.. You can try elk kebab in northern pita bread, I haven’t tried it because I’m vegan, but I consume it sociologically under the title of “multiculturalism and fusion dishes”.
-Way Out West: Way Out West, which we can call Scandinavia’s most popular music festival after Roskilde, is a large organization spread over Slottskogen Park, which brings the best representatives of many currents from indie to rock, hip-hop to electronic music.. It is held in the second week of August and during this time it hosts music lovers from all over Europe and Sweden.. The festival also impresses with its environmental awareness.. They say that everything sold in the area has been vegetarian until now, and they will move it to veganism in 2016.
They Will Get Into A Wallet And Suitcase On Their Gothenburg Trip
The age of cash in Sweden is long gone! Just as credit cards are accepted everywhere, there are not few places where cash payment is not accepted.. So even if you don’t go with Swedish krona, you can still manage with your card.. If you want to have cash on hand, it is better to deal with it from Turkey because the exchange rates are more favorable.. While you’re there, you can get Swedish kronor from exchange offices at the airport or from Forexs all over the city.. If there is no Forex nearby, be sure to check the current exchange rate online and do business with offices that do not take commission.
Sweden is an expensive country in general, luckily, Gothenburg is a city with cheap alternatives.. Do your calculations considering that you will spend around 400 SEK, ie around 45-50 Euros a day.. Let’s say you choose a nice place for one of your two meals and order a main course, it will cost between 90-130 SEK. When you pass the other meal with a street food such as falafel, kebab, hotdog, you will pay something between 60-80 SEK.. Your coffee, tea or hot chocolate will cost around 30 SEK, when you take a break from fatigue, and if you try a small Swedish dessert with it, you will close the account for 60 SEK.. Those who say they won’t go back without trying Swedish beer can drink a good beer for 60-70 SEK.. Moderate wines are around 50 SEK, depending on the bar of course. Spirits and cocktails 90 SEK and above. Drinking out is the most expensive thing in Sweden anyway, so the less you drink, the more snow you get.. A raincoat is vital as it will be cool and surprise rains will come even in summer.. You don’t need to carry an umbrella because the umbrella to take the wind of Gothenburg has not been produced yet. If you are going in winter, thick socks, scarf, beanie, gloves and sturdy boots are your must-haves.. Even if you go in the summer, do not forget to buy a shawl and cardigan to protect your neck.. In Gothenburg, people take care of their appearance, but there is no exaggeration like catwalk chic in Stockholm.. Unless you’re going to a fancy restaurant or nightclub, you can go anywhere with your casual clothes.
Gothenburg Travel Guide: Where to Stay in Gothenburg?
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Since the launch of Airbnb, the hotels have been thrown to the ground! Making Airbnb in Gothenburg is very easy and common; Houses of all sizes and price ranges are available.. Although it seems to be far from the city center, the Hisingen region, which is actually a train distance, is where the prices are more affordable.. But in my opinion, I would suggest you to rent a house in Majorna, which is the coolest part of the city and at the same time partially central.
You can concentrate on the houses near Andra Långatan, Järntorget, Haga and Stigbergstorget.. Average daily rates on Airbnb are around 50 Euros, if you are more than two people and want a decent place, you have to sacrifice 70 Euros.. But considering that the cheapest nights of hotels in Gothenburg start from 100 Euros for two people, it’s not bad at all.
If you want to stay in the center and be within walking distance of both the train station and the Old Town, Europe You can look at the streets parallel to Östra Hamngatan Street behind Nordstan, the biggest shopping mall of .. Although Couchsurfing, another option, seems to be common in Gothenburg, it is not easy to find a host to stay.
I know that some of us are curious about hotels, I will suggest a few places for those who like to experience hotels on their trips.. I’m a hip person, if you want a small but stylish place to stay, have fast internet, be close to the liveliest places of the city, and have a good breakfast, I recommend Hotel Flora, the prices are also reasonable.. If you say that authentic is good, nostalgia is sweet, Hotel Royal, which has been operating since 1852 and reflects the Swedish school, is just for you, and it’s a five-minute walk from the city center! For Carpe diemists, stars like Bruce Springsteen and Tina Turner stay, 19. I recommend Elite Plaza Hotel, which is in the heart of the city, which has been brought to this day by preserving its century-old architecture.. If you’re after classic luxury, it’s for you.. The Upper House, opposite the Liseberg amusement park, is the ideal place for minimal design lovers, spa and gastronomy enthusiasts.. There is a place like a hostel with its prices and a hotel with its comfort, STF Göteborg City Hotel. Lounge is quite nice, rooms are modern and reasonably priced. Finally, I will talk about a nautical-themed hotel that I think reflects the spirit of Gothenburg.. Poseidon Hotel is a modest hotel where you can stay at very good prices, located both in the center of the city and in a decent part of the city.. It also won the 2015 customer satisfaction award on Trip Advisor.
Gothenburg Travel Guide: A Matter of Transportation in Gothenburg
The relentless walking and getting lost wherever she goes. If you are someone who sees a part of the sightseeing experience, Gothenburg is for you! Grab a map from the Tourist Office, either inside Nordstan Shopping Center or at Kungsportsplatsen Square and start navigating the roads.. You can’t get lost even if you wanted to because there are road signs all over the city.. If you have to ask for directions, don’t expect Laz grocer sympathy from anyone. If they know the way, they kindly describe it, some look on their phone and direct, but if they really don’t know, they say “I don’t know” and beat them with clarity.. By the way, remember that you are in the best English speaking country in the world and ask “Do you speak English?” Start the conversation without making the introduction.
Transportation in the city is quite easy.. For distances you cannot walk, you can use a bus or tram.. All transport networks in Gothenburg are operated by an agency called Västtrafik, so with a Västtrafik card or tickets you can use all forms of public transport, including ferries to the islands.
In Sweden you’re stuck with cash, so you can buy single-use tickets from machines on buses and trams with your credit card.. A ticket costs 26 SEK and provides free pass on all transfers for an hour.. So make sure you have your ticket with you.. If you plan to stay in the city for more than 3 days, I suggest you stop by the Västtrafik office located at Central Station, that is, Nils Ericson Terminal.. A 24-hour unlimited ticket costs 85 SEK and a 72-hour ticket costs 170 SEK.
Now I have a dangerous proposition and I know that’s exactly what you’re wondering about.. There is no control on buses and trams, most Gothenburgs do not have a monthly card read by the machine.. So get on the bus through the front door and say “Hej!” to the bus driver. You enter waving your arms by saying (Hey so hello). “You’re disgusting!” she doesn’t look away. However, at some stops, controllers in civilian clothes can get on, it is said that they usually have white berets.. I haven’t come across them for a year, but when they do come across, they’re pretty tight.. Even if you are caught, they charge your home address, your lesson number 10 in Bağcılar is over.. But I would say don’t let this happen to yourself, at least buy a ticket once in a while.
Chasing Things That Wouldn’t Happen in Turkey: Running in Europe: Cycling in the City
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An alternative to public transport is cycling.. This is a city where you can cycle comfortably thanks to its bike paths and respectful drivers.. In order to encourage cycling, renting a bike is also quite simple.. He has a company called Styr & Ställ located in 50 points of the city and his prices are very affordable. One again by the Nils Ericsson terminal. You can see all rental points in the “Stationer” section on this link:
The first half hour is free, so you are borrowing rather than renting.. You pay 10 SEK for the second half hour and 20 SEK for the third half hour. You pay SEK 40 for every next half hour. “What kind of system is this?” I can hear you say. It’s as if they say to those who have a very urgent job, let the bike do its job, but if they pass the time, we will pass it on to layers.. But I’m going to suggest you, they have a smarter deal.. Rent a bike with a three-day card and pay only 25 SEK. They will take a deposit of 140 SEK from your card but the money will appear in your account after three days. You can trust businesses in Sweden on this, I seem to vouch for them, but I’m not exactly because the guarantor responsibility is huge, I hope none of us are tested by being a guarantor.. What we were saying, yes, I say rent your bike for 25 SEK and travel for three days.
*We are advancing with the taste of the last point in the campaign, then let me talk about the advantages of the Gothenburg City Card. This card is a tourist friendly card that provides free passes to many museums in the city, free public transport and car parking spaces, and even connects the bikes I mentioned above to the waist.. The price of the card is 365 SEK (24 hours), 515 SEK (48 hours), 665 SEK (72 hours) during the summer period called high season.. In the winter season, these prices decrease by 30 SEK.. If you are going to Gothenburg for the first time and for a short time, if you say “I live the soul of the city in cafes and on the streets”, it’s a shame for the money you will pay for this card.. But if you’re planning to exploit the city, I have a great idea for you! Get a day card from Landvetter Airport or the tourist offices I wrote about and live the full 24 hours starting from the moment you activate the card.. Rent a bike or take public transport. If you do it this way, you will make a lot of profit and you will be able to visit many museums with high prices.. In the second part of the article, which is more like a travel guide, I will talk about the places where this card is used.
