This weekend, our friend, Thomas, from Norway came to visit. It was great to catch up and we also got to take him on some of our favorite sightseeing trips.
We started by taking the Malmö boat tour. Kristine had taken the tour with her friend Sarah, when she visited but I'd been working, so this was a first for me also.
The tour started outside Central Station and took us out into the Oresund where Kockums had originally built ships and submarines and then back down some of the rivers in Malmö. Kris said they did a bit extra when she did the tour - but that was in summer so it may have been a slightly different tour.
It gave me another view of a city I'd be starting to take for granted and was a fun day out with Thomas and the family.
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| Our Boat |
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| Starting - Looking towards Mälarbron |
The three big buildings in the distance are Malmö Live - and event centre that was built in August 2015 (just before we arrived)
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| Looking out at Malmö University and the boats that serve as restaurants in Hamnen (The Harbour) |
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| The Malmö Royal Post building - built in 1900. |
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| The Turning Torso |
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| Klaffbron - a lifting (flap) bridge originally the entrance to the Kockums Shipyard |
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| Malmö Live |
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| River around Kungsparken and Malmö Hus |
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| Kungsparken |
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| A friend who joined us |
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| The Malmö Building of Massive entertainment |
We finished the day with a walk around Vastra Hamnen and then headed back home.
The next day we headed into Copenhagen to do our usually walking tour - Kastellet, Lille Havfrue, Amalienborg Palace and then past Nyhavn and down Strøget towards Tivoli. This time, we also took a side detour to Rosenborg Palace - the castle we kept missing on all of our visits.
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| On the train to Copenhagen |
When we first arrived, we had walked down to Kungens Nytorv (The King's New Square) but it had been blocked off for a new construction - it was still a work in progress now, almost 2 years later. The reason became clear when we saw one of the workers:
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| A worker |
Rosenborg was a pretty impressive palace -
It was built as a summerhouse in 1606 for King Christian IV. It was rarely used a royal residence after 1710 - only after Christianborg Palace burned down in 1794 and then again when Copenhagen was attacked by the British in 1801.
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| Rosenborg Palace - see if you can tell the difference between the spherical rocks and Cam's head. |
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| Our Lille Havfrue |
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| Rosenborg Palace |
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| The 'Normal' Lion as the kids called it. |
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| Because the kids named this one the "Derpy Lion" |
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| Derrrp |
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| Rosenborg |
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| Kamp Med En Slange (Fight with a Snake), by Thomas Brock, 1881 |
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| The horse equivalent of ARRRRGH! |
Tom had his own battle with the snake:
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| Tomas vs the snake |
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