Day 4: Malmö-Jönköping The Swedish language is a source of continuing fascination. First, there’s no point in trying to pronounce any word you see according to English rules and expecting to be understood. There are many words that can be worked out from Germanic roots, but it sounds unlike any other language we have heard. The Swedes, whom we continually ask for directions, are all able to communicate with us in English, which puts us single-language people to shame. We left Malmö on a foggy morning, driving nervously northwards, on the right in a left-hand drive car for the first time in fourteen years. We were heading for Jönköping (pronounced Yern-sher-ping), situated at one end of a 128 km-long lake, and navigating really well until we were approaching the town and took a wrong turn. That
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