Day in Malmo - July 7, 2009

Tuesday was another great day, weather-wise and we decided to take advantage of it. Dennis wasn’t feeling too inspired about exploring Copenhagen, he had seen what he wanted to in 1980 and apparently the little mermaid is overrated anyway, so we hopped the train and headed back to Sweden. Even though we had gone to some very specific places and had accomplished what I had hoped we would, I was feeling disappointed that we hadn’t had more time to just soak up the ambience. Turns out that I’ve become very pro-Swedish since we came back (or so I’ve been told).

Malmo is only about ½ hour from Copenhagen by train so that’s how we spent our afternoon. One of the first things we saw was a four piece marching band artwork made out of steel - quite funny! Then we talked to a very informative man in a souvenir shop who drew all over a city map and told us about some sights we really should see. So we went through yet another Saint Peter’s church. Some interesting points about this one - the pulpit was resting on the shoulders of a statue of Peter (see the picture above) Was this a reference to Peter being the rock upon which the church would be built? Also there was a medieval side chapel with some subtle ceiling paintings.

We also saw a building with the craziest architecture ever - the floors were slightly offset so it looked twisted and almost leaning. There’s a river running through the center of the downtown core, quite the focal point. There were these water features flowing into the river and on the steps beside we saw statues of cats - they almost looked life-like, at first glance you didn’t realize they were statues.

We discovered a great cake shop and tried a few amazing cupcakes (along with a pretty decent cup of coffee). We needed another piece of carry-on luggage so the helpful man told us about a shop that had used to be next to him when he was located in the train station. We covered a lot of ground looking for it (even though we were talking about a ten block radius probably, just did it several times) but never found it. We even went to the tourist office in the train station to try to get an address but had no luck. Good thing we didn’t try to find the restaurant he highly recommended (which was apparently a little tricky to find). However, it was good of him to be so helpful and we did end up getting another bag, just not from his friend.