Malmo

Our Loft Apartment

Olivia and I arrived in Malmo at about 2:30pm but couldn’t check into the Fornom Aparhotel until 4pm.  We sat in the shade contemplating walking to the supermarket with all our gear – and decided to go ahead. We figured that it would discourage us from buying too much. We won’t have cooking facilities in our next place, so must run our supplies down. We still had plenty of rice and soy sauce from previous meals, so just needed something to go with it.

We opted for vegan meatballs. Sweden is famous for their meatballs and no trip to this part of the world would be complete without some.

Our room was very spacious – lots of room to rearrange our packs and wash some clothes. The double bed in on the second level, but the stairs leading to it looked deadly.  I chose to sleep on the couch – much safer.

The Distgusting Food Museum

After exploring various botanical gardens, canals and parks we headed to the https://disgustingfoodmuseum.com/. This is a great business model.  They have stories, examples or models of dangerous, disgusting or unusual foods from around the world all set up in one room. The entry price was high, 220 SEK for adults, but we managed students rates of 175 SEK.

For some reason Musk Sticks and Vegimite were included. Vegimite I can understand, but Musk Sticks? really!

When you have finished looking at the exhibits you get an opportunity to play disgusting food bingo.  If you can eat everything you get to spin the chocolate wheel and win a prize. Between us we did everything.  I ate all the foods available, from stink bugs to black ants and sauerfraut juice.  They were all out of Diving Beetles!

Olivia tasted all 5 levels of chilli sauces. Brave girl – I bailed after two. A heroic effort – but no prize for us.

Statues and Signs

A distinct feature of Malmo, well in fact Sweden in general, is the number of bronze statues and art works. We were able to track down most of them – some like the screaming frog were very tiny.

The Turning Torso

The Turning Torso (built 2005) is a futuristic residential building in Malmo.  At 190m, it was the tallest building in Nordic Region until 2022. It is quite dizzying to look at.

It was about 30-minute walk from our accommodation and near the beach. From here you can see Denmark and the 1999 Oresund Bridge connecting the two countries. Tomorro we will head back over the bridge to spend the last days of our trip in Copenhagen.

After clocking up thousands of steps, we retired to our room for a second round of rice and meatballs, and rest.