Lund Sweden

Today we started off with breakfast that is included in our hotel rate in the basement. Such an interesting room, it is actually a whole bunch of rooms with a very interesting design. I'm sure Andre will have pictures later. At first I thought we just had coffee/tea and a waffle maker. Then we found the goldmine, a buffet with many many selections. Eggs, bacon, sausage, meatballs, yogurt, fruit, cheeses, smoked salmon, pickled herring, cold meats and on and on. We will definitely not be bored after 4 mornings of breakfast here.

After breakfast we walked over to the train station, which is about a 5 minute walk from our hotel, and bought tickets to Lund, Sweden. I can't get my phone to work for purchasing tickets, so from now on we will need to go to the ticket machine, which we now know exactly where it is, easy.

Arrived in Lund at about 9:30AM, not too much going on yet. Lund is a University town, so we see quite a few students on bikes and moving around. We start our day touring around the beautiful University Campus. Lots of very pretty old buildings.

After we have finished at the University grounds we move on to the Botanical Gardens. Still lots of pretty things to see, much the same as we have at home. A very nice dahlia garden, some the same as we have at home, but some different.

Next we went on to the Lund Cathedral. One of the reasons we went here was to see the 15th century astronomical clock. There are about a dozen of these clocks left in Europe. On this clock you see the day of the week, where the sun is, the time, and where we are in the zodiac. At 11:45 a member of clergy came out and explained the clock to us in English then Swedish, then at 12:00 it chimes and different figures come out from behind doors on the clock. It only takes about a minute, and lots of people come to see this. It is so quick that after it is over someone that was working at the desk came and told us all that the show was over lol. We did visit the cathedral again later in the afternoon as once the clock chimed noon there was a service that was only in Swedish and we were asked not to walk around the cathedral until the service was over.

Next we went wandering the cobble stone streets in search of old houses. Lots of beautiful examples. We also found a little spot for some lunch, nothing traditional yet, but that will come one of these days.

Next off we went to the Kulturen open air museum. Lots of old historic houses and exhibitions are set up here. Many of the old houses have been relocated here from their original towns/cities so there would be examples all in one spot. We saw examples from very poor farmers homes, to more well to do politicians/businessmen/clergy homes. You could easily spend a couple of hours here if you like history and looking at old artifacts that have been found.

Back to Malmo by train around 5:30 and we stopped in the library room at our hotel for a coffee/tea which is always set up for us. This old hotel we are staying in is very beautiful, will give more details on another day with pictures that Andre will take.

We picked up sandwiches for supper in our room after a long day out, then after our supper headed out for a walk along the canals in a loop that brought us back to our hotel. We were hoping it would be a pretty walk, but we saw a few fisherman, lots of people out walking their dogs, and lots of apartments. Nothing too exciting, won't bother with that walk again.

Off to bed after another long day. Speaking of bed, like many other places in Europe we have a large queen size bed, with 2 single comforters. This is something I say we will do next time we buy new bedding, no fighting over blankets on blankets off....

28,230 steps

Looks like trains also get graffitied here also

I love old doors

 ("The Man Who Broke Out from the Rock") by artist Axel Ebbe 1918

Lund university main building from the late 1800s

The selected region shows the Valleberga Stone (DR 337), an 11th-century Viking Age runestone located on the Runestone Hill at Kulturen in Lund, Sweden.

Art exhibit in Lund

At Lund Botanical Garden

Many kinds of Dahlia still in bloom

Bee Condo

One of many stones from different ages. This one from 1200 million years ago

Giant Rhubarb  

The greenhouses were not open. A very nice display of many types of bleeding hearts 

Exploring Lund

A small street with well preserved homes

when 2 homes can't decide on a colour

Gretas Hemslöjd, a historic half-timbered handicraft shop located in Lund, Sweden

Founded in 1892, Kulturen is one of the oldest open-air museums in the world..  The site covers two city blocks and features historic houses, indoor exhibits, and gardens showcasing Swedish history from the Middle Ages to the 1930s.  We return later as we wanted to go to the next stop first.

Lund Cathedral.  Consecrated in 1145, making it one of the oldest and most famous medieval landmarks in the Nordic region.

famous 15th-century Lund astronomical clock. 

Upper Dial (Astronomical Face): Shows a medieval view of the universe with the Earth at the center. It displays the sun's position, the time of day, and lunar phases.
Lower Dial (Calendar Face): Features a perpetual calendar that spans from 1923 to 2123.
Automata: Twice a day, a mechanical parade of the Three Kings moves across the face of the clock

More walking around Lund

Many houses had roses and/or hollyhocks beds right outside their homes planted where a tile is removed

Nobody is driving thru this road barrier

Our lunch break from the middle east, we just wanted something cheap and fast. It was good

Tintin, had to go in

Returned to the Cathedral after their noon service was done

In the crypt

Saint Lawrence, the patron saint of Lund Cathedral.

bronze winged ox, representing the Evangelist symbol of Saint Luke, mounted on the famous seven-branched bronze candelabrum

Famous seven-branched bronze candelabrum from the 15th century, 3.5 meters high

At the historical village, a very small samples of the of homes