Best Western Royal Hotel Malmo Malmö

... sleeper train through the northern parts of German and Denmark, we traveled with two Swedish girls on their way to Gothenberg from Munich. I was just dying to try out the three words i've learnt in swedish in my 12 month absence. For the record, they were very impressed. They introduced me to a new word too - Fika. It's a social ...

... of course had to wash that down with some Swedish beer. Wouldnt have been complete without heaps of chocolate & 'candy' & some reminiscing about our time studying and working together in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia last year.

&#1042; &#1052;&#1072;&#1083;&#1100;&#1084;&#10 86; &#1084;&#1099; &#1073;&#1099;&#1083;&#1080; &#1087;&#1088;&#1086;&#1077;&#1079;&#10 76;&#1086;&#1084; &#1080; &#1088;&#1072;&#1085;&#1086; &#1091;&#1090;&#1088;&#1086;&#1084;... &#1075;&#1086;&#1088;&#1086;&#1076; &#1089;&#1087;&#1072;&#1083;...<br><br> ***********<br><br>Early in the morning we drove Malmo... city slept...

... though the bus dropped us more or less right next to the hostel. The hostel was advertised as a four bed dorm, but is really four beds partitioned in a 22 bed dorm. Despite this, the place is actually pretty nice, and we get both a kitchen and a room in which to drink tea and watch Swedish television, as well as meet random Argentineans. The Argentinean in question introduced himself, mentioned ...

... heading to the Fortress museum. After walking back past the library (free internet) it was already 6 so instead of grilling outside as we had planned, Bobbi, AJ &amp; Anna &amp; I walked over to the free concert by "New Sound Sity" that was being put on for us at the fortress (the town has local concerts every Tuesday). For live Danish music with a few American classics thrown into the mix, it was a great time. I sat on the hill with the SAS kids and talked ...

... was used for protecting the castle from the Danes mostly. And was properly equipped with the force and will to do so. Walking along the thin corridor were portraits and stories of the people that had roles in the border wars between Denmark and Sweden. Some of them funny and some of them filled with intrigue the Benedict Arnold's of the day. At the depths of this building you enter the actual place where the cannons were fired and was a circular chamber ...

Mom and I found our way around Købnhavn today. We went to the Statens Museum for Kunst, Amalienborg Slot (my navigation skills told me this was where the Little Mermaid statue was, but I was sadly mistaken), and Nyhavn. I had a slight mental breakdown around dinnertime, and Mom was forced to listen to the whining of what you would think was a 7-year-old child. Then we got some dinner at a Barbecue buffet (the salmon was ...

... in the first half of the 17th century. So, when I give it a good thought, even if I stand by everything I said about the understated beauty of København, it is nevertheless a real metropolis with a bunch of historical, cultural and architectural jewels which are larger in number than all those that entire countries have, some of them nonetheless having an unabashedly very high opinion of themselves and grave feeling of self-importance. But having crossed into Christianshavn ...

So I'm finally in Copenhagen and have recovered a bit from the flight. Both flights were delayed so I got to sit in the plane on a runway for a really long time. Once I got in we were taken to one of the University of Copenhagen's campuses...where we waited...and then waited some more. Finally we got a bus to our new housing (pictures to come when I'm less lazy). DIS rented out an ...

... the walls of Christiania you can't take any photos. Reky showed us through the place, and as it was starting to rain there weren't many people around, but you could tell that it was pretty shady! Reky had been there around 6am the day before, and within 10 minutes had been approached twice for pot! We spent about 20 minutes walking through the place... never venturing further than 2 feet away from Reky! When we left Christiania it started to pour! All ...