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onsdag 17 februari 2010

24 hours in Linköping - Summer Edition

There are a lot of things that you can do in Linköping during the summer. And if you are only here for a day, let’s make that day the best that it can be!

Let us say that you wake up in a hotel room after having arrived very late the evening before. At the hotel, breakfast is most likely to be included so let’s start by enjoying that delicious Swedish breakfast. After the breakfast you could go to Tinnis, a central outdoors pool facility, with large green lawns and lots of places to sit down and just take in the Swedish summer sun or taking a swim in the pool or “lake”. If you are up for a snack you can visit the little kiosk to by an ice cream or some candy.

But for when you get really hungry, you can leave Tinnis, make a short stop at your hotel room to leave any belongnings that you do not wish to carry around and then pay a visit to a perfect summer lunch place, Wok Away. Why don’t you order it as take-away and take a walk down to our beautiful central park, Trädgårdsföreningen and sit down on a bench or on the big lawn at the centre of the park and enjoy your food.

You can probably sit here for many hours, but when you are up for something else one suggestion is that you take a walk through town and stop to bye an ice cream at Bosses ice cream bar. You can sit at one of the benches in the city, observing the life surrounding you. Or you can bring your ice cream and take a walk alongside the Stångå canal for a while. There are many bridges so you can get over to the other side whenever you’d like.

After a while, when you have enjoyed a hopefully sunny and great day, you can start thinking about the upcoming evening. Maybe you feel like buying a smashing evening outfit for the night? Then that won’t be too hard, since there is a lot of shopping opportunities in Linköping city.

As the day turns into night, maybe there is time for a stop at your hotel to get dressed for the evening. A great start for the night is to visit “Storan” on the big square for a drink or a beer in the warm summer breeze and when you feel that you are getting hungry you can pick one of the many outdoor dining’s where you can sit almost as long as you’d like. But hopefully you don’t stay there all night, but instead you go out and party on Ågatan, Maybe you start on “55an” and then continue your partying at Platå where you can dance all night long.




24 hours in Linköping – Spring/Autumn edition

A good way of starting your day when you are visiting Linköping is to visit “Old Linköping”, which is a part of the city preserved from about 200 years ago. Here you can visit a lot of different museums and stores to get to know more about how Sweden looked like before the modernization. You can also have your lunch here at some of the different restaurants that can offer you both a real meal and a cup of coffee and some Swedish pastries.

When you feel like you have had enough of culture get yourself down town for a shopping spread and some quality time with your travel companion at one of the coffee-shops.

Linköping offers a great variation of restaurants. If you feel like having some Greek food, than have your dinner at Olympia. Here you will find yourself in a cosy environment with delicious food on your plate.

The perfect ending to this quite calm and relaxed day would be with some action. Therefore you should get you and your friends to Industrigatan 38 for some Laser dome.

24 hours in Linköping - Winter Edition

If you happened to be in Linköping during the winter season you might ending up asking your self “What is there to do today in this town?”. Well, lucky for you, we have the answers to your question!

After waking up and having your breakfast you should get yourself into the centre of Linköping for a shopping spread. (For more information about the shopping in Linköping, check out the category “Shopping”) When you’re starting to get hungry I would recommend you to visit the restaurant in Trädgårdsföreningen called Tropikhuset (http://www.tropikhuset.nu/ N.B. page in Swedish). Here you will find a beautiful environment and a quite different restaurant with good food that is not too expensive.

During the afternoon, why not take a walk and look at the annual exhibition called vinterljus, in English “Winter light”, arranged by the municipality of Linköping. Just make sure that it is dark outside when you are taking this walk, or else the experience will not be as great as it can be.
Linköping is an ice hockey town and we are very proud of our team LHC. If you happened to be in town during a game night, you should definitely go and watch the game. If not, why not play some bowling at one of the bowling saloons?

To complete the day I would recommend you to end you day at Ågatan, either by visiting the cinema or with a few bears at some of the pubs and clubs at Ågatan (for more information, check out the category Nightlife).