Saturday - wandering, modern art, good meals, moving on

Saturday was a slower tempo than most, with a wander around Malmö, which ended up a bit more wandering than planned as I missed the modern art museum by that much and ended up on a circuit of very boring apartment buildings. Finally my data connection came on again and it was Google to the rescue. I had been relying on a printed tourist map that had an illustration of the museum so big it obscured exactly which street it was on. It wouldn't hurt them to put up a few signs either.

Some early 17th century half-timbered buildings in Malmö

From outside David's Patisserie, 18th century church steeple on left

It was Swedish National Day, with carriage rides in the main square and a concert, which included folk singing and some girls in blue and yellow waving scarves in the air.

An early 2oth century Swedish painter and a few video installations later, I found my way to a great patisserie, 'David's,' at which I had a smoked salmon baguette sandwich, but pretty much the most perfect fruit tart I have ever had, with plump, flawless mulberries, crisp shell and a dash of meringue.

Considerably cheered by this repast, I wandered a bit more and then caught the train to Göteborg (Gothenburg.) For an extra $4 or so I could travel 1st class and have free tea or coffee, fruit or little packaged chocolate brownie. Apart from mildly scalding my arm on the tea - the water was super-heated and the cup a bit flimsy, the trip went well as the phlegmy gentleman was drowned out by my noise-cancelling headphones playing YoYo Ma.

The hotel room is very nice, tucked up under the roof again. The amplified bands playing on the street half a block away stopped after I fell asleep and I have hopes of a nice quiet stay from now on.

Göteborg's Garden Society park is beautiful - the azaleas were out

The palm house at Garden Society of Göteborg, modelled on London's Crystal Palace, albeit on a smaller scale.