Going to spend two weeks in Sweden soon and so I’m starting to buy less food and not opening stuff that we can do without. Like... ground coffee! It’s going to be green tea every day until we’re in Sweden. I feel like this is a bad way to start our relationship, Sweden. I’m resenting this already. Bancha Kumamoto for breakfast it is.

@kensanata Cant you just seal up the bag and put it in the freezer while you're here?

What are you going to do in Sweden?

@ohyran Hm, I keep the coffee in the fridge which is at about 4°C, and the bag is closed with a clip (?). Doesn't the freezer change the coffee taste, too? Might be a good alternative, though. Better for Sweden, too, haha.
We're doing a 15 day road trip in the south of Sweden.

@kensanata Yeah but... not THAT much (days without coffee = not ok, green tea is not a substitute :) )

Also sounds nice (the road trip) plus the weather is awesome right now and with a little luck that will keep up for a while.

If you want suggestions - I got many (but hate when people blurt out "oh then you HAVE to go X Y Z!" uninvited so I'm holding off on them)

@ohyran I am interested in suggestions! We have all the nights booked already, so there's little flexibility with regards to the route, but if there's anything along the way you would suggest, I'd love to hear it. We're spending two nights each in Uppsala, Lidköping, Göteborg, Malmö, Kalmar, Linköping and some extra nights in Stockholm.

@kensanata well I grew up in Stockholm but moved to Gothenburg 18 years ago.
In Stockholm ignore the area around the central station. Go to Fjällgatan and Sista Styverns Trappor for the best view of Stockholm you have ever seen in your life. Also dark AF "sista styverns trappor" was the stairs leading to the execution hill and the noose and "sista styvern" = "last stiff one" = the last shot of vodka, and "stiff necks"

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/59.31731/18.08624

@kensanata old town is awesome, Västerlånggatan in Old Town is a massive tourist trap. Allow yourself to get lost instead.
In Old Town you have the smallest saddest rune stone (it was harvested in the 1500eds by builders who just wanted a flat stone, then found again in the 19th century and is still stuck to a wall at knee level) - it talks about a couple who lost their first child.
(making runestones was both magical and basically illegal at that time so it was quite an act of grief)

@kensanata if the weather allows, take a stroll around Djurgården.
Check out the translated works of one of our national skalds - Carl Michael Bellman - who was a musician in the 1700eds who song about not only nobility and finery, but popular subjects and human suffering. At his time Stockholm was a dangerous fucking city and rather horrible and his songs have lived on since and been covered over and over (here by another national skald)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gbCkidlqEU

@kensanata Now Gothenburg....

So Gothenburg and Stockholm are very different. Stockholm is beautiful but rather harsh and snobby. Gothenburg is... well it's not pretty :) but it's nice. Amazingly nice. Both cities are tricky to visit since you have to find the nice places in counter with the tourist info which actively tries to guide people to complete rubbish places (See "Västerlånggatan" above).

@kensanata In Gothenburg. If someone says "Visit Feskekyrka" or similar spelling as a first suggestion - they don't know what they are talking about at all. It is the tourist trap of all tourist traps. Zero history, zero value.

Gothenburg have the best archipelago ever. You take a tram and then a boat. It costs ONE tram ticket - no hidden costs. People live out there.

If you check the time table you can find out if its a cafe boat, meaning 40 min on boat drinking (slightly overpriced) coffee