my trip to Malmö, Sweden

Just 4hours of sleep in Copenhagen hotel and moi is up and ready to go to Malmö, Sweden and visit Tom's family.
The good thing is: The Train station is just 5mins way from the hotel so i have no problem of losing my way.
Inside the train station~
The ticket cost like 60 Danish kroner/one way.
It's not a problem if you don't speak Danish. In fact, majority of the Danish do speak English.
The train crossing over from Copenhagen, Denmark to Malmö, Sweden over the Öresund bridge. The journey takes less than 35mins.

Reminds me of the song "Bridge over troubled water"

Moi alighted at the Malmö SYD SVÅGERTORP stop, just a stop before Malmö Central.The sight that greet moi when i got off the train.

Tom's family was already on the way to pick me up from the train station. At the point in time, moi was still feeling jittery about imposing on his family. However, my initial skepticism quickly worn off as all his family members gave me a huge hug and a warm welcome.

First stop: To the Beach!

With Tom's sista, Lucy and his mommy.Tom's mom mentioned that it's a family tradition to have an ice-cream when at the beach.
(Not that i'm complaining!!) heehee
So each of us have a soft serve~ Super duper delicious
The most famous building in Malmö is probably the Turning torso. (At the background)
From wikipedia: Turning Torso is a skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden , located on the Swedish side of the Öresund strait. It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on 27 August 2005. The Twisting Torso sculpture is a white marble piece based on the form of a twisting human being.After the nice ice-cream and the nice walk along the coast of the beach, it's time to head to the house.

Dinner consist of bread, sausages, smoked salmon, roast beef, ham etc. Easy and fast to prepare. In fact, Tom's mommy told me that all these are bought from the supermarket and are ready cooked.

It probably takes like just 15mins to whip up the feast.
And lemme tell you, it was really really good. I think i ate the most at the table. KEKEAfter dinner, we head to the living room where Tom's mommy placed a tray of Swedish sweets.
The Chokladboll was super good. I had like 4 of that during my stay there.
Tom was so jealous when i told him that.
I'ts his favourite!
He told me when he was young, his mom would just allow him one Chokladball each time. So what he did was, he went to the fridge and quickly stuffed one into his mouth and then pretend to hold another one in his fingers so his mom would think that he just had one.. So sneaky~
But you gotto hand it to him.

Tom's mommy told me that the rectangle sweet with a green strip in the middle is call a vacuum cleaner in swedish. Haha, i know it's funny...i mean why called it a vacuum cleaner?
One thing about summer in Europe is that the sun rises at 3am and go down at 11pm. That's like almost 20hours of sunlight a day.
~incredulous~

The next day, Lucy and i went down to Malmo central.
I think Sweden was experiencing a sudden heatwave over that couple of days because it was like 30degrees when i was there.
In fact, i almost feel like i'm back in Singapore.
(I mean not quite, cos it's not as humid as Singapore.)
I just had to visit H&M shop. (Why don't H&M come to Singapore?)
Bought a couple of tops that's just perfect for the beach.
BTW, if you people are complaining about the increase of the Singapore Goods & Service tax from 5% to 7%, then the sales tax in Sweden is gonna knock your socks off!
25%!!!!!

nice building structure

Tom's parents came to pick us up from the city and brought us to the park.
I told you, it's really HOT!!

In fact, we saw half nekkid guys walking around the city area and women in bikinis cycling around....

Beautiful flowers in bloom

I must have look really silly to Lucy when i pointed at these fluffy creatures and shouted
"Ohhh, LOOK!!!! cute little baby Duckies!!!!"
"These are baby geese" Lucy said.

Ermm, ducks and geese? Are they different?
Omigosh...did i just ask that bimbo question?? *faint*Lucy then point towards the "REAL" duckies
Aint ducks suppose to be ugly and dull in appearance?
READ: UGLY DUCKLING!!!
These ducks are so beautiful, with many shades of green, white, blue and brown.
Im confused @-@I guess that the trouble when you grow up in a city-kinda environment, like Singapore. You hardly get in touch with the natural environment, where animals just roam around in the wild, or take a walk in the park, have a picnic in the park and stuff.

Worse of all, you can't even differentiate a goose from a duck?
Geez, i might as well just bash my head against the wall. -_-

Behind their house is a garden which is lovingly tend by his parents. My favourite is probably the raspberries bushes.

I made a mistake of thinking they were mini strawberries. But they were not.
Looks alot like strawberries though

Tommy's mommy plucked a bowl of raspberries for me...
Awwww~ im so touched
Tom's parents went to the market and bought a bag of new potatoes and some dill for dinner. The "new potatoes" as mentioned by Tom's mommy are only available during the summer time. The potato's skin is very thin and delicate and the flesh is particularly flavorful.
Even i can tell the difference! It was so good that Tommy's mommy helped moi bought a bag of potatoes to bring back to Singapore.

I was such a glutton and moi forgot to take some pictures of the food (and the new potatoes) that Tommy's mommy prepared.

After two wonderful days in Malmo, sadly..it was time for me to head back to Copenhagen.
i'll be back soon...in fact, come july, Tom and myself will be heading up to Sweden for almost 2weeks! And to attend his brother's wedding.

I could hardly wait!