Well, actually...

apparantly I do have time to blog seeing as I'm stuck in the train station in Malmo as although the trains to Gothenburg were SUPPOSSED to be every hour, the next one I can get on isn't until 15:08 and even that is without a guaranteed seat. Namely, it's entirely possible I could be standing for THREE HOURS! And so I thought I would book my train to Oslo while I'm here but apparantly part of the line is down so I have to get a bus (aaaarrrrgggghhh, I dread getting buses because you never know where you are and might miss the stop... oh no :-( ) and change to a train later on. *sigh* typical, huh? Anyway so things that have been going down... well I think I forgot to tell you all about these scrumptious fillo pastry twists covered in poppy and sesame seeds that I had for breakfast everyday in Denmark because it wasn't included and they were just so good! And I'm still losing weight would you believe? Travelling is miraculous! Anyway, lol I had a pretty good time in Malmö, it's quite a cool city. Umm...cool ethnic market, Sweden's tallest building the Turning Torso which was quite cool but my feet didn't appreciate the treck all the way out to the industrial part of the city to see it but nevermind, Sweden's oldest Renaissnce castle and some other stuff besides. Hostel was really amusing - had it's own sauna, a guitar to play if you wanted to serenade the other guests and amusingly a basket of knitting to help you relax. That seemed to have been quite popular actually and it resulted in a mass that might have been part way towards beeing a very large sock but with a handle and some bobbles etc. lmao. Apparantly knitting is something Swedish people like to do I guess! Bonded with a couple of Italian girls in my dorm over being so tired then woken up at 0:30 by a woman who came in and turned all the lights on and started rummaging around! Thank god for ear plugs and filthy looks lol! Anyway, next day onto Ystad. When I got to the tourist office I first asked about going to Ales Stenar the next day -seeing as the bus only goes each way twice a day- and then asked for directions to my hostel as I couldn't see it on the map. "Ah" she goes. "That's because it's not actually in the town." WHAT???" OMG no wonder it had space!!! Thankfully 'twas only about a kilometre and a half though let me tell you that's no joke with all my stuff but anyway it was pretty, walking along these foot paths right beside the sea with all the birds nesting there - a few little cygnets amongst them. And then when I got there about 14:00 and the reception was closed with no where to leave my stuff until 16:00, I'm not going to lie to you I just went and sat on the beach and pretended like it wasn't freezing with my strawberry and white magnum (which I've only just discovered but are wonderful! mmm...). Anyway, next day got up insanely early so as to be sure I didn't miss the first bus to Kaseberga and when I arrived there I saw that I had been foolish wondering which Kaseberga stop to get off at. If I tell you that Kaseberga's population is 150, will you get what I mean? Anyway I set off up the hill to find Ales Stenar and was thinking how nice it was on this little path high up surrounded by fields and then I realised that to get to Ales Stenar I was actually going to have to walk through a field. Indeed, I made friends with a couple of curious cows and actually from the cow pats up there I imagine the animals are allowed to wander pretty much as they please throught this ancient monument. Ales Stenar when I got there was cool -a bit like Stonehenge but in the shape of a ship and directly overlooking the sea. I stayed enjoying the peace and quiet and did a little yoga (well, why not?) until 10:30 or so when the tourists began to arrive and then wandered down to go and have a look around the village. Well, I kid you not, I walked the entire length of every single road in Kaseberga, wandered down to the harbour and sat watching the fishermen for a bit and I kid you not I was still done by 12:00 and had to hang around for another hour for the bus by which time I was like "get me out of here!" even though it was very cute so I definitely know I'm still a city girl! As such can you imagine how excited I am to be going to Gothenburg which is, I believe, Sweden's second largest city? Then onto Oslo and Bergen before back across to Stockholm and then Finland.