Trip to Europe, September 2015, Malmö, Copenhagen

Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden are connected by the Oresund bridge. You can drive or take a train. It takes about 35 minutes to get from the center of Malmo to the center of Copenhagen, and only 22 minutes to get from Malmo to the Copenhagen airport.

While at the Malmo train station we had an up-close encounter with the refugee/migrant problem that is the topic number 1 in Europe currently. There were volunteers/helpers (?) with signs in Arabic, a TV crew, and some refugees/migrants. Why do refugees prefer Sweden to Denmark?

These are not the trains that take you to Copenhagen.

This one is:

It seems Danes have a sense of humor and are not afraid to use expletives in public. These advertisements were all over Copenhagen:

The boat tours of the city start from here. The much cheaper ones take off from the right side of the canal.

Interesting architecture can be seen from the boat:

Fancy a courtyard with steps into the canal?

Next, back to Sweden...

Trip to Europe, September 2015, Ystad, Malmö

Driving from Ystad to Malmo is safer and faster thanks to cleverly designed 3 lane roads with a metal wire barrier. The number of lanes in one direction changes from 1 to 2 every few kilometers. This allows easy and safe overtaking of slower vehicles. This design is badly needed in Poland and elsewhere. It does not require much widening of existing country roads, but improves safety and comfort enormously.

Malmö, Sweden: this building reminds me of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Poland and Sweden were for a short time part of the same kingdom in late 16th century.

Hybrid buses disguised as articulated trams in Malmö.

Old advertisements on a building in the center of Malmö.

Next, a short trip to Copenhagen...