Having managed to drag ourselves away from Kalmar, we headed for our last stop in Sweden, Malmö. We knew little about Malmö apart from it being where our friend Jessica grew up.

Karl X Gustav Staty, Malmö, Sweden

We arrived late in the afternoon, just before the daylight gave way to the evening. As we had arrived a little later than planned, we took a quick cursory look around the city in the campervan. The architecture was varied and spectacular. We decided that we would stay for the night.  Against all of our usual practices, we decided to get a take away and eat it in the van before finding somewhere to settle down for the evening. So we found a spot not far from the main square outside Malmö Castle. It looked really cool at night, lit from the outside. However, we quickly noticed that there seemed to be people inside the castle, which we were aware, was also a museum. However, as we watched we realised that there were not real people, but complaex images being projected on to the inside of the windows. They were obviously portraying scenes from history. It was fun as well as being a little violent and gruesome, including once of the characters being beheaded. I think that the weirdest part was that there were people walking past the castle taking no notice of the display as if we were the only ones that could see it!

It was a Friday night, so the place was busy with people going from bar to restaurants and vice-versa. The laughter and conversation between groups of friends was a fabulous soundtrack to the city. As we were tired we decided to pick our stopover location as soon as we were done with our takeaway dinner. We found that there were many locations that were fine with camper vans during the day, but most of them forbid sleeping in a vehicle overnight. However, we finally found what we though we be a good location next to a park, not far from the centre of the city.

Although the setting was perfect, we had obviously chosen the most common route for party-goers between their homes and parties. The drunken and noisy passersby made sure that we had we had quite a disturbed night’s sleep. Not a problem as we had only intended to stay for one evening.

Ribersborgsstranden, Malmö, Sweden

The following morning we were early to rise and have a quick breakfast before we decided to head towards the beach looking towards the building rising from the centre of the city. Even though it was very quiet, many people were bathing in the waters and playing int he sand with children. There were a few cyclists and runners making the most of the clement weather and good pathways to wind along the coast. From our beachside vantage point we could see the road bridge joining Malmö, Sweden to Copenhagen, Denmark. It was mighty impressive as the far end of the bridge disappeared into the morning fog.

Malmö to Copenhagen bridge, Malmö, Sweden

Having spent a while enjoying the beach and the edge of the city, we decided that we were ready to go and explore the last big city of our Scandinavian journey, Copenhagen.