So my journey started today, one the 14th of February, 2020, at home, at roughly 6am, when I got up after way to little sleep. I took a shower, did some last checks on my luggage and then I was on the road and on my way. The journey to the airport went quite smoothly, even the Deutsche Bahn was on time today, so that was already a decent start. My baggage was exactly 500g under the maximum, which also made me very happy since I knew that it would be very very close wheter I would be above or below the allowed 23kg. After that things went on further smoothly, security check wasn’t an issue and neither was getting to the gate or on the plane.

The flight took off on time and we also landed pretty much on time. But after that it was on. I had never been to Sweden before and I had no idea how things would go in terms of transportation methods, payment methods or anything else that you need in order to get to your accomodation for the airport. And obviously, that is also where things stopped going smoothly. After I got my luggage I went to exchange some Euros for Swedish Kronas (Or Crowns or whatever the correct English term is). However, when it came to buying a ticket for the Busshuttle from the airport to the Central Station, that cash didn’t do me any good, since the machine only accepted Bank Cards. Oh well. So I got my ticket and found my bus, all of this after only asking one person so far. Not too bad. The bus drive took us on the highway to Göteborg, which is roughly 20 kilometers away from the aiport. Luckily, I already roughly knew where to go and which busses to take, so I spend some of the time driving checking my connections, where I would need to hop off and so on. I turned out that my destination was the final busstop anyway so I got off there and was greeted by something that looked like a combination of a train station and a Mall. As it turns out, that’s pretty much exactly what it is. So now I’m at the central bus/trainstation and all I need to do is find a bus from line 60 to Redsbergplatsen. Easy right?

Yeah

That’s where things really stopped going smoothly. I got out of the terminal and landed on a huge square which had plenty of bus and tram-stops. I was looking for the stop with the letter L, but I could only find A-D. Oh well, a quick look around revealed that there were also stops J and K around 50 meters away, on the other side of the street. J and K? Sounds like L should be right around the corner, right? Uhm, nop. Oh well back to the square then. Hmm, there is a line 60 here, but it has another destination could that be it? No, wrong direction. Oh well. Let’s go to the information office then and ask. As I turns out, stop L is nowhere near J or K, but behind A-D. (E is also somewhere in that area, but I have no idea what happened to F-I)However it is not just the normal kind of behind them, but a behind-and-over-the-river-kind-of-behind. Oh well no big deal, there is a bridge right over there. Looks like the last bus just left, no big deal, they arrive like every 6 minutes or so. And you can buy tickets on the bus. Hurray.

Except, you can’t because you can only buy them on trams. Why they wrote on the busstop that you can buy bustickets on the bus, I have no idea but yeah, back to the information desk it was for me. And then, after going back to stop L, I was finally able to get on the bus after searching and walking around for the better part of 45 minutes. The busride to my aparment went smoothly and a few minutes later I was in my room. Finally. No more exams in the near future, no more hustling around to pack luggage or anything, just the weekend to arrive in Sweden. How peaceful.

Except, now I was hungry. Oh well, no big deal, there is a grocery store like right on the other side of the street. So I went there and started looking around. And that’s where I found out that things are kinda more expensive than at home. And by kinda I mean roughly double the price. (For better understanding I have converted the prices to Euros). 2 Euros for a litre of soy milk and 2.20 for 500g of Yoghurt. Yeah. Oh well, a man’s gotta eat, so I bought some stuff quickly and got to know a machine at the counter which automatically counts coins and gives you your return in coins, without the need for the cashier to do anything, which is pretty neat in my opinion.

And that is it for now. Let’s see where my journey will lead me the next few days.