P and I finally got some together time after all of his meetings.
Thursday evening, we went to the French place for pizza. While we couldn't do it for the 49Kr take out price that we did when we lived here (asking for a 2 cheese 3 cheese pizza as in without the blue cheese), the menu and atmosphere was the same, and the pizza was just as delicious as we remembered. Al has taught me bad habits, as I now ask for Prosecco or champagne instead of a beer. After that, we went to Liseberg to experience all its wonder with the twinkly lights and julmarknad stands. P bought some sugared almonds and I wandered around with a mug of glögg. We met a runaway reindeer. He was wandering around near Jultomten's factory. Apparently he didn't want to follow his master and give sleigh rides. It was cold. I was dressed for it; P was not.
Thursday evening, we went to the French place for pizza. While we couldn't do it for the 49Kr take out price that we did when we lived here (asking for a 2 cheese 3 cheese pizza as in without the blue cheese), the menu and atmosphere was the same, and the pizza was just as delicious as we remembered. Al has taught me bad habits, as I now ask for Prosecco or champagne instead of a beer. After that, we went to Liseberg to experience all its wonder with the twinkly lights and julmarknad stands. P bought some sugared almonds and I wandered around with a mug of glögg. We met a runaway reindeer. He was wandering around near Jultomten's factory. Apparently he didn't want to follow his master and give sleigh rides. It was cold. I was dressed for it; P was not.
Friday, we packed as much into the day as possible. We started with a drive out to the sea, to Arandal. Beautiful as always. Then, we hit IKEA and did the grocery shopping (yes, we came all the way to Sweden to do the groceries). Then lunch at our sushi place and lots of erranding, before wandering around the Stadsmuseet. I wanted P to see it because it's a lovely space and there's so much about the history of Göteborg that he just didn't know. He was a good soldier and showed appropriate interest. This year's julfilm is appropriately weird. Poseidon comes to life - with his fish. Dinner on Friday was at Dinner 22 on Södravagan. It was extraordinary. P started with elk carpaccio, which was out of this world, then we both had the reindeer, which was also out of this world. Desserts were a little more pedestrian. The best part of P's apple crisp was the rumpunch ice cream. And the kanelbullar crisps. I had the "chocolate parfait" which was an assortment of 3 chocolate things. There was a chocolate cannoli filled with blackberry cream, a medium chocolate triangle of mousse - nice, not overpowering, and a blob of white chocolate ganache which was out of this world. this was probably the best dinner I 've ever had, and I've eaten in a lot of wonderful places.
Gothenburg is enchanting with the lights and the snow. It's the perfect winter wonderland. No wonder they call it Sweden's julstad.
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