For my final post on Malmö, I want to share a photo essay from my brief visit. This is a city I hope to return to and take my family along. Malmö Photo Essay Malmö made headlines for its...
For my final post on Malmö, I want to share a photo essay from my brief visit. This is a city I hope to return to and take my family along.
Malmö Photo Essay
Malmö made headlines for its “crime wave” during the pandemic, mostly involving rival gangs. That said, the city is incredibly safe and far safer than most major US cities statistically. Even in the “most dangerous” Scandianivcan city, you’re still quite safe.
In addition to an efficient rail system that took us swiftly across “The Sound” (Øresund in Danish or Öresund in Swedish), we used scooters to get around town. It was first time ever using one and I loved them – how easy to hop on and hop off. While these may not be practical in Los Angeles, they were very efficient here (and a day pass from Voi cost only about 79 crowns or about 8USD).
The city is also very walkable, with a beautiful town square. There’s no trash on the ground and every building was whll-mantined. No graffiti or homeless people either.
I shared about the great coffee I enjoyed, but one of my favorite activities was going to MAXI Stormarknad (hypermarket). I love to go grocery shopping in foreign lands and this was a great cultural experience (with my friend, who is Swedish, pointing out many local and Swedish specialties).
While I did not buy anything, we also stopped at Systembolaget, the state-run liquor chain store in Sweden. The selection was amazing…there was even Blanton’s Bourbon from Kentucky (my personal favorite).
Negroni coming up!
We took the scooter over to the Ribersborgs Kallbadhus (Kallis), which was closed for the season, but is a bathhouse that was first opened in 1898 and includes:
five saunas two sea water pools two wood-fired hot tubs a sun deck
I hope to return next time to this.
The Turning Torso building is the iconic neo-futurist residential skyscraper built in 2005. It was the tallest building in the Nordic region until 2022 when the Karlatornet in Gothenburg surpassed it.
CONCLUSION
I enjoyed my time in Malmö and view it as a very livable city. I realize that Sweden lives under the NATO defense umbrella without having to cough up sizable amounts of its GDP toward defense spending, but I really think this city and country gets it priorities right in so many ways. Excellent healthcare, good transport, superb education, and a more egalitarian society is something that I appreciate.