http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Sweden , Skane , Malmo en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:07:32 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:07:32 BST Christmas time is not only a time for spending time with your family spending money eating good food exchanging gifts watch classic movies on television. It is also a time for travel. For most people this means traveling ldquohomerdquo. Also for myself this was the reason for making a short stop at Malm central station in transit between Amsterdam and my hometown in Sweden. Screening th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-275449.html ... och p den sjunde dagen la Gud ner sina lersaker fr att resa ivg med sin backpack Och fr de som undrar vad man kan ha i en backpack s kan fljande avsljas Den r en stor vska som innehller tv medelstora vskor en stor vattenttt kompressionsvska tv sm vattenttta psor in case of Tsunami en kameravska fem olikfrgade sm bags en vattenflaska en knivfodral en liten vska http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-263660.html Us new arrivals wanted to check out the nearby city of Lund Swedens thirdlargest city and only fifteen minutes by train. Since most of us still didn't have any classes or they could still be skipped we decided we would go today. Originally it was me Svenja and Hannes but later on me and Svenja ran into Georg a Swiss guy living in a Swedish corridor in this building while we were heading to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-236858.html Cause I bet I've been in more. Now equipped with a ghettofabulous havemorepagesadded passport the real travel has begun. But I left off in Belgium so I'll work my way back.The night of the second day in Belgium was interesting to say the least. We went to a Congolese restaurant out on one of the metro lines on Brussels. It took a little while to find because for all it's benefits lon http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-231164.html After staying for a few days with Amanda and Vanessa in Lund but spending all of our sightseeing time exclusively in Denmark I finally got the chance to see a bit of Sweden. Amanda had school Friday morning so she helped me plan a walkabout route through Malm which is the third largest city in Sweden with a big university an active port and a long history of industrialism and changing nation http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-222425.html Sweden http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-219493.html Getting SettledDay 2 and 3 of Malmo were...exahusting We got pretty much everything set up to live here minus an apartment of course thatrsquos today Day 4rsquos work. On Wednesday we went around town and stopped by a ton of places including 3 job centres if yoursquore looking for a job in Malmo try www.ams.se its all in Swedish but it has a ton of job links and updates with new jobs http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-198381.html Day 1 in MalmoHello all welcome to the Malmo Blog I'll try to update it as much as possible but I will be spending a bit of time on Facebook as well so if you have an account there check me out there To begin the story... both Amanda and I did not feel even as we were landing in Sweden that this journey was beginning. We felt that it started the moment we saw a viking ship which we assume w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-197323.html For the final long weekend of the year we decided to visit Sweden. We scored a cheapish flight to Malmo there was the added bonus of being a stones throw from Copenhagen. The downside of cheap flights is the inconvenience of getting to the airport at strange hours. We eneded up arriving at the airport at 2am tried to get a few hours kip alongside the hords of other people. The seats had been s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-196936.html Today we made one last foray into Copenhagen before we rode the train under the Oresund bridge to Malmo to meet our friends Johan and Charlotte and their daughter Olivia. We met in the Train Station and walked over to the Little Square for lunch. Then we went back to their apartment and got settled in. Later that night we went out for a delicious dinner and some coffee. We walked through their http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-190753.html Ok right now I'm at the stupid Sidewalk Express in Malm waiting for the nighttrain to Stockholm. I missed the other train so now I'm stuck here with an expensive train ticket and an empty stomach. I haven't eaten anything except a slice of bread and some Toblerone. Yeah I should work on that.So I haven't written a thing since Italy and that was...last week I have no idea. The days just go on http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-187245.html It's my first Swedish Top League hockey game. In fact I think I share that experience with all the members of our little group. Maybe the Finn has done it before. Probably not the German or the Swiss. Definitely not the Belgian. The arrangement is professional. Starts off with the national anthem of Sweden. Just in case the lyrics are on a little TV screen in the ceiling. National anthem karaoke http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-184782.html Karaoke sections of nightclubs are like gambling tables for outcasts. People who don't dance or are tired of dancing and several other reasons. This girl doesn't seem like an outcast though. On the contrary she knows exactly what she's doing. Up until this point the song had been good even very good. This very performance was an eyeopener though. It made me realize that Sweet Child Of Mine http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-184309.html Still at home but it finally feels like the most important aroundtheworldtrip preparations are done Destinations flight tickets international drivers license visas guide books safety bank account dentist insurance etc. But it hasn't been all hard work. I got to relax from preparations and feel very calm by visiting two places A small warminguptrip to Gotland which was not as sunn http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-183593.html Breakfast food The breakfast food in Sweden is very interesting to say the least. I think the most unusual was the caviar in the tube. As disgusting as this may sound to some of you it was very good and came in many different flavors straight caviar caviar and cheese and many more. The tubes look like giant tubes of toothpaste. I must say I was pleasantly surprised at how good this was with http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-182231.html Lisa Nilsson is one of the most well established recognized not to mention popular Swedish artists. The Swedish queen of soul. Not necessarily my kind of music. But she can unarguably sing. And since the concert is in my city...and for free...what the hell... She does her thing the hit songs mixed with some rather uninteresting deep monologue. A solid performance. It is towards the end of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-180158.html How about a lastminute Elton John concert Usually going to a concert requires some planning not the least in the aspect of acquiring tickets. A bit surprisingly though the concert is not sold out so we get tickets only a couple of hours before the concert. An artist in this league the highest of them all should guarantee a great show but due to the short notice I havenrsquot had the time http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-180147.html En zo gingen we op pad.....A2 A67 makkie. Aardig weer zelfs pas na Bremen af en toe een plensbui....Alleen bij Osnabruck een file waardoor we niet zeker waren van onze overtocht vanaf Puttgarden naar Rodby Denemarken om 1430 uur. Toch gehaald . 20 minuten voor we bij Puttgarden waren hebben we op Tom moeten inpraten omdat hij er zeker van was dat de auto niet op de boot kon . Boot w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-179918.html I was tempted to title this post ldquoSjlland Zealand and Swedenrdquo but I promised to avoid such. This is a two part entry covering a couple of day trips I made from Copenhagen yes I was able to tear myself away. July 6 2007 Waking to another gloomy grey day I felt inspired to undertake a Shakespearean pilgrimage to Hamletrsquos Elsinore now called Helsingr and its castl http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-178066.html MalmonbspEurope raquonbspSweden raquonbspMalmo By Miss JulieJune 18th 2007MalmoJulie J Vanover I took a day trip to Malmo from Copenhagen it was a little less than a half hour train ride over this huge bridge. I liked riding over the water on this huge bridge. I didn't realize that Copenhagen was so close to Sweden. I really didn't know anything about Malmo I just knew that I wanted to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-174966.html It was only 30 minutes from copenhagen http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-169897.html Left Stockholm for Malmo on the morning of 15th of Feb. With the fast express train it took only 4 hours or smooth and quiet journey thru the thickly wooded forests and farm lands of south Sweden. There is something so convenient and refreshing to get on a comfortable train in the city center of one town and end up in the city center of the next bypassing the airports.The culture shock was not http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-132783.html On our last day in Copenhagen we decided to take the train ride over the Baltic Sea to the little town of Malmo Sweden. It was about 30 minute train ride from Copenhagen and aside from the hurricane force winds that kept anyone from storing luggage overhead it was a pretty uneventful ride. The main center of town was very small but it did have a very quaint atmosphere. We wandered the steets http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-128407.html It was a busy day for Mirjam and I We headed to Malm and had quite a list to cover. Our first stop was at the Malm Museum which is located at the Malmhus Castle. It's Sweden's oldest surviving renaissance castle and a monument from Malm's Danish period. Hard to believe but this castle houses 4 museums on the inside Yup you can find the City Museum the Natural History Museum the Aquariu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-119811.html I'm currently packing and cleaning my apartment since I'll be moving to Linkping this fall. I'll study applied ethology and applied vertebrate zoology there until january. It might not sound that exiting but it is. Being in Linkping means that I'll be really close and do some projects at Klmrden a big animalpark. I've found an apartment that I will share with a girl Sara whom I got to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-78679.html Our night train to Berlin leaves out of Malm tonight so we spent most of the day just wandering around the city. The train ride in is great because there is an 8 kilometer bridge over the sea whicever one it is and it only takes about half an hour from Copenhagen central station. We wandered into a cool church I still cant get over how smaller towns like this have humungous super old churches http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-77526.html so yesterday we woke up at like 1 30 pm. we felt like sleeping in a little since we wake up at 8 every other morning. we had to use our sleep sheets because this place is covered in cat hair. there are 2 cats here who have more privileges than my aunts own children. my cousin Alma picked us up in her death car the breaks don't work and took us for some window shopping downtown. The best item we http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-74596.html Well that one didn't quite go to plan all the trains to Stockholm were booked solid so the 16km across the Oresund to Malmo was all that was covered today. So Malmo pleasant in an underwhelming sort of way. Quite a large town city that originally grew up as part of Denmark it's more recent history was based around heavy industry and while there are some nice little streets and buildings of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-62120.html I realized that I'm not very good at updating you guysWell.. part of it is because I moved back to Malmoe from Stockholm. Where I studied ethology for 10 weeksI'm currently back in my apartment in Malmo studying genetics and microbiology at Lunds university.So... what's happened since my last entry Well.. My dad turned 60 in the middle of april. He invited all of us the family Johan to Du http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Skane/Malmo/blog-59158.html