Jeff: The final part of Sweden

We spent a couple of hours in the morning walking around the nature park around the cider apple growing area before continuing south towards what Catherine described to me as, ‘The Stone Henge of Sweden’, otherwise known as Ales Stenar. It was a 1.5k walk from the car park towards the coast and consisted of a 1400 year old monument in the shape of a ship, made up of 59 large stones perched on a hill. The views on the coastline were lovely and was dotted with cattle. We found a spot nearby for the night.

Next morning we headed back to the city where we first fell in love with Sweden, that of course being Malmo. We parked in the same recreational park as before which is a good 16km out from the city but makes for lovely quiet surroundings and a nice cycle into the centre which we did the next morning. We stopped off and had breakfast at the same place as we had previously before exploring a few areas of the city we hadn’t the first time. We stumbled into a bizarre art exhibition which was meant to demonstrate the evolution of life on from the ocean, or something along those lines. We then headed for the old town which was pretty where we came across another museum which was about design and textiles in the city. Still full from breakfast we decided to head to the open air bath house which was previously our first experience of a Swedish bath house. We spent a good couple of hours cooking ourselves before plunging into the sea which was considerably cooler than before!

We then went for lunch at a place that we wished we went to for breakfast as it not only had French toast but it did an amazing scrambled tofu breakfast that we were fighting over. We decided to make our way back checking out a couple of shops on the way as we wanted to stock up on our favourite Swedish chocolates (Delicatobolls) which are surprisingly vegan. This is our last night in Sweden as we are planning on heading over to Denmark tomorrow which will be sad but its been great to visit as much of Sweden as we have managed and we look forward to what Denmark brings.