Hi all,

Well, today was the first full day i had in Malmo, and it is a very picturesque city indeed. It is also good to be around the sea again, as for the last 2 months i have been inland and so haven?t seen it, so the water here makes quite a nice change. However, the weather here is much colder (only about 7 degrees today, but it isn?t so cold you have to put about 3 jumpers on just to go outside, and the weather itself is actually perfect (barely a cloud in the sky today, although it always seems to be windy here)
I began by walking into the city centre here, which effectively has an inlet running through it, with the Central train station on one side and the remainder of the city on the other. I followed that a while and checked out the local shopping centres and gathering places, before heading back past the central station toward the ?Turning Torso? which is the most famous building in Malmo. This is a building built only recently, but which effectively rotates 90 degrees on itself between its base and its highest point. This means that all the rooms cant possibly be square, although i wasn?t able to check out the inside as it is now just office space. From there i was able to walk toward the Oresund Bridge which connects Denmark and Sweden (miles away though from Turning Torso) through a virtually empty barren park with the waves crashing up against the shore-it reminded me a lot of the West Coast actually, as there was flotsam everywhere and it was blowing a gale.

After walking through there a while i went back from the way i came and went to the Malmohues Museum, the main museum in Malmo, which for some reason was holding an exhibition from the Nelson Mandela Museum in South Africa (apparently this is the first time it has ever been outside of South Africa, but why they would choose Malmo of all places i don?t know). This was really interesting and educational, but it seemed strange to be learning all about Mandela in Sweden!!

Well, i better get some rest, because tomorrow i am probably heading to Copenhagen-different country, but only 20 minutes by train from here!