October Malmo Sweden 2 of 2

So we walked a few more blocks from the castle and catch our first glimpse of the Turning Torso. It is the tallest structure in Scandinavia, and had to be built to withstand the winters and coastal winds. We were there on a fairly cold day, just about freezing. You could see in the design of everything here that it was made to endure, able to batten down the hatches to protect from the elements. Than of course there is the Torso which by design gets spanked by the elements constantly.There was a great beachfront park. You can see the Sontbrug, which is the bridge we took across to Malmo. So just a few years ago, everything you see here was just dirt. This wonderful marina and housing complex was very cool. None of this was really open unfortunately, this is more of a summer area of Malmo.

 Here are some shots of the Torso. I watched a show on Discovery on how they built this thing. It is entirely residential, though the area around its base had doctors, shopping, dentist, etc. I will let the photos speak for themselves here.

Here Saviya does here best impression of the Wizard of Oz greeting his guests at his front doors. “Who rang that bell?”

   

We hopped a bus back into Malmo for some dinner. We opted for TGI Fridays entirely because of the craving for some crap American food, in this case Mozzarella sticks! Yum! Sweden, like Denmark is very expensive. TGI Fridays cost us about $100 US for dinner!

So we hopped on the train back to Copenhagen for the night. When we purchased the tickets in Copenhagen I mistakenly didn't get a round trip ticket. We hopped onboard the train, and sure enough, BUSTED! But they are so nice in Europe, they just give you a bit of grief, than make you buy a ticket…So our first attempt for a freebie ride on a train was thwarted…so we try not to do that, the next time may not be so Swedish!