Sweden, Lund & Malmo
Trip Start
Mar 11, 2008
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Trip End
Mar 10, 2009
Sweden,
Sweden
Monday, August 18, 2008
There was a free festival going on for a week in Malmo, so we went there 2 evenings & enjoyed the music. There was a guy named Mike Patten who used to be in Faith no More & now calls himself Mondo Kane, he is originally from Italy & sang in Italian with the Malmo orchestra. It was unusual music & Mike was very rude but entertaining. He kept taking the mickey out of the Swedish people but no one left the concert...a few nights later we watched a band called Backdrop Murphy's who were really good.
I spent an afternoon looking around Lund which is an old town with some history, there is an old cathedral,botanical gardens,fine arts building,impressive university building,lovely cobbled streets an markets
A Twisted Gun..Modern Art
.I also explored Malmo by day which is a 10min train ride from Lund & saw the sites. I saw the Turning Torso, a very impressive twisted building 190m high with with 54 storey's, the highest building in Sweden, it is twisted at a 90 degree angle from bottom to top. I visited the oldest Renaissance Castle in Scandinavia,St Peter's church built in baltic brickin the 15th centry. The city hall which was built in 1546,the residence of the country governor & Kocksa Huset one of the most well preserved 16th centry building in Malmo.
I also walked through Kungsparten gardens with a lovely canal running through it,Slottstradgarden where you can buy exotic fruits,veg & plants & much much more. You can spend days here just watching people from all over the world, which really bizzare haircuts & fashion & you can here more than 50 different launguages being spoken.
I was planning on heading to Stockholm & then Helsinki but could not find a bed in any hostels, some close from the 10th Aug & others are fully booked. It is also more expensive here than Denmark so have decided to change direction & take the train to Berlin.
So bye for now, will update again soon. Jo
