The one day trip to Malmö, Sweden - The morning of the 20th of June 2012

We took an early train from Copenhagen Central Station, that would just take about half an hour to Malmo.

Upon reaching Malmo and as we left the Train Station towards the Old Post Office Square we sighted some rather old buildings, which we would later find out to be the Old Post office and the Malmo Hogskola.

After having crossed the bridge over the little canal we walked straight into the heart of the city, the Stortorget (The main Square) with the imposing equestrian statue of King Karl X Gustav, who is acclaimed as having liberated Skäne from Denmark through the Roskilde Treaty of 1658.

On the left hand side a late Gothic style building, the City Hal,l originally built in 1546, though we had read that it has sustained several changes since then.

Nevertheless we couldn't but be impressed by the Square ... there was something rather special about it, that I couldn't immediately signal out.

As we were walking out of into a pedestrian street we came across some little bronze figures (named "The Optimistic Orchestra" sculpted by the young Yngve Lundell), which I would later realise had been made as a  tribute to Lech Walesa and Martin Luther King.

Somewhere along that pedestrian street, whose shops were still closed (we hadn't thought about it being still fairly early in the morning) we turned right into  the Lila Torg Square said to have initially been built in 1592 as a market Square, where some of the oldest half-timbered houses, some of which dating back to the sixteenth century, are still to be found.

A little bit further on we walked into a fairly big Square, Gustav Adolfs Torg, with a fountain on it, where some ducks were calmly swimming ... a circular statue with Grippen, Malmo's coat of Arms and some stalls selling flowers ... slightly to the right there seemed to be a garden which we would later realise it was a cemetery  within the city centre.

(to be continued)