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Published: January 17th 2008
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Typical Lund Street
So here's a typical Lund street. One tip: never go inline skating in Lund. Us new arrivals wanted to check out the nearby city of Lund, Swedens third-largest 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 our coordinator (who wasn't there, we forgot the IO was closed). We invited him and he joined as well (and skipped a class!).
So off we went, probably my first visit to downtown Lund in daylight. I noticed it was more pitoresque than I thought so I started taking loads of pictures. I explained to Hannes, Svenja and Georg that pictures are better with people in it so during the day they opened up to this concept. Because of this you will see them appearing on pictures more and more as they are taken later 😉. At the station we bought a skånetrafikken (I think I spelled it right) which is basicly a public transportation card. If you live here you apparantly can't go without
Lund Cathedral
Probably the biggest building in Lund, easy to find. It's right downtown, so also easy to meet. one so here's to our first skånetrafikken card!
Trainride was nothing special, though Swedish trains are really nice I must say. Tried to do a sudoko with Georg, it's hard, collaborating on a sudoko in English, pointing out all the wrong squares 😉.
Anyway, we arrived safely in Malmö! There we were. After orienting ourselves we headed out into the city. At first it seemed a bit bland and quiet (is there a Swedish law that says all the barbershops need to be right next to eachother??) but as we walked and walked we soon found out that Malmö had more to offer. There was a really nice cobblestone square with the Moosehead Bar as well as Mellow Yellow (the Swedes have awesome names for their bars really) and some of those nice old buildings. There's also this thing, which I'm wondering about; It's sort of a hall with all sorts of foreign food bars, sushi, kebab, pasta, stuff like that, but all in one hall. I think we have one in Lund as well so I guess it's a Swedish thing. Well, it was interesting to look at, as were the streets and some of the shops
Lund C
The station and the train! and finding our way between all the 'torgets', 'väge', 'gatan' and so on (Swedish for 'plein'/'square' and 'weg'/'road').
So we went to this park that was around the Malmö 'castle'. It looked really nice and the best part: There was a windmill! I felt right at home. Canals and windmills, Dutch culture has a far reaching influence 😊. So we walked around, made some funny photos and then went into the 'castle'. It wasn't really that big a castle, though it did have a moat so that's something I guess. There was this exhibition with a song from Bob Dylan (it's a hard hard rain or some such) were they had contemporary photos about global warming, torture, war, but also happy ones, to show that this song can still be applied to a lot of the problems we have nowadays. It was 'fun' in a weird sort of way.
Well, all this art, walking and nature gets one hungry, so we went back to the weird building with all the foodstands and had some old-school kebab. It tasted great and we all dug in. Refreshed and all we were gonna go for a bigger walk. This time over
Malmö street
This is a street in Malmö. Here you can hold little children as indicated on the sign. the main square, all the way south towards a chocolate factory and a reptile museum (while going along the main shopping street). Main square was nice, apparantly the town hall is redecorated in Dutch Renaissance style, though I couldn't recognize it. I'm sure it's true though. People ice skating and my first snow in Sweden (scraps from the ice track I take it). Headed up north, through the mall, than walked around a museum once before asking if this was actually the chocolate factory, which it wasn't. When we finally got there it was closed...
Ah well, onwards to the reptile museum! It is in this public park and when we arrived we were greeted by kangooroos! You don't really expect these funny little creatures in the middle of Sweden on a cold windy day, but they were outside (though they fled inside when we approached...). Went inside and took a look at snakes, scorpions, spiders, lizards, fish, monkeys (lot of them as well, they were really active and funny, no bokito though), kangooroos, crocodiles and parrots. I think the pictures are nicer to look at than anything I can tell about it. Place was somewhat larger than we
Malmö wall decoration
This was on a random wall. I'm sure it has some deeper meaning but we have yet to find it. expected, which was nice. Also there were some loose monkeys but they were quite shy. Luckily for us the really poisonous stuff was caged (they had a Mamba!). I did note one thing, reptiles are really, really, really still. I guess I should've known but the point was hamered home by most creatures who just lay there. We did catch a big lizard moving on film though with a big throat-flap! Ask for it if you want to see something funny 😊
So, it was even colder when we got outside (we were visiting a reptile museums and I can tell you, reptiles like their heating) and what do you do when your cold: Drink a beer. We wanted to go to the moosehead bar because of the name but alas! It was closed! So onwards to the Mellow Yellow which was right niext to it. There we got ripped off for our beers (but you get used to that real fast in Sweden) and than we just walked straight back. One thing to note: I really liked Malmö by night. It makes the city seem very much alive, a bit less so during the day.
So again,
Funny guy@Ball
There was this ball with funny things on it. It was an earth-creation story I think. kudos for making it to the end! In summary: The trip was cooler than expected and I will definitely visit Malmö again (even if it was just for Ikea, we wanted to go there but we took too long walking the city). My supervisor told us today that we missed quite the exhibition in the Kunsthallen in Malmö.
Next stop: Copenhagen!
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Leon
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Wow
As a first a compliment for the writing style. Make sure to do something historically important in Sweden and afterwards bundle it all to make a bestseller.. looks like a 'real' travel journal. Lot of text though. I can see that you are amusing yourself :) ( and still have spare time to write lots of lettery-things )