Blogs from Skåne County, Sweden, Europe

There is a small island just off the coast from Torekov where we are staying and a ferry runs 2 or 3 times a day. Yesterday the wind was too strong for the ferry to operate, so we drove to the Kullen peninsular. On the way we stopped at a memorial to where a UFO was reported as landing in 1946. I haven’t read the details as these are in a book, but next to the memorial is a place where 2 dead aliens were supposedly buried temporarily while the UFO made repairs. Will try to find a copy of the book in English. On the peninsula we walk to the Kullen lighthouse. This is the oldest lighthouse in Scandinavia and was originally built in 1561. It is also the highest and the most powerful in ... read more

It was time to head back home- we had a rental car to return and a 6 hour journey, south bound on highway E6 towards Malmö, Sweden. We took a little break and trekked up to explore a bit of the Swedish countryside to view the magnificent coast line! As highway E6 ran parallel to the coast we were never too far away from the water! Most of the countryside in Sweden and Norway had the classic red painted barns and vast expanses of agricultural land. Also along the highway were numerous windmills fulfilling the need for green Eco-sustainability We reached Malmö and had dinner at an Indian restaurant called Urban Turban, to overcome our spice withdrawal :) and then walked around the city to see Malmö’s pride — the Turning Torso, the tallest skyscraper in ... read more

When your contracts run out at work and you are to be unemployed for the next 3.5 months, perhaps choose somewhere cheap to celebrate no longer receiving a salary. Or, go to Scandinavia. And live off falafel. Sharing a single beer in four days. The flights were cheap. Edinburgh to Copenhagen return costing about £50. We could pop straight over to Sweden for a couple of days then have the second couple of days in Copenhagen. But why there? I may have previously mentioned parkrun in these blogs (https://www.parkrun.com/). This free weekly 5 km run/walk/jog is great but can become a bit of an obsession. We are not even close to the levels of obsession some people have though we do choose to wake up at 7am on Saturday mornings – we get up ... read more

We’re off to Scandinavia for a long weekend of parkruns. We booked it before I fell over in Poland and smashed my knee. It seemed like a much better idea when I had 2 working legs. But I reckon it’ll just about be manageable with the correct amount of painkillers and alcohol. The cheap tickets out of Stansted at stupid o’clock aren’t so cheap when you add fuel, an airport hotel, car parking and the taxi to the terminal. Security is high. They’ve invested in new scanning equipment (presumably something to do with Donald Trump’s arrival) and they’re determined to get their money’s worth. With my dodgy knee I can’t spread my legs wide enough to stand on the designated foot markings for the body scan, which means I need an old fashioned pat down (she ... read more

Bonjour à tous, Excellente journée, très agréable, et diversifiée. J'ai continué ma visite de Copenhague, ce matin, d'une manière assez peu conventionnelle. Avec mon problème de prune hier au soir, j'ai voulu, tenter de négocier, et pour cela j'ai chercher sur le net police Copenhague, J'ai relevé plusieurs adresses de ''commissariat'', et je m'y suis rendu. Les deux premiers je ne les ai jamais trouvé, le troisième, c'était la police criminelle. J'ai fini par demander à une auto patrouille, et ils m'ont répondu, ce que je pensais, c'est le service des parcmètres de la ville, et contact uniquement par téléphone. Là je suis pas capable. Mais mon ami Pierre Fradin me dit de laisser tomber, les français ont d'autres chats à fouettés. Donc avec tout ça et bien j'ai fait un joli tour de ville, des ... read more