Kalmar; Thursday, 21 July, 2022

I had a very good, if short, night sleep and woke up just before 10am in time to head down to the restaurant for a quick breakfast before checking out of the hotel and heading over to the airport station to catch the train onto Kalmar.

Kalmar sits on the end of the Øresundståg service from Copenhagen over the Øresund Bridge to Sweden, so I could make the full journey on the one train, though it wasn’t the quickest taking nearly 3 ½ hours to make the journey. It did mean that I arrive at Kalmar just in time for checkin at my hotel there so I was able to drop my bags in my room straight away, grab some afternoon Fika (a Swedish afternoon Coffee and Cake tradition) that the hotel offers as part of the nightly rate, and head off into town to go sightseeing.

I spent several hours wandering round the city taking in the many sights – including the impressive castle as well as the numerous other fortifications across the city and getting my bearings for where the main things I wanted to visit the following day were located.

I finished off by walking along the top of the city walls back to the hotel where I was in time to catch the end of the included Evening meal before finishing off with coffee and a beer on the deck/balcony in my room that overlooked the harbour.