Atlantica - 01.05.2007, Síða 38

Atlantica - 01.05.2007, Síða 38
 a t l a n t i c a 37 He described something melodic yet punky and named a couple of other local bands like Silver Bullet and The Knife. We chatted for a half hour. Almgren was keen on visiting Iceland, where he had been following bands like Sigur Rós. And I asked them about their name, which Almgren said had its origins in a sort of alchemy – the fact that both artists came from quite different musical backgrounds. He paused after his official explanation. “It rolls off the tongue and it sounds dark but not evil,” he concluded. “And we’re like that.” Like, you’re not evil? “Yeah,” he responded. “We’re really dorky, kind of cuddly guys.” Take a touristy canal cruise. – Lorraine It felt small. Palli and I were strolling along the narrow paved streets of Vrängö Island, the third and final stop on Route 3 of the regular boats which ply the narrow waters at the mouth of the Göta älv river southwest of the city. The quiet timber houses with red corrugated roofs clustered together, separated only by the narrow bikeways. I wondered just how small it was. We stopped a middle-aged woman on her bicycle to ask about population numbers, but she wasn’t sure. “Lena!” the first woman cried to an acquain- tance who was cycling by. “How many people live here?” “Three hundred and eighty three,” Lena called back cheerfully (and with unexpected accuracy), and continued on her way. The tree-lined and somewhat rocky island is popular in summertime with city folk who come to lie on the beach and swim in the sea or stop at the sole café. Malin Johannsson, a 17-year-old who lives on the island, estimated that more than 3,000 tourists visit Vrängö each summer. At only a half-hour ferry ride from Gothenburg, many of the island’s residents commute daily to the city, their cars parked permanently in the parking lot by the city’s main loading point; cars aren’t allowed on Vrängö itself. There’s only one shop on the island and it’s closed daily between noon and 4 pm. The only other entertainment seems to be the spartan mini-golf course down by the sheep field, where seven anemic green strips of turf with yellow- and-red wooden railings have been dotted with various bumps, curves and wooden obstacles to create the challenge. Malin told me she mostly hangs out with friends in Gothenburg, but living in Vrängö is fun “in the summertime.” As I approached the ferry docks to return to town, I noticed the dozens of bicycles perched in tidy rows waiting for their owners to return. Not a single one was locked. The only “security” was the occasional plastic bag tied around a seat in case of unexpected rain during the day. Universeum, near Liseberg, is a rainforest indoors. Birds fly free inside the huge building. Not an ordi- nary museum…. – Ida I started shivering as I ascended a few floors in the glass elevator at Universeum, a relatively new science and technology museum located on the same grounds as the Liseberg amusement park. Why hadn’t they heated the elevator, I wondered? GothenburG a People had grabbed their take-out sushi, noodles in boxes, and prawn salads, and were sitting on the edge of the canal, their feet dangling over the water.
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