The main office OanApril & SeptDec MonFri 9am5pm, Sat 10am2pm; May MonFri 9am6pm, Sat & Sun 10am2pm; beginning to midJune & mid to end Aug daily 9am6pm; nudJune to midAug daily 9am8pm; e03110 07 40) is a fiveminute walk dovra Ostra Hamngatan, on the canal front at Kungsportsplatsen 2; again, there are free maps, a room booking service, and restaurant and museum listings. The Gothenburg Card 'Ч A popular move is to buy a Goteborgskortet, or Gothenburg Card, a pass which gives unlimited bus and tram travel, free museum entry and various other concessions (detailed in the text where applicable). Moreover the card also grants a free day trip to Fredrikshavn on the Stena Line ferry, making it a cheap way to leave Sweden for Denmark. The card is valid for 24 (lOOkr), 48 (175kr) or 72 (225kr) hours, or for seven days (550kr) children roughly halfprice and you can buy it fiom either tourist office, Pressbyrdn kiosks or campsites and hotels in the city. jf Getting around Gothenburg is perhaps the most immediately attractive Swedish city for walking. Unlike Stockholm, there are no forbidding central streets or distant islands, and ' fr secluded parkland is generally close at hand. Having said this, the walk from the central transport terminals up and down the main boulevard, Avenyn, can be к fairly tiring, and to reach the youth hostels and some of the sights you can't avoid trams with whitegloved drivers ply the liseberg and Slottsskogen routes. using some form of transport. To that end pick up a fiee transport map (Linje Kartan) from the tourist office, which details all the city routes and those in the surrounding area. Public transport Most tempting for short hops are the trams that clunk around the city and i outskirts. There are eight lines, all of which pass through somewhere faiw central at some stage, so you can't go too far wrong. During the summer, vin The terminal outside Central Station (Centralstationen) or the ranks Dortplatsen are the easiest places to pick one up just check the destina •"d number on the front to make sure of your direction. Buses use much 'J"" g routes, but central pedestrianisation can lead to some odd and lengthy H urs You shouldn't need to use them at all in the city centre; routes are Htled in the text where necessary. F ch city journey costs two 6.5kr tickets (13kr); 7 to 16yearolds go for half • You buy tickets from the bus or tram driver, who can also sell you a ''"metic value card for lOOkr worth having if you're in town for a couple of !Г s as it brings the 13kr fare down to 8kr and can be used by more than one rson at a time. It's cheaper still to buy the card from Tidpunkten offices (see stings") which also sell 50kr cards or from Pressbyran or }a kiosks. Stick the card in the machine on the bus or tram, press 2 for city rides, 1 for a child, and the fare will be automatically deducted. If you need to change within the hour, put the card back in the machine before you get off and press Byte.