Day trip to Gothenburg

Today, we (the volunteers) took a day off and drove with the ferry from Frederikshavn to Gothenburg. It takes about 3 1/2 hours with the ferry per drive and we had 3 1/2 hours in the city, but it was totally worth it! On the ferry, we observed a few birds, but it was quite rainy. Mostly, we saw Fulmars (Mallemuk), Great Skuas (Storkjove) and Gannets (Sule). In Gothenburg, we visited the Haga-district and ate very delicious cake! At first, we went to a café which is famous for their big cinnamon buns and we weren't disappointed - the buns had the same size as my hand! Warmed up and with a full cinnamon-bun-stomach, we searched for the swedish supermarket ICA. I`m kind of obsessed with the swedish food, especially with the sweets, so I needed to buy a lot of stuff. When I´m in Sweden, it`s like a tradition, that I buy "soft bröd" and "punschrollar", but the most important part of my tradition is to eat Kladdkaka. That`s definitely my favorite cake! And even though we were`t that hungry anymore, there was still place for a nice gooey Kladdkaka (there always is).

However, we thought we couldn't eat anything more during this day, but the hunger came back quite quickly on the fairy. Fortunately, Simon was waiting for us at the observatory with pizza. I think especially James couldn`t wait for that - I`ve never seen someone walking so fast! ;-P And because the lovely Rita cleaned our flat this day, we had a very nice coming back (and she brought us Gnocchi - thank you for that!!) The day ended with a shuffle ball tournament in which Molly won against Simon!

All in all it was a very nice day and I`m sad that Daniel and I have to leave tomorrow - it was such a nice time at the observatory!

People: Molly Brown, Sarah Bedford, James Butcher, Daniel Bloche, Simon S. Christiansen, Rita and Lisa Vergin