Our second day in Gothenburg was a lot more laid back and also rainier than the previous one. We slept in for a while and continued chatting with our host for a while because he had to go to work around two so we figured we’d hang out with him as much as we could. We left around 12:30 so he’d have some down time to get ready and do whatever he does before work. We’d heard that Gothenburg has some really nice botanical gardens so we caught the tram to the train station so we could find some food before heading south. We arrived to the stop, crossed the highway and walked down a street through what looked like a neighborhood and suddenly, a sign for the gardens appeared before us. We ended up walking through the entrance to the university that connects to the gardens. We walked through them for the better part of an hour and they have some really nice flowers and the layout is done to make it a great experience. The gardens have won a couple of awards in recent years, including a third place finish in the Most Beautiful Gardens in Europe competition.
We caught the tram back to the central station and found a bus our host told us would take us across the bridge to where they had this rebuilt boat that would be fun to see. We headed over to an area of town called Eriksberg right on the harbor and walked around for a bit. Sure enough, there is an old, restored looking boat just sitting along one of the docks like it’s the 1700’s. The boat looked abandoned and we were a little saddened that we couldn't walk out to it and explore it a bit. Oh well. After a quick walk around the harbor area, we caught the bus back across the bridge and got off at the huge Ferris wheel. It is similar to the one in London and provides a bird’s eye view of the city. It sits right next to the Opera House on the edge of the water. We watched a car for a few minutes try to run over an apple but it ended in disappointment and the apple simply rolling into a gutter. We walked around the main areas a little longer but the cold and impending rain inspired us to head on back to our hosts’ house and have some warm spaghetti we had made the night before and catch up on some little things we needed to do and had been putting off.
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