April 3
The morning started out dreary and wet but turned into a cold, but sunny day. We started off together at the City Museum but Lynn left after about 90 minutes to get to her hair appointment. It was a very interesting museum giving the history of the Gothenburg area from prehistoric times. This city as it is known now was settled in 1621 but had been populated as early as 5000 years ago. We saw a skeleton of a 23 year old man from 4500 years ago. Unlike Otzi in Bolzano Italy, this guy was just bones but it was still pretty cool.
There was a pretty large display from the Viking age which was from about 700-1050AD. The things we saw were in remarkable condition. The entire museum was very well done.
We met for lunch after Lynn’s appointment and had a traditional Swedish meal, our first since getting to Sweden 5 days ago. We’d been making sandwiches and eating at home, so it was nice to taste the local cuisine.
After walking the city center and a pretty park, we headed for home. Tonight is laundry night (again) but at least we have a washer and dryer at the house. Lynn found a 20 minute wash cycle but the dryer will take 2 hours. Not sure why it takes so long to do laundry in Europe but she’s looking forward to getting her washer/dryer at home up and running.
Tomorrow we head to Oslo for about 9 days in Norway. Our train doesn’t arrive until about 5pm so you probably won’t hear from us until Saturday. Till then…. love from us.
Love your travels. Alls well here. Just waiting on our appraisal report to come in now. We should be able to move in late next week, around May 12. House came fully furnished, right down to the towels and silverware. Don’t know what we’re going to do with all the extras.