Ystad Saltsjobad

... whose pronunciation is so vastly different from the way it is written can be practical. But I hardly need to bother, since all you need to do to be certain that Swedish is made up is to listen to it. Just find a native speaker and have them give you one sentence, any sentence.

That is, clearly, how the characters in fairy tales speak.

But while all of Sweden is possibly fictional, Skane is particularly unreal. There is ...

... at Ostra Hoby Kyrka. After the wedding ceremony, there will be a reception hosted by Kat's parents at Vendel at Motesplats Osterlen (website: http://www.vendelrestauranger.se/start. asp) June 22nd (Sunday) - Brunch at Sjobacka Inn hosted by Paul's parents. (website: http://www.sjobacka.se) Whew! We will have a lot to do and see over the next few days! *I know these entries are a bit late...but, I will recap in the upcoming ones....stay tuned. Thanks!

We made it to the 8am Rostock - Trelleborg ferry- the longest ferry ride ever! Almost 6 hours later, we finally arrived after trying to sleep on a couple uncomfortable waiting area couches and on the top deck. We drove to Malmo where everything was closed on Sunday anyways and checked into Hotel Baltzar to sleep for a couple hours. Then we went for a stroll around the waterfront, and then went to the movies to see "This is England" which was great. Everyone there was ...

... we saw little hoofs coming out from under her tail. She was in labor as we spoke! Holly Cow!. For about 30 minutes she slowly walked around the field having contractions in series of three every few minutes. Each time the hoofs would come out a little bit more, but then hide back in again. As this was happening, the owners of the yaks emerged from the house on the other side of the field, and they started watching. Remarkably, between contractions, this mother to ...

... much a transient town for travelers heading to Germany. So we expected the most basic of accommodation to spend the night. Surprise # 1: The GPS system that Tony bought was one bright little contraption. Punch in the info and it took us right to the B&B doorstep! Surprise # 2: Our B&B was a rather quaint building housing 5 rooms, each gorgeously designed by the ...

Thursday 9/28 This morning I took a walk in Hellerup and did a bit of grocery shopping. Late morning I headed into the city center to take the train and the Oresund Bridge from Copenhagen over to Malmo, Sweden for the day, which will add at least a 16th country to to this world trip. I met couchsurfer intown4 for lunch and then walked around Malmo, visiting the harbor and it's medieval ship, Main Square ...

... got to know each other Eduardo, the lead guitar / vocalist invited me to stay with him in Malmo. Shortly thereafter our train drove directly onto a FERRY where we all took the ELEVATOR up to the top deck (5 floors up) and proceeded to purchase duty free RUM for some delicious tighteners on our way to Copenhagen.. These guys were in such a good mood because they were going home, I surely ran into them at the right moment.

... an awesome and huge sandwich with pesto, tofu and all sort of raw vegetables. and of course 2 different cakes....yummy. then we walked a bit more through malmo and in the afternoon we went to see the new pirates of the carabbean.... really cool...a little hard to understand for me without subtitles since some of the caracters has strange accent but i ...

... is at the extreme south of Sweden, facing Denmark across a pretty narrow stretch of water that separates the Baltic and North Seas. No doubt a busy waterway both past and present. To survey the local sights, we initially headed through rolling and frost-blasted farmlands to the high ground where the 59 megaliths of Ales Stenar lay in wait ...

... hospital. In the 1700s the building was used as distilleries and granaries. It was decided to tear down "the debris of the buildings due to lack of maintenance. Far-sighted citizens rescued and renovated the ...