20. Goteborg
Orange
juice out of an iPad!
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| Choices Also Include Apple, Pink Grapefruit Juices and Water |
You
put your glass under a spigot someplace else, then click on the picture of OJ
on an iPad nearby and voila orange juice flows out of the spigot. How do they
do that?
No
matter, we had a wonderful breakfast.
We
also reclaimed our car from the garage under the hotel but we had to go back
inside to drop off this dongle. Would a drop off box not be better? The drop
off box would be electronically linked to front desk at the reception and the
time, or your parking fee would be added to your invoice. But no, that is too
much thinking, you have to get your car, then you have to return the dongle and
only then can you get your invoice and pay your bill.
Ah,
the world does not think the way I do, I would make a good beta tester, I find
all kinds of short comings everywhere. Some call me a cynic, well, how about a
thinker? Suits me better, I think! (Pun
intended).
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| Swedish Country-Side |
Being
that it was Sunday, the drive out of Stockholm was easy, we just followed the
GPS and the traffic was light this early in the day.
The
drive back to Goteborg was boring.
We
drove exclusively on the Swedish highway system. We had made ourselves lunch at
breakfast time and just bought a cappuccino someplace and decided to ‘picnic’
along the side of the road, since we were going to pass a huge lake, according
to the map our road runs smack alongside this lake. There must be a rest stop
along the lake, with a view, right?
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| Lake is in the Background |
We
took an exit someplace soon after this lake and found a bump out in the side of
the road to have our ‘lunch’. While we sat there a large contingent of bicycles
rode past us. All wore bicycle jerseys and there were many ‘club’ colors in
this procession.
We noticed before we took our position on the ‘parking lot’ two motorcycle ambulance men giving first aid to a man who took a spill on the road. The motorcycles were set up and decaled like an ambulance. They even had red/blue lights that blinked, like a police car. My thoughts were? Do they expect injured people to sit on the back of the bikes to be ridden to a facility? The guy who was treated by those Paramedics was ok, but had a bandaged arm when we later saw him.
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| Paramedics |
We noticed before we took our position on the ‘parking lot’ two motorcycle ambulance men giving first aid to a man who took a spill on the road. The motorcycles were set up and decaled like an ambulance. They even had red/blue lights that blinked, like a police car. My thoughts were? Do they expect injured people to sit on the back of the bikes to be ridden to a facility? The guy who was treated by those Paramedics was ok, but had a bandaged arm when we later saw him.
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| Yellow Team |
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| Blue (Mostly) Team |
We found a room at the Arena Hotel, in Goteborg that night. The pictures looked ok when I booked on line, but the hotel turned out to be a dud. We received a room so small; we had to almost enter into it walking in backwards. No A/C, a window that opened towards the street, noise all night long and a breakfast that was nothing to write home about. The parking was ok, the neighborhood a bit seedy.
When we asked the receptionist for a Swedish
restaurant in the neighborhood, she told us there is no such thing. She pointed
us to a Spanish Tapas bar that was disappointing.
Tomorrow
we are taking the ferry back to Denmark, I can hardly wait. I gave Sweden a
week of my time to see how this country compares itself to others I have visited…
my verdict …Sweden is not for me.
You
can have it… all of it!
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