Swedish treats

Gorgeous packaging and postcards picked up in Gothenburg.

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I loved this collection of orange juicers at the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, an endless table of colour, pattern and shapes from the simple traditional wooden handles to the mass-produced moulded coloured glass and the more elaborate ceramic animals and characters.

Göteborg: day 3

Woke up to sunshine on our final day, spent the morning on a boat trip - its amazing how different the city looks and feels when the rain stops. Loved the layers of paint and masked letters on the side of ships, and interesting sculptures with prism heads or a stylish green scarf!

Spent a few hours in the park visiting the Palm House - designed as a copy of Crystal Palace - a tropical hothouse full of beautiful patterns and colours and textures. Found a lovely shop in Victoria Passage selling teacups, vintage fabric and handmade soaps, with branches floating from the ceiling (can't remember the name). Some sushi, salty liquorice, slush puppy and sun cream and then time to go home.

Göteborg: day 2

Walked along the canal to the Feskekorka, or 'Fish Church', Gothenburg's oldest food market full of freshly caught seafood - much more sophisticated than you'd expect but I guess the chaos happens around 5am!

Spent the rest of the morning in Haga, the city's oldest working-class suburb with lots of cafes, antique shops, galleries and clothes (fell in love with Twist&Tango). The constant drizzly rain was a bit depressing and the prices were too high - I could only bring back a photograph of my favourite ceramic bowl with hand-painted stylised vegetables.

Quirky shop signs, mini greenhouses, handmade leather clogs, sun-bleached linen curtains, cobbled streets ending in lush tree-lined hills, fruit in rubber baskets, peering into the window of an amazing jumble of bric-a-brac that is only open when the shopkeeper can be bothered (so said the guy next door!).

Hiding from the rain in museums all afternoon - the Röhsska Museum with its beautiful hand-painted ceiling of swirly textile patterns, and the Stadsmuseum, housed in the old offices and auction house of the Swedish East India Company. 

Göteborg: day 1

First stop - lunch at the Saluhallen, an indoor market built in the 1880s that was right next to our hotel - lucky us! Canteen-style broths and soups served in metal bowls and jugs of water, hot and humid with the drizzle outside and no time for chatting as the queues keep coming. Ryvita piled high with marinated cucumber and redcurrants became my new favourite dish!

Wandering around the city in the constant drizzle, lots of water and water-themed things to see, hotel boats in the harbour, perfectly symmetrical reflections of the architecture, unicorn sculptures around the fountain and the swimming pool on the roof of our hotel.

Interesting shop signs and fonts, blue bicycle and intricate window grille, quirky prints on net curtains and a poster for the Röhsska Museum of design, fashion and applied arts.