Europe 2023, August 30

A second run at Amager Faelled park with a slightly different route. It's amazing in the early morning when you enter the park and the temperature immediately drops like five degrees.

I walked up to the central station after breakfast to buy a ticket for Malmo - trains leave about every 20 minutes. It actually works out much better buying at the station instead of online, since you don't have to pick a train just the date and the destination station. It cost about $40 for a return ticket to Malmo, about 45 minutes each way via the airport.

I arrived at central station not far from the city centre, containing:

• Stortorget - main square with town hall building
• Lilla Torget - smaller square with some nice old fashioned buildings
• Sodergatan - main shopping street, very empty on a Wednesday morning at 11am
• Gustav Adolfs torg - another square next to Sodergatan
• Gamla Kyrkogarden - the old cemetery
• Kungsparken - the park along the river
• Castle Gardens windmill - the gardens surrounding the castle and moat

Crossing over the moat was Malmo Castle, which contains Malmo Museum. I expected the castle itself would be the best bit, but after finally getting to those rooms at the end of the visit it was quite uninteresting.

The museum started with a few art exhibitions, I thought the modern stuff was very good, all the old portraits of people from like the 1600s was boring. There was also an impressive concert hall room on the same level. Down at the bottom strangely there was also a small aquarium as an unexpected bonus, and a bit of a natural history section with replica animals.

There was much more than I expected in total, only to realise the combo ticket also gives you access to the technology and maritime museum across the road. It looked like most people didn't even know about this place as it was very quiet.

The technology / transport half was much better than the maritime, which was just about old ships. The transport section included a small submarine you could walk through. I could barely make it through the small round hatches - not helped by weeks of walking, I could barely bend my back and legs enough to squeeze through. There was also various other cars and light planes, and a section with Swedish inventions - excluding Ikea.

On the top level there was a sort of interactive games room, but I was the only person on the whole level for the whole time I was there. It has some fun interactive science kind of demonstrations, as well as some skill challenges, a shame nobody was making use of it. Most of the puzzle games felt like they had been taken straight out of seasons of Survivor or The Challenge.

With the two museums combined I spent much longer that expected, so it was already 2pm before I even had a chance for lunch and to rest my legs.

After lunch I searched around for a magnet, I thought Sweden (yet another currency) might be a bit cheaper than Denmark but not according to the souvenirs. As per usual my left foot was the most sore so I had to compromise and only walked half way to the Turning Torso building, the final item on my checklist. As a bonus though I got to see a couple of lighthouses on the way.

That it was for the quick visit to Sweden and it was back on the train into Copenhagen to finish the day.