The Viking better known under her Swedish name as Barken Viking is a four-masted steel barque which was built in 1906 by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen, Denmark.
She came permanently to Gothenburg in 1950 as a home for different shipping institutions and later as a school of seamanship. Today she is moored in the Gothenburg [...]
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Tilt Your Head…
Posted in Places, Statues, tagged Angered Centrum, Art, Gothenburg, Sweden on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This artwork is behind the local shopping mall in Angered.
Spray That Wall
Posted in Buildings, Places, tagged Angered Centrum, Gothenburg, Graffiti, Sweden on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Graffiti on the local library wall at Angered Centrum, a suburb 20 minutes northeast of Gothenburg.
Malfunction
Posted in Places, tagged Angered Centrum, Gothenburg, Playground, Sweden on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This playground is located in a suburb to Gothenburg, Angered, it actually wasn’t planned to be used as a playground but as a place for adults to exercise. Since the adults weren’t interested in working out the children took over the place.
IKEA Isn’t That Cheap!
Posted in Buildings, Places, tagged Bäckebol, Gothenburg, IKEA, Sweden on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How come IKEA needs to have a sale (rea in swedish) when they claim to be so cheap? Because they aren’t really that cheap to begin with and they need to get rid of all the old rubbish so they can replace it with new rubbish so that people like me can go and buy [...]