Do you have a few days left of your vacation? Take a trip to ...Tjörn. Only 90 minutes from the city and just beeeeeautiful it is. Eat the best shrimp sandwich, get to know the marvellous Elsa Beskow and wander around the unlikely Pilane open air museum. Monthly presents…Top Five Tjörn!
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Just a stone's throw away from Göteborg lies Mölndal, and in Mölndal there's a great cultural park called Gunnebo. The park consists of a main wooden building (the mansion), built by John Hall in 1778.
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Lager 157 is a huge clothing outlet located in Gällstad, a bit more than an hour's drive from Göteborg. It is the perfect spot to shop until you drop. Here you will find brand-name clothes for half-price and sometimes even less.
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It's that time of year again! Put on your rubber boots, get the mushroom basket out of storage and head for the woods! Mushroom picking is indeed very popular in Sweden. Picking mushrooms is allowed anywhere in the countryside thanks to the right of public access.
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Borås Borås so good they named it twice... or rather just Borås they named it after the Ås or ridge of small hills which more or less surrounds the City and gives it it's very own weather system.
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Hidden deep in the woods of Slottsskogen park lies a small observation station. Every Monday and Wednesday the friendly people at the station gives guided tours to the stars and the planets around us.
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If you like going south naively hoping the tiny decrease in latitude will improve the weather and your tan, go to Kungsbacka. Twenty-five minutes by local train from Göteborg’s central station.The little city hosts a market the first Thursday of every month (unless it’s a red day), all year. Here you can find everything from tiny baby socks and clay Santas to unusual spices and smoked...
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A British journalist once said, after a visit to the archipelago of western Sweden, she could not understand why everybody kept talking about the beauty. To her it was but a grey and barren skeleton, thrown neglectfully into the sea. In my opinion, she could not be more wrong. I am probably biased as I have spent every summer holiday since I was eight on an island of Strömstad’s archipelago, in northern Bohuslän. During the winters in Göteborg, I still dream about those magical summers.
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