Malmö; Monday, 13 April, 2015

Breakfast and checkout completed I wandered into town (or more staggered into the massive head wind blowing round the station) and, after a quick stop to look round Lilla Torg virtually deserted with all the restaurants not yet open for the day, headed over to the castle

The castle is part of the long history of warfare between the Danes and Swedes for control of Skåne, the area of land that is now Southern Sweden, but has passed backwards and forwards between the two countries many times over the course of history.

The current castle is an interesting mix of a 17th Century construction and a 1930’s build that combines historic Danish and modern Nordic with the 20th century element baring in places quite some resemblance to the Stockholm and Oslo town halls.

Inside the castle there are a number of museums and I spent quite a long time looking round the exhibitions before even reaching the rooms of the historic castle, where there is an excellent display charting the history of the wars to control Skåne in one of the Canon towers along with the kings chambers reconstructed as to how they would have been when he was in residence.

I stopped off in the very nice café in the castle complex to have a bite to eat before wandering back through the parks to the centre of town.

By now it was time to head back to the hotel and collect my luggage before hopping on a train back over the Øresund Bridge into Denmark and on to Copenhagen airport for my flight back home.

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