To Sweden and back

It was not raining this morning but I had already decided that today I was going to take a little side trip to Malmo Sweden…for business!

So off I set for the train station….got my first return ticket with the machine….with a guide helping in the background. The train (and cars) go over the  Øresund bridge, about 8kms….then a tunnel, connecting Denmark to Sweden. The trouble is when you are on the train you don’t get the view of the bridge or the strait as you would if you are in a car or a bus….oh well the next time!

I spent a few hours wandering the streets around the train stations finding a couple of caches and taking some pictures….then the wind came up and some threatening clouds so I headed back to the train.



Guess what I'm doing!



Malmo



I was back in Copenhagen by about 3 and the weather was not too bad. So I started exploring the city…..outside Trivoli Gardens, the 2^nd oldest amusment park opened in 1843, the statue of Hans Christian Andersen, Strøget - Pedestrian Street, the longest pedestrian street in the world (?). The streets are narrow with many beautiful buildings and small plazas every few streets.

HCA

Stroget Street

Pay 20K for the bike,,,like a shopping cart,
drivie it, drop it off in another location,
get your money back!

Then the skies open….up until now the sun was shining, there was a wind….but all of a sudden it started to pour….people took refuge to wait it out. I was getting hungry and my feet were getting tired so I got some take out from a little shop on the pedestrian steet (Chinese food) and a couple of pastries for breakfast and headed for the hotel….a little over a kilometer away. By the time I got to H.C. Andersens Boulevard the rain

had stopped but the wind was still blowing.

I got back to the hotel ate my dinner and I was intending to explore this neighbourhood this evening….but I looked out again and it was pouring again….Vancouver weather, so now I’m planning what I’m going to do tomorrow….it’s supposed to good weather…..

PS as I'm ready to send publish this, the wind picked up and the rain came down heavier....