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@hgb An emphatic result.
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@hgb An emphatic result.
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On this day in 1905 Norwegians voted to end their union with Sweden.
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On this day in 1905 Norwegians voted to end their union with Sweden.
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#electrek:
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Tesla defeats Sweden’s IF Metall union after 1,021-day strike
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"The union didn’t lose a vote or run out of money. Tesla simply paid its way out.""“Tesla has gigantic economic resources and has used them, among other things, to buy out the strikers. That is unique,”"
https://electrek.co/2026/08/13/tesla-defeats-sweden-if-metall-union-strike/
13.8.2026
#Gewerkschaft #IFMetall #money #Schweden #Streik #strike #Sweden #Tesla #Union
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#electrek:
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Tesla defeats Sweden’s IF Metall union after 1,021-day strike
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"The union didn’t lose a vote or run out of money. Tesla simply paid its way out.""“Tesla has gigantic economic resources and has used them, among other things, to buy out the strikers. That is unique,”"
https://electrek.co/2026/08/13/tesla-defeats-sweden-if-metall-union-strike/
13.8.2026
#Gewerkschaft #IFMetall #money #Schweden #Streik #strike #Sweden #Tesla #Union
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On 23 July 2026, the reusable stage demonstrator Themis conducted a flight chronology rehearsal at Esrange Space Center in #Sweden. The #ArianeGroup and SSC Space teams have reached a major milestone in preparing for Europe’s reusable space rocket future. #EU #FRANCE
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Söderåsen: Sweden's vast restored broadleaf forest offering wild swimming and hiking in Europe's deep south
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/aug/13/soderasen-national-park-sweden-forest-far-south
Söderåsen national park is one of Europe’s largest protected broadleaf woods, offering wild swimming, spectacular hiking trails and an inspiring story of regeneration From the bus window, the ridge…
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Söderåsen national park is one of Europe’s largest protected broadleaf woods, offering wild swimming, spectacular hiking trails and an inspiring story of regeneration From the bus window, the ridge… #travel #sweden #nature
Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass
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Récit plus détaillé prochainement, mais déjà un coup de chapeau à @CoMaps pour nous avoir permis d’affiner nos itinéraires et de les modifier hors connexion dans ces contrées reculées, ce dont d’autres (comme Komoot) sont bien incapables. #CoMaps #sweden #kungsleden
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Récit plus détaillé prochainement, mais déjà un coup de chapeau à @CoMaps pour nous avoir permis d’affiner nos itinéraires et de les modifier hors connexion dans ces contrées reculées, ce dont d’autres (comme Komoot) sont bien incapables. #CoMaps #sweden #kungsleden
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#usa #eu #sweden #israel #palestine : #military / #nato / #integration / #gaza #nuclearweapons / #civilresistance
„We should acknowledge that NATO has done nothing to stop the U.S. provisioned Israeli #genocide or to restrain Israel.
On the contrary, NATO seeks fuller integration of Israel’s “security” into NATO strategies. (…)
We should note that Israel possesses at least 91 thermonuclear weapons which it refuses to declare.“
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#usa #eu #sweden #israel #palestine : #military / #nato / #integration / #gaza #nuclearweapons / #civilresistance
„We should acknowledge that NATO has done nothing to stop the U.S. provisioned Israeli #genocide or to restrain Israel.
On the contrary, NATO seeks fuller integration of Israel’s “security” into NATO strategies. (…)
We should note that Israel possesses at least 91 thermonuclear weapons which it refuses to declare.“
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Gothenburg
Gothenburg, or Göteborg in the local tongue, is Sweden’s second largest city. It is on the west coast of the country, pretty much half-way between two other Nordic cities I’ve visited – Copenhagen in Denmark, and Oslo in Norway. In many ways, if feels like somewhere between the two as well. We went on holiday there for 8 days.
According to the guide on the boat tour, the city is built on mud and they needed the help of the Dutch because they’re good at building on mud. There’s also a lot of building and roadworks going on at the moment, possibly due to mudbuilding, but also likely due to the new underground railway they’re developing.
The Archipelago
One of the main things I wanted to see in Gothenburg were the islands. When we went to Oslo the islands there were a highlight, so hoped the same would be true in Sweden. Reader – they were amazing. Gothenburg actually has two archipelagos – one west of the city (seemingly referred to as the “north archipelago”), and one southwest (the “south archipelago”). The latter is closer, easier to get to, and seemed a bit more remote, so we got a ferry from Saltholmen to Brännö, one of the larger southern islands.
The ferry docks at the pier in the north-east of the island, and we walked round some of the built-up area nearby, stopping at a tiny little supermarket for ice cream and water.
There are very few cars on Brännö, with most vehicles being bicycles, or modified motorbikes with a sort of fixed pallet on the front. These presumably served to carry stuff around the island, although most appeared to be used to transport Swedish maidens in floral dresses.
We walked a km or two north-west through the woods to Galterösund, the little bridge that crosses to the island of Galterö, a nature reserve with some amazing views of the rest of the islands and the sea. Perhaps unwisely, we then hiked the rocky/climby/stumbly trail from the bridge down to the other island ferry port near Husvik in the south. It was only about 2km, but it took over an hour. Finally, a cafe provided a beer and some food, before we picked up the ferry over to the next island – Styrsö.
We stuck to the northern half of the island, exploring the village between the northern ferry port at Tången and the north-eastern port. Styrsö is a bit less remote, and does have a few cars, but most people seemed to get around in golf carts. You can even hire one for the day. Motorbikes are quite popular too, and we were passed by the local yoof who appeared to be living in the world of Grease 2.
About half way between the two ports there’s a quaint little museum with some traditional buildings and local “artifacts”, which was interesting.
We didn’t get a chance to visit the other islands, but frankly, that was enough hiking for one day.
The trams
Public transport in Gothenburg is amazing. There are buses and trams and trains and ferries everywhere. They’re clean, reliable, and incredibly cheap. A day pass, which covers the whole of “Zone A” (basically, all of Gothenburg and the islands) is 125 SEK (less than £10), and each adult can bring along up to three people under 20 for free. They also had a deal this summer – perhaps all the time, it wasn’t clear – where you could get a three day pass for 250 SEK, so three days unlimited travel on all public transport for less than £20.
Most of our travel was via tram, as it seems they deal with the main travel routes around the city, linking up all the main areas and tourist spots. I know a lot of cities, especially in Europe, have trams – Oslo and Amsterdam also have excellent tram services – but do they have a fleet of trams named after famous people? No, no they do not.
Most of the trams in Gothenburg have a name on the front relating to, it seems, famous or notable Swedes. I had heard of precisely one of them – Jenny Lind – because a hospital in Norwich has named their children’s ward after her. That didn’t stop me wanting to take photos of them all, though.
Disappointingly, the Tram Museum was closed for the summer, but luckily the volunteers who run it were still operating their heritage lines – old trams, some over 100 years old, that run between Central Station and Liseberg. We managed to get a ride on one of them!
Liseberg
There’s a theme park in the middle of the city. In the UK, theme parks are in fields in the middle of nowhere or in the grounds of country estates, but Liseberg is wedged between two main roads in Gothenberg itself. If I’d not been to Tivoli in Copenhagen this would seem even more weird.
Renowned now as a mecca for rollercoaster enthusiasts, Liseberg has been around for over a hundred years. Originally created as a temporary attraction for the 1923 Gothenberg Exhibition celebrating 300 years of the city, somehow it stuck around. As well as rides, there are two concert venues, an arcade, restaurants, “spin the wheel” games, and various shops and other sights. It’s also pretty cheap, with a ticket including a pass for unlimited rides coming to 365 SEK (about £28). In the UK, Legoland and Alton Towers cost about £39.
The day we went it was pretty busy, and we overheard people complaining than the wait times on some rides was as long as 20-30 minutes. Minutes! Two hours isn’t unusual for rides in the UK. As someone who doesn’t like coasters that wasn’t a problem anyway – most other rides were less than 10. As the site is pretty small, the coasters are mostly placed on top of and, seemingly, inside of other coasters, where the tracks loop and wrap around each other, making it a somewhat dizzying experience just watching them.
There’s an area for small kids called Kaninlandet (Rabbit Land), where green rabbits mine for carrots and the theme is projected onto the rides. Yes, we went on the baby ride in the mines and yes it was great.
Engelska?
For a few months in advance of the trip I spent some time on Duolingo learning a bit of svenska (Swedish). It’s not that hard to understand, when written, especially as I know a little Dutch, some German, and have picked up a smattering of Danish and Norwegian (which it is most like) on trips there. Grammatically, it’s simpler than Norwegian. Or perhaps the word order is just closer to English. When spoken, however, I was totally lost. Thankfully, literally everyone spoke English.
Most interactions went like this:
Shopkeeper: Hej!
Me: Hej!
Shopkeeper: How can I help you?I’m not sure why my “hej” gave me away. Sometimes, it didn’t:
Shopkeeper: Hej!
Me: Hej!
Shopkeeper: something I have no idea
Me: Pratar du engelska?
Shopkeeper: something else I don’t understand
Me: Er, engelska?
Shopkeeper: Yes, of course.Often, the “Yes, of course” would be replaced with the never-not-hilarious-to-the-speaker “No, I don’t. What would you like?”. Sometimes, it’d be a “Yes” but with the facial expression and tone to suggest a non-spoken “Obviously I do what are you, stupid?” like I’d just asked the same question in Norwich. I did “tack”, “tusen tack” and “tack så mycket” as much as I could though, so I did try at least. I did also manage to break out a “jag bor i england” once.
Talking of shops, I was surprised to discover that money… isn’t a thing in Gothenburg. When you fly in, Landvetter airport has huge adverts for Forex exclaiming that Cash is Still King, and you will need cash and get cash now. The reality was very different. The vast majority of shops, stalls, museums, and anywhere else you have to pay for anything simply didn’t even accept cash, and most of those that did preferred you didn’t. We’d taken over a load of Monopoly-looking notes ready to spend and brought almost all of them home again as it wasn’t possible to spend them. It seems online “pay by phone number” service Swish is the go-to payment system there, although contactless with a card is also accepted almost everywhere.
Öl
I consider myself, for want of a better phrase, a beer tourist. Not a “travelling alcoholic”, a beer tourist. As such, I like to try beers that are local to wherever I go. Sweden has an unusual relationship with alcohol. There is a government organised “beer monopoly” which restricts what can be sold, where, and for how much. Mainly, this means government run off-licences and distribution of alcohol (systembolaget). Up until April 2026 beer could only be sold in bars and pubs if the establishment also served food, although for historical reasons one single pub in Gothenburg was exempt from this requirement. If a brewery wants to brew a new beer, the government has to specifically allow it. Basically, all alcoholic products over 3.5% have to be purchased by retailers via systembolaget.
There’s also a legal age at which you can buy alcohol – 20 – but you can drink it from 18. You can’t drink alcohol in public either. Bars that have outside seating areas have signs telling you not to drink alcohol past a certain point. At Liseberg and Vassen, we found security guards stopping people from doing so.
As a result of all this, there isn’t the same sort of drinking culture that I’ve seen elsewhere. That said, Gothenburg does have a microbrewery “scene”, with a number of local breweries, like Spike, Beerbliotek, and Poppels. We went to Spike’s brewery and tap room, and had a tour. Our guide was great, we had a tasting session with five of their beers, and as well as talking us through the brewing process he told us a lot about the monopoly, how it works for a brewery. As an aside, the barbecue place next door (Mugwart’s) was also excellent for some meal-onna-tray food.
We also stumbled across a couple of good pubs. Kungstorgets Brygghus had a load of beers on tap, mostly from local breweries. I was slightly disturbed by the number of stickers in the toilets promoting “ultras” – at first I thought this was a fascist movement but it seems to be a hardcore group of football fans (who like to cause trouble and try to set off flares and stuff), although some research suggests there is a bit of an overlap. For what it’s worth, local team IFK Göteborg played two major home games not far from our hotel during our visit and there was barely any noise and no UK football style thuggishness or destruction.
The best pub by far was Ölrepubliken. The staff were amazing, they had literally hundreds of beers available, and did table service and a tab. Tried a few local beers there, but they actually had beers from all over – including from Woodfordes and St. Peters, both just down the road from me at home.
Food
Obviously, meatballs. We all know from Ikea that the Swedes make great meatballs. And they were great. Fish is big in Gothenberg too, and one of the restaurants we went to had a sharing starter plate of “herring four ways”. Actually, it was five ways. Cooked in a tin with tomatoes, one pickled with onions, one with mustard, one that seemed sweet, and another I couldn’t tell you what it was. We had anchovies as a side dish and it was so salty I think my innards dried to a crisp.
We went to Stora Saluhallen, a food market, on one day. It was a mix of both fresh food – mostly meats, fish and cheeses – and cafes. If we were staying somewhere with a kitchen I would have bought everything. One stall, selling cured meats, had a number of more exotic animal products on display. Not unusual for the Nordics but perhaps more so for Brits, there was deer, elk, moose, boar and reindeer available. My eye, however, was caught by “Björn stek”.
Björn means, aside from “that tennis player” or “that guy in Abba”, bear. Yes, cured bear steak. And björnkorv (bear sausage). Now, I’m a meat eater and will try just about anything (as proven by my “I Ate Everything At The Disgusting Food Museum” T-Shirt I got in Malmö a couple of years ago), but bear? I thought whale – eaten in Oslo last year – was a bit edgy but would I eat bear?
Reader – yes. Yes I would.
It tasted mainly of smoke, to be honest. Because it was smoked. It was also dry, and quite bitter. Would I eat it again? No. But now I have.
More tasteful, and far more commonly found across the city, were cinnamon rolls. Many countries have these, but Swedish ones are generally bigger and have sugar crystals dusted on them. In the old part of the city, Haga, there’s a famous shop that sells the biggest cinnamon rolls I’ve ever seen. I mean, look:
Some people, unhinged people presumably, were buying one of these each. We needed three people to take one down.
Sweets are a big deal for the Swedes. In the UK, sweetshops are a dying concept (apart from “American Candy Stores” and pick ‘n’ mix went mostly extinct after the fall of Woolworths, but both are alive and well in Gothenberg. Every road seems to have a Pressbyrån shop, which sells snacks, snus, and loads of sweets. Some of the larger ones have pick ‘n’ mix sections, but there are also many sweet shops which are mostly “fill a bucket” pick ‘n’ mix. Many sweets are easily recognisable as Haribo or normal British favourites like chocolate buttons or “flump” type marshmallows, but Sweden has a penchant for salty sweets and liqourice and (the horror) both together so you’ll find a lot of things that seem like they’ll be sour blackcurrant gummies when actually, they’re salted liquorice. Bleugh. There’s liquorice in things you’d not expect too, so you’ll get the Swedish equivalent of something like Cadbury Fruit and Nut, but instead of fruit and nuts, it’s liquorice. Hard pass.
Interestingly, or perhaps worryingly, these sweetshops also tend to sell snus and vapes.
There’s another food market in the old fishing district (now mostly gentrified) called Feskekörka. Because they sell fish, have fish restaurants, and it’s in the shape of a church – so the name is effectively Fish Church.
I should also mention the street feed venue Vassen, on the north side of the river. We absolutely loved Reffen in Copenhagen and Vassen seemed to be a similar idea – a derelict part of town, out of the way, given over to food from all over the world, entertainment, art, beer and quirkiness. Up to a point Vassen is, but it’s a lot smaller and far more crowded. It was good, but little is as good as Reffen. Reffen didn’t have a London bus decked out as an Irish pub though.
Boats
As it was once a major shipping port, fishing port and shipbuilding city, plus there are a lot of islands and a river with relatively few bridges across it, it isn’t a surprise that boats are a Big Thing in Gothenburg. You’ve the modern ferries, of course (which go up and down, and across, the river, as well as to most of the islands), but there’s also cruise ships and pleasure craft and two maritime museums.
One of these museums, Sjöfartsmuseet Akvariet, is mainly about the naval history of the city. Its shipbuilding, trading and the Swedish East India company. It also has an aquarium in the basement. The other, Maritiman, has a number of real actual vessels you can explore. The most impressive of these on the day we went (they have a rotating fleet) is the destroyer HMS Småland. It’s a 1950s military ship, equipped mainly to destroy submarines and other ships. You can access almost all of the ship, from crew quarters to the munitions store. Really interesting was the HMS Nordkaparen, a 1960s submarine. It’s small, cramped, and difficult to clamber through – and not something you’d want to be stationed on during a war. Or at any time.
DestroyerSubmarineOn the north bank of the river, there’s a reconstruction (using original methods) of the 18th century East India Company trading ship Götheborg. You can explore this too, but as it was used a few years ago to recreate an original trading route to China, it was also decked out with modern computers and tech for navigation and comfort, so it’s a bit weird seeing the two eras clash onboard!
There are two main boat tours of the city’s waterways. One, Oceanbus, is a bus that is also a boat. We didn’t go on that, instead taking the Paddan boat tour, where we took in the canals and river while our guide explained about the history of some of the areas and buildings in the city, including why two century-old buildings are leaning towards each other (mud), why the new construction of the underground railway is proving time consuming (mud), and why various parts of the city have been destroyed or redeveloped over the years (also mud). He also pointed out the large, super fast ferry that sits on the south bank of the river – a jewel in the Stena Line crown – that can get from Gothenburg to Denmark in just two hours, except it is so expensive to run it hasn’t moved in 12 years.
Everything else
There was, of course, so much more. There’s a huge park with a free zoo in it. At least two botanical gardens. Quaint little streets and shops. Street art and statues and interesting architecture everywhere. Parks and gardens, shopping centres, an amazing gelato place called Gelato Station on Friggagaten. Actually that’s another thing – all the places and roads named after Norse myths and legends. A huge statue of Poseidon and a smaller one of Prometheus looking like Pyramid Head from Silent Hill (and both of these are Greek anyway!). And the World of Volvo building! I love a good boring museum and Volvo filled theirs with loads of their old cars and other vehicles, let you have a play in their new models (I asked the on-board AI to order a bucket of chicken and it sadly failed to do so), and experience a wind tunnel.
Unfortunately, we had to come home before we explored more of the city, but we loved everything about it while we were there.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/british-man-dementia-leave-sweden-brexit-migration-case. #Sweden is becoming a post-Brexit #nightmare of the most grotesque #injustice for #British expatriates living there! "A 74-year-old British man who has been living in Sweden for 25 years who needs round-the-clock care for #dementia has been given 10 days to leave the country after he lost a post-Brexit #migration #court case."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/british-man-dementia-leave-sweden-brexit-migration-case. #Sweden is becoming a post-Brexit #nightmare of the most grotesque #injustice for #British expatriates living there! "A 74-year-old British man who has been living in Sweden for 25 years who needs round-the-clock care for #dementia has been given 10 days to leave the country after he lost a post-Brexit #migration #court case."
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Vida closes two sawmills amid raw-material and demand squeeze
Sweden’s largest sawmill group has closed two Småland plants as expensive timber collides with weaker demand for sawn products.
Forestry, manufacturing, restructuring #EU #Sweden
https://www.di.se/nyheter/sagverksjattens-dubbelsmall-aldrig-sett-nagot-liknande/
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British man with dementia told to leave Sweden after losing migration case
By Lisa O’Carroll Senior correspondentExclusive: Horace Mason, 74, who has lived in Sweden for 25 years, faces being deported after court ruling
#Sweden #Brexit #EuropeanUnion #Europe #Foreignpolicy #Politics #Worldnews #UKnews #Migration #Health #Dementia #Mentalhealth #TheGuardian #LisaOCarrollSeniorcorrespondent
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British man with dementia told to leave Sweden after losing migration case
By Lisa O’Carroll Senior correspondentExclusive: Horace Mason, 74, who has lived in Sweden for 25 years, faces being deported after court ruling
#Sweden #Brexit #EuropeanUnion #Europe #Foreignpolicy #Politics #Worldnews #UKnews #Migration #Health #Dementia #Mentalhealth #TheGuardian #LisaOCarrollSeniorcorrespondent
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British man with dementia told to leave Sweden after losing migration case https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/british-man-dementia-leave-sweden-brexit-migration-case #Sweden #Brexit #EuropeanUnion #Europe #ForeignPolicy #Politics #WorldNews #UkNews #Migration #Health #Dementia #MentalHealth
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British man with dementia told to leave Sweden after losing migration case https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/british-man-dementia-leave-sweden-brexit-migration-case #Sweden #Brexit #EuropeanUnion #Europe #ForeignPolicy #Politics #WorldNews #UkNews #Migration #Health #Dementia #MentalHealth
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Einstürzende Neubauten live 2026-08-11, Uppsala, Sweden - https://youtu.be/_NTJwdgtEiM?si=1dcvu5n_j7oV5QoY
A detail from an improvisation, a so-called rampe.
#EinsturzendeNeubauten #rampe #LiveMusic #music #MusicTips #Sweden
