Thursday 18 November 2010

Sverige /Lund + Malmö/

Lund, located in southern Sweden, is a university town. Half (or even more) of the population is students so I can imagine it being really quiet during summer.

To be honest, there is not much to see in Lund. If it wasn’t for Gary’s friend 
Lund's city library
who's doing his PhD there, we probably won’t bother to make the 5-hour train journey from Stockholm. Interestingly, the nearest (proper) airport to Lund is Copenhagen. I guess a lot of people see Lund as some sort of a stopover between CPH and Stockholm, just like us.

The only time it rained during our 3-week journey was in Lund. Other than that, we had really wonderful weather every day.

 
Lund Cathedral
On our last night in Swedish soil, we went to Malmö (about 20 mins by train from Lund) for some uni event – a Balkan Music Night. Basically an excuse for live bands and cheap(er) booze. It was a bit wild. Since everybody there was uni students, we felt completely over-aged and out of place! HAHA… uni seems such a distant concept to us! We hang out until 2-3 ish and that was our first late night during the whole trip (more to follow in CPH =.= )
I wish I could see Malmö properly. After all, it's the third biggest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg. Heard it's meant to be famous for some constructions and shopping! Now my impression of Malmö was some Iraqi driving school and middle eastern carpet repair centre. It's kinda vague after all the alcohol consumption!!

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