For our last day in Europe we took the train over to Sweden, which is about a 30 min train ride from Copenhagen. First we had to get from Helsingor, where the conference is, to Copenhagen, drop off our luggage, then get back on the train to Sweden luggage-free, so it actually took a little while and we didn't make it to Malmo until early afternoon. Malmo is the town closest to Copenhagen that is right on the Oresund part of the Atlantic ocean between the two cities. It's a beautiful town and we had a spectacular time looking at the Malmo castle (built by Christian II, way earlier than the other two castles we looked at), shopping in the much less busy pedestrian malls, and visiting the parks. Like Copenhagen, Malmo had a spectacular public library, and both libraries boasted an older-than-the-USA part with a modern and huge addition added onto it. We were amazed.
A friend of mine, who posts here frequently as austinboy, is originally from Sweden and sent us some recommendations for our journey there. He recommended: cheese in a tube from the grocery store, blood pudding (real blood), candy, chocolate, pizza, kebab, cake and cheesecake. Noticeably, no places to go or see were included on his list. While we nixed the tube cheese and blood pudding, and were already full on candy, chocolate, cake and cheesecake from our stay at the fabulous hotel during the Enterococci meeting, we did try Swedish pizza and it was very good. I think they have a major advantage over us on their pizza because their cheese is so heavenly. They also put some interesting things on it like shrimp and mussels.
Pictures:
Malmo Castle
Pedestrian Mall
Windmill in the castle park
Malmo Castle
Pedestrian Mall
Windmill in the castle park
2 comments:
Last DAy!!!! you just got there!! Have Fully Clothed Coworker get you two arrested or something so you can stay longer. Swedish jails are so much nicer than the hostles. I guess the only thing really to see in Malmo that is kind of intesesting to see is the Turning Torsoe apt building. By far the tallest building it is a little out of town but it is archatechurally pretty crazy. I hope you saw it at least on the horizon. Sorry for the awfull spelling...I'm druuuuuuunk. Have a good trip back.
We DID see the Turning Torsoe apt building, it's hard to miss. Fully Clothed Coworker even took a picture, although we didn't know what it was at the time. It looked to us like not only was it twisting but it was also leaning, although we were both not only drunk but high on some crack we picked up in Christiana, back in Copenhagen.
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