The Wheel Of Gothenburg

Every city has to have an ‘Eye’ these days.

It’s interesting that the Vienna Prater Ferris Wheel has been going round and round for decades with no copiers.

London with it’s over abundance of employees in the marketing sector brands it’s observation wheel as a ‘Millennium Eye’ and suddenly a city cannot hold it’s head up in the international community unless it has an ‘eye in the sky’ of it’s very own.

Paris has made do with a fairground one at the end of the Champs Elysee.

Dublin has recently bought the one from Belfast, but it wasn’t in use when we were there because it still had the Belfast signage on it.

Beijing is building the World’s largest wheel. Perhaps when locals get to the top only to realise the smog is so bad that no-one can see anything on the ground that they will start lobbying for a clean air act.

And Gothenburg has one too.

The Wheel Of Gothenburg has capsules which seat 6. It has to stop six times in a full turn for everyone to board. Then it spins and spins you right round like it's being operated by Dead Or Alive. You certainly get your moneys worth because as it is not tremendously high, it revolves around many many times; perhaps more than it needs to for you to get the point.

What I found particularly funny is that for a greater fee you can book yourself into the VIP pod… which has blacked out windows!

And guess who forgot to take their camera... You'll have to make do with this from off my phone.