Malmo Trip :)

So yesterday was the first international travelling I've done since I got here. This is really dorky but I want to keep track of the number of countries I visit while I'm here, so I'm going to start numbering them so Sweden would be:

Trip-2

Life-14

Its a bit stupid really but its actually harder to keep track of then I would've thought and I want to remember the order in which I visit places for when I'm looking back.


Malmo was an interesting experience. Getting there was the easiest thing in the world, we litteraly just bought a $30 roundtrip ticket, got on the regional train and just commuted into Sweden. It was like less formal than taking the Mark Train to Baltimore. When we got to the train station in Sweden there were absolutely no customs, which was a good thing because 2 of the people I went with had forgotten their passports.

When we got there we made a b-line for the castle which turned out to be a VERY bizzare museum. It didn't help that absolutely everything was in Swedish. There were only about 4 rooms of the castle dedicated to castle like things and then the rest of the building was divided up into the most eclectic mix of exhibits possible. In the basement there was an aquarium, there was a section didicated to the history of Swedish labor struggles, a special exhibit on Nelson Mandela, a room dedicated to a detailed look at the different stages of pregnancy and some dinosaur replicas thrown in there. All of us felt kind of like we were in the twilight zone, it was a strange experience to say the least. But the rest of Malmo was lovely, even though it was freezing.


This is the square where we ate dinner its dark so its kind of hard to see. Malmo was danish territory for a long period of its history so alot of the city layout looks a lot like Copenhagen, with open plats and so on.

This is a cool set of bronze statues that look like a marching band, one of the famous malmo attractions, so I'm told.

This is the Malmo train station, where we got in. Its really pretty and surrounded by canals which are supposed to be lovely in the summer but are completely frozen over right now.

This is the turning torso, its avery famous building. I'm not really one for abstract architecture to be honest, but it seems to be a big thing in scandinavia. A lot of my friends at the hojskole are architecture students, so its kind of what the area is known for. in Copenhagen we have the Black Diamond, which is the new royal library and its also a very famous building. This was cool though, and completely redefined the Malmo skyline. I'm curious about how the people of the town reacted when it was first being built.