Continental Hotel Halmstad
Kungsgatan 5, (formerly Ramada) Halmstad, Halland, West Coast, 302 45, Sweden
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This is what the World is for; Making Electricity
This weekend my host mom took me to their summer house in Bastad, Skane, Sweden. This is in Southern Sweden, extremely close to Denmark. Oliver had a tennis camp and Lisa wanted to go to a famous museum in Denmark.
The house was a 100 year old farm house and it was absolutely beautiful. We spent our time sipping tea, reading books, and watching movies. We even sat by Oresund and ...
Hiking time is fun time!
The car drive from Malmö to Torekov took a little more than an hour. We departed a few minutes after 8 am. From Torekov Harbor we had to take a short boat ride to the island. Then off we went hiking, packed with water and lunchboxes ;)
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A quaint seaside village aka middle of nowhere
... but things often time become lost in translation.
The town of Torekov itself consists of three shops and four restaurants, it is charming, but bring cash before you come because they don't have a bank or an ATM.
Our accommodations are exceptionally nice. My mom's cousin's family owns a large potato farm, and many houses throughout the village. We are staying in an apartment attached to the main house, this consists of two floors, three ...
Scrumptious apple meringue pie
... Helsingborg is closest to Denmark and every 20 minutes car and passenger ferries cross Oresund strait to Helsingor. Its a good and cheap option for crossing between Sweden and Denmark and I guess the only option until the Oresund bridge was built. Four km across the strait you can see Hamlet's Elsinore castle ( Kronoborg castle) at Helsingor.
After lunch we headed up the coast via Tylosand. Tylosand is a 6km sandy beach which would be gorgeous ...
Very Relaxing, Indeed ;)
The weekend has been so relaxing! It's my first time to go to a Spa-hotel and I thought it was liberating to be able to go around wearing robes ;) massage, gym, sauna+freezing cold ocean+hot tub, swimming pool and the food was delish... I really have no complains at all!
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