the third largest city in sweden, Malmö was once an industrial town. now, it's becoming quite the metropolis; having built a really huge bridge that connects it with copenhagen, as well as the largest building in scandanavia - the turning torso.
so we (mike, kelsa, alex, and myself) headed off to Malmö to see what's up with number three.
after a 2.5 hour train/bus ride, we arrived in the city center and started our foot tour - which would take us around the old town, to the modern art museum, to a toy museum, some organic gardens, and then to the beach that looks upon denmark. all of the mentioned were seen and great - minus the toy museum which we didn't even pay to enter because it looked more like a flea market than something worthwhile (i was kinda really disappointed, cause i love toys. i wish they would have tried harder.)
i had read that Malmö was a "hidden green city" - meaning it was pretty organic, lots of visible green energy, and garden roof tops. i didn't really see much of any of that. okay, i did see one garden roof - on a boat house - and the buses run on biofuel. but, i was really expecting more. maybe we just missed it.
luckily, the day couldn't be ruined because the weather was so lovely. even the beach / bath house we went to visit was still nice. and the water was surprisingly warmer than any swedish body of water we had touched so far, and quite clear. (we didn't go swimming cause it really wasn't THAT warm, and the bathhouse was gender separated - boo hoo - so no fun there).
exhausted again, we headed back to our solgarden for a quiet maglehem evening.
cousin! your adventures seem crazy awesome. i'm sure you'll have lots of stories for are next annual (or bi-annual maybe?) cousinly meet ups. anyways, you've inspired me to start a blog to keep up with friends (aka not have to write 100 emails.) gtlad your my blood relative.-ash
ReplyDelete