Rock on Sweden!

Svendborg (Denmark) to Malmö (Sweden)

We drove back to Copenhagen Airport to return our rental car, stopping along the way to visit Egeskov Castle. 

From Copenhagen airport we bought train tickets to Malmö in Sweden, just 25 minutes away. The train was delayed and the people were building up on the platform, so as we had a lot of luggage we decided that we'd be “smart” and wait for the next train. Of course that train was also delayed so the numbers just grew again. 

When a train finally arrived we hopped on, but strangely very few others did. While we were discussing with other confused passengers what was going on, the train started moving - no turning back now. We learnt that we were only supposed to board if we had a reservation (which we didn't). When the conductor came by we owned up to our error, she agreed that we'd made a mistake, shrugged her shoulders and said "there's nothing we can do about it now", and walked on. So in retrospect, it wasn't really a mistake from our perspective!

We relaxed for the rest of the short trip, as we had a comfortable, uncrowded ride across the famous Denmark-Sweden bridge that had featured in the show “The Bridge" that we had really enjoyed.

After checking in to our hotel in Malmö we went for a walk and discovered that we were staying in town during the Malmö Festival. The streets were packed, there were carnival rides and hordes of teenagers wandering around. 

Not ideal as far as K was concerned, but M was very pleased to see that there was a stage set up where some quite interesting Swedish rock bands were playing, this festival might not be so bad after all!