Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Day 7 - Malmö and Copenhagen

We managed to get up in time to hit last call for the hotel-supplied breakfast. Ooo chocolate croissant, I will remember you! After learning how to run the dishwasher, we ran to the train station to figure out tickets to Copenhagen, then checked out of the hotel and ran off to see some of the parks and squares.

There were bronze cats on the sides of the river near the train station.

We walked through Gustav Adolfs Torg, into the greenest cemetery I've ever seen. Grass, moss, trees, it was so green it felt unreal. Like The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. I think it was the moss that did it.


There were little patches of flowers popping up all over the place.

We kept walking through Kungsparken and Slottsparken (Evan's standing against the little building by the mill), poked our heads into the Malmöhus Castle, and made our way over to Lilla Torg.

We went into the Form/Design Center there, and I watched 3 people in orange take turns standing in this ditch, while Evan browsed the shop.

For lunch we hit a cafe over looking Lilla Torg.


After eating and coffee-ing, we found an internet cafe with sticky and confusing keyboards, picked up our luggage from the hotel, and rolled on back to the train station to jump on the train to Copenhagen.

On the way, peeped out what is surely a copyright infringement!

Got on the train with no problems. It was all so casual, it didn't even seem like we were leaving Sweden for Denmark.


And this is what it looked like to cross the Øresund Bridge.

In under an hour, we were rolling our luggage out of the main train station, towards the setting sun down Vesterbrogade. Jonas and Johanass told us we could ring them up when we got in, so after a few false starts on the cell phone, I resorted to using the good old-fashioned pay phone near Tivoli. They invited us over!

We walked around looking for some kind of beverage to bring to the dinner, and showed up horribly late!

But our hosts were gracious and awesome! They fed us burritos! They separated the chaff from the wheat on our tourist map!

We left them at midnight with a plan of attack.

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