Sweden & Oresund Bridge - Day 5- November 23rd

Day 5

After a nice breakfast in the hotel we got ready and decided to walk off in the direction of the Bridge and the Hyllievang shopping complex and Malmo Arena. Soon after leaving the hotel we were at the magnificent new Malmo FC football ground.  Staggering that the old stadium has been maintained in place while the new one has been built.  The old stadium, just as imposing, is now used for lower league football.

The Old Malmo FC Stadium

The new Swedbank Stadium, home of Malmo FC

After a while walking and following a very small map we decided to ask a lady walking our way. Sure enough we were going in the wrong direction but after her pointing out various places on our map we were fine.and after walking about five miles we finally arrived at Hyllievang.

Some unusual sculptures in Hyllievang

We had a look around and spent some time in the shopping complex where I bought quite a few Christmas presents before we called a taxi to take us back to the hotel, but not before heading to a perfect spot to photograph the bridge.  Unfortunately our taxi driver was the only guy in Malmo who did not understand a word of English and as usual we were ashamed at our lack of knowledge of the local language.  The only words he understood were the name of our hotel so he took us straight back there to it.

We then got our car out of the car park and drove back to Hyllievang and worked out a route to the bridge.  We followed our intuition and our little map and seemed to be doing OK until we appeared to be going down a lane getting narrower as we drove down it,  we eventually got out onto a main road and an elderly roadworker stopped us and asked where were we going.  when we said 'to the bridge. how do we get there?' he said in perfect English, 'not through the park'

Once again, we were amazed at how people everywhere speak our language, not to mention how silly we felt having driven through a children's play area but we were soon on our way. His directions were great and we were soon as close to the bridge as we could get. At the risk of boring you there are a series of shots of the bridge following, all taken from Sweden: -

Me on the Swedish side of the bridge

We were fortunate to be able to pass under the bridge and watch the trains crossing above us. Unfortunately the tunnel is not visible from this side of the bridge but we will be crossing to Copenhagen tomorrow so should be able to get some shots of that, but here's an image I got online to show you what lies ahead for us.

The road disappearing down the Oresund tunnel

Back to the hotel for the evening and same as yesterday.  Kevin in the Sauna and me in the room doing my blog.  Then later on going down to the restaurant for our evening meal which was, once again, first class.  After a few drinks it was off to our room to watch some European soccer on TV before packing ready to leave tomorrow.  we will be spending most of the day in Copenhagen before returning to Heidenau in Germany for our next night's stay.