The workshop continued today. I was much more tired than yesterday, which was actually surprisingly OK. But today I had to fight to stay away, which meant I could not concentrate 100% on the workshop.
Afterwards we went to Kulturen Östarp. It is an old farm from 16th century, and a restaurant. The food was really good.
I am doing a short visit to Sweden for business. The whole day was workshop and tomorrow will be the same. But tonight I had a chance to see Andreas (who lived in Tokyo for 2 years) and his wife (Stina).
They showed me their new house – a huge one. And then we had dinner at Brunnsgatan. Yummy!
Rented a car today and drove around Malmö. Actually I was reading the map and did no driving the whole day. We passed through Falsterbo, stopped in Skanör and drove to the most southern tip of Sweden in Smygehuk.
Then we continued to Ystad where everything was closed except Max hamburgers, where had lunch. Then we drove back to Malmö and passed through Rosengård where Zlatan grew up.
Once back at the hotel Robert and I went to the basement for some weight training and sauna. Then some dinner and relaxing before going to bed.
So I am in Sweden on a business trip and will stay over the weekend. What to do when you are “trapped” in Malmö over a weekend?
Well, you take the train (30 minutes or so) to Copenhagen. And end up in central Copenhagen just in front of Tivoli and 5 minutes walk from StrØget. So we did – me, mother and Robert.
We arrived in Copenhagen around 11 am and walked along StrØget to Nyhavn where, I think, my grandfather grew up. And continued the walk to Kastellet to have a look at the Lille Havefrun (little mermaid), but she was on vacation at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai 🙁 But we got a live feed so we could have a look anyway, and there were always the souvenirs 😉
From Kastellet we took a ferry over to Holmen and walked to Christiania. The free haven for hippies and druggies. It was a bit trashy, and though I thought they were not allowed to sell drugs there anymore they still sold hashish in the open.
Instead of buying hashish we quickly hurried out and found a restaurant where we could have some smØrrebØd
We walked around for a while more in beautiful Copenhagen before we took the train back to Malmö, where we had dinner at the hotel again. This night it was chocolate mouse… for desert 🙂
Was at the office in Lund already at 8 am. Did not have time for almost anything else but meetings today. I had a plan to leave early after my last meeting at 1 pm. But I met some old friends from Tokyo that have returned to Sweden, and an important contact for one of the projects that my group is involved in.
I was 1.5 hours late when I got on the 169 bus from Lund to Malmö. It took 30 minutes or so until we landed at the Concert Hall in Malmö, just 10 minutes walk from the hotel.
Once I met with my mother and my brother Robert we went out for a very late lunch. And some window shopping.
We also had a walk in KungsträdgÃ¥rden (a garden) because my mother wanted to see the Japanese garden. It was… Bamboo and rocks. I don’t really know what was so Japanese about it but a sign said that the intention was that the rocks symbolized water, which is important in Japanese culture. Well, it is a land of islands so water may be important, but what has it to do with being Japanese?
I am probably too stupid to understand the point with the Japanese garden having something to do with Japan (now I want comments saying “NO, NO, NO, you are not too stupid”).
In the evening we had dinner at the hotel and then Robert and I went to the gym in the basement. Did a light workout and spent some time in the sauna.