2013-05-14. Published in What's Going On?
by Louise

City Beat: The Spring is Here

Saturday the 2nd of April at 12.00 the spring is officially off to its start and we are going to celebrate it! If you would like to join in, come down to Avenyn.

On Avenyn, which is the main-street in the center of Gothenburg you can find many entertaining things to do, especially on this day! Eighteen of the restaurants and cafeterias around the area are opening their outdoor sitting, and twenty-five shops are opening their doors for an outside experience. This is going to be the first and biggest celebration of spring on Avenyn.

On this specific Saturday most cafes are ...

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2012-11-23. Published in Hands-on Guides
by Sarah

Misi Test Panel: Lussebullar

In Sweden, we celebrate Luciadagen (Lucia Day) on the 13th of December every year. Besides the wonderful concerts, the tradition of eating Lussebullar is also very popular. Especially the combination of a Lussebulle and a cup of Glögg. We from the Misi Test Panel Team wanted to find out: Where do you get the best Lussebullar in Gothenburg and tried out some of the town's most famous places.

1)      Brogyllen, 17 SEK

Smell: This Lussebulle smelled doughy and we could not smell any saffron at all.
Look: Really nice looks. It had a perfect ...

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2012-09-25. Published in What's Going On?
by Sanna

City beat: The dining week in Gothenburg

"Krogveckan", or loosely translated The dining week, started last Friday and will continue just another week. The concept has it's roots in New York, and in Sweden it is an arrangement between 112 different restaurants around the country. Krogveckan is a perfect opportunity to explore the dynamic dining culture in Gothenburg.

17 Gothenburg restaurants will give you a special offer on food this week. Each dish costs only 100 kronor, if you eat at least two dishes per person. It is not an offer which will make you ...

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2012-07-01. Published in Uncategorized
by Caroline

Misi takes a holiday!

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2012-06-27. Published in Life in Gothenburg
by Sera

Misi goes sightseeing: Falköping

Falköping is a little town northwest of Gothenburg. In Falköping, nature, food and traditional crafts take an important position. Falköping is, so far, Sweden’s only “Slow City”. Slow City is a global network for towns which live up to certain criteria. The main aim of Slow City is the improvement of life quality for all the town inhabitants. Moreover, there are other important goals like, for example, protection of the environment, promotion of a healthier lifestyle and the enforcement of cultural diversity. The Slow City concept is strongly connected to the Slow ...

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2012-06-24. Published in Language & Culture
by Nils Pasi

Discovering Swedish: 'Vad kostar mat...?' and numbers 25-99 (Episode 7)

Today we present the seventh part of our a weekly 10 parts podcast series on the Swedish language. Each episode contains a short dialogue, some key vocabulary and key sentences, as well as an accompanying PDF file with grammatical explanations, example sentences, vocabulary lists and more.
The series is designed to introduce beginners' level Swedish, with each episode focussing of a specific sentence pattern or grammatical feature. For the first few episodes, for example, we're presenting the main parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives and so on).

Episode seven:

In this episode we cover ...

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2012-06-22. Published in Language & Culture
by Emma

The Native: Summer Houses

When the weather gets warm and nice and the summer is getting closer, the Swedes escape the cities for the countryside or the seaside. The summer house, or the "sommarstuga", is kind of a resort where a family goes to get away from the city and the stress to relax and have a nice time.

 

A summer house is a temporary accommodation used during the summer months, vacations and weekends. Many Swedish summer houses have been descended for generations and originally they were small farms, cottages or homesteads. Traditionally, it was a small ...

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2012-06-20. Published in Uncategorized
by Caroline

Jay Smith: Like a Prayer

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2012-06-18. Published in Life in Gothenburg
by Caroline

Citybeat: Kungälv Medieval Festival

If you're in Gothenburg on the 19th -22th of July don't miss the exciting event of the Medieval festival in Kungälv that celebrates that 10 years! There will not only a market where you can buy everything from newly baked bread to medieval products, shirts, swords and so on but also a tournament where brave knights fight each other to win while the King and Queen of this festival watches. There will be jesters peforming during the day and bands performing in the evening in one of the many old taverns ...

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2012-06-17. Published in Language & Culture
by Nils Pasi

Discovering Swedish: 'Norrlänningar' and numbers 12-24 (Episode 6)

Today we present the sixth part of our a weekly 10 parts podcast series on the Swedish language. Each episode contains a short dialogue, some key vocabulary and key sentences, as well as an accompanying PDF file with grammatical explanations, example sentences, vocabulary lists and more.
The series is designed to introduce beginners' level Swedish, with each episode focussing of a specific sentence pattern or grammatical feature. For the first few episodes, for example, we're presenting the main parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives and so on).

Episode six:

In this episode we cover ...

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