It's no longer a dream, but...

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. The photo shows a menu board of a restaurant in the heart of the city. A URL and a phone number were written at the bottom of the menu board, but it seems the URL is no longer available, so I deleted the information by my Photoshop. I've been using Adobe Photoshop for many years. At the beginning, it was hard to use a lot of functions correctly and creatively, but time went by and now I feel like I can't imagine my life without Adobe Photoshop. I'm so obsessed with it. What a dreamy software.

Walk around Malmö as a first-time visitor

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. Being in Malmö and walking around the streets were like being in a movie scene and walking around the picturesque street. There were a few reasons why I felt so. Reason 1) Cobblestone lanes were just dreamy. Reason 2) I could see such beautiful buildings along both sides of each street. Reason 3) I visited the town early in the morning (before the town would be crowded with tourists). Thinking back now, I chose a right timing to walk around Malmö for the first time. Next time, hopefully I will be able to stay longer and see more, do more, and then want to feel more.

Swedish fingerpost

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. I found this Swedish fingerpost near Malmö Central Station. I had no idea what they are indicating about. So I just took a photo of the fingerpost and started to walk around the city, I'd say aimlessly, but believed to be able to find out something interesting or something beautiful during my time in Malmö. Before I got there, I didn't google about Malmö so much. I did, but it was not like a lot, jut a little. I think sometimes it's very good to visit a new place without knowing too much about it. Back to the past kind of thing. Back when we didn't have the Internet...

Cat statue sits on the stairs in Malmö, Sweden

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. I downed the stairs toward the canal and found some cat statues which looked like sitting on a step or walking along the canal. You can see one of them on this photo which looks like sitting on the stairs and staring into the city of Malmö from there. I don't know why there were some cat statues, but I took some photos of them. They looked so cute. Speaking of Sweden, one of my Canadian acquaintances told me about Ice Hotel in Sweden. According to him, Ice Hotel was fantastic where the place their guests can sleep on a romantic Ice Bed.

Learn something that I didn't know

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. Malmö is my one and only city that I walked around in Sweden, but one of my acquaintances recently told me about an interesting story about sunrise. He said he has heard about a place that the sun never rises. I asked where it was. He said it was somewhere in Sweden depending on season, not all year long. Really?! I've heard about some cities on earth that the sun never sets depending on season, and the phenomenon is called the midnight sun. So I asked Mr. Google to learn about it more. According to some Google results, the phenomenon that the sun never rises is called the polar night. It was eye-opening to know that.

Take a photo on a street corner

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. I don't remember exactly where it was, but if I took this photo by my iPad mini, I could track down where it was. My iPad mini has a very futuristic function. I don't know what the function is called, but my photos in my iPad mini are automatically links to a map. With that I can track down my memory line where I was on that day. The map is accurate. Eye-opening. By the way, my digital camera was broken last last month in Pattaya, Thailand. I tried to take a photo of my lunch, and dropped it on the floor. Luckily, I didn't loose the data.

A view of a high street with no one

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. I was walking around one of the high streets of the city. It was Sunday morning and the street wasn't busy, so I could take a photo from this angle. I don't usually take photos of people, but a middle-aged guy who I've met a long time ago had a very unique hobby to take photos of people. He said the always ask new people to take a photo of their hands. In his own opinion, every pair of hands is having different character, and they are just like people's face. It was interesting to hear. I don't know why he didn't ask me to take a photo of my hands, though.

Sounds like Northern Europe

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. It's a very lovely and the third largest city in Sweden. Recently, my acquaintance and me talked about Scandinavian countries and some fabulous hotels that we've hared about them, but haven't stayed yet. She talked about a hotel in Finland. She didn't remember the actual name of the hotel, but said 'igloo hotel' or something and we googled it. The hotel rooms looked like igloos. She said her friend paid so much money to stay in a igloo-styled glass room to see the Northern lights from his bed, but he couldn't see it. What a shame. I talked about Ice Hotel in Sweden. I've heard about the hotel from my Canadian acquaintance. According to him, every facilities of the hotel is made with ice and hotel guests sleep on an ice bed.

At a boarding platform

I took this photo on a platform of Malmö Central Station in Sweden while I was waiting a train to get back to Copenhagen, Denmark. It was my 9th time to cross borders by train. My first experience was when headed to Prague, the Czech Republic from Budapest, Hungary via Slovakia. After spending four nights in Prague, I took a train to Dresden, Germany. One of the other experiences was a round-trip from Munich, Germany to Salzburg, Austria and also I had a round-trip from Frankfurt, Germany to Zurich, Switzerland. I love train trips.

Let's cross that bridge when we come to it

I took this photo during my train trip from Copenhagen, Denmark to Malmö, Sweden. When the train was passing on the Öresund Bridge (Danish: Øresund Bridge), I took a short movie and some photos like this. The Öresund Bridge is a double-track railway and motorway across the Öresund strait and is the longest road-rail bridge in the European continent. When I took this photo, I mean I was on the train to Malmö, Sweden, I didn't have any information and maps about Malmö, but I didn't worry about anything. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

An impromptu visit to Malmö, Sweden

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden without knowing where it was. I mean I knew I was in Malmö, Sweden, but I was a first-timer in Malmö and Sweden itself thus I didn't know much about the lay of the land. It was very memorable and pretty good experience walking around one of the most beautiful Scandinavian cities without any prior knowledge or information about it. Come to think of it, someone told me that as high as the expectations were, the harsh the disappointment was. I think sometimes this is true, but not always.

Spring to someone's mind

This is my favorite kind of photo of a cityscape. The photo shows one of the narrow streets in Malmö, Sweden. As it was a Sunday morning, there weren't many people on the streets. This street was the place where I've exchanged a few words with the locals for the first time in Malmö. It was too short to call this a conversation. I'd say it was a few words just to go by each other, but it's still remembered to this day. So, when I saw this photo in this morning, this story has sprung to my mind.

What do you mean by that?

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. While I was taking a stroll around the city, I found this cute red building then got side-tracked to take a photo of it. When I was going through immigration at the Copenhagen airport, the immigration officer asked me where my destination was, Denmark or Sweden. At that moment, I was just excited to get into Denmark, so I was kinda confused, but later on I understood why I was asked like that. Sweden especially Malmö isn't exactly far away from the Copenhagen airport. The airport is located above the railway station and a train trip takes less than 30 minutes to get to Malmö. That is why.

How to walk on slush?

I found this cute bench beside the Church of Saint Peter (a.k.a. St Petri, Swedish: Sankt Petri Kyrka) in Malmö, Sweden. I guess I should have visited Malmö in summer and sat on the bench for a while. It looked so cosy if it was in summer. I was there in January and the square next to the church was slush and there were also piles of snow. Come to think of it, recently I talked with my English acquaintance how to walk on slush. It's said you should take small steps and don't lift your foot completely off the ground. It sounds like a penguin's walking method, but the point is penguins don't have knees. That's the difference between us.

Wind-chill factor

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. The bicycle parking area was fully covered with lingering snow. It was a bone-chilling cold day and also I was this close to Öresund (Danish: Øresund) strait, so I guess wind-chill temperature experienced by my body was much more lower. Three days later, I was leaving Northern Europe for Bangkok, Thailand. I packed my snow boots, winter hat, gloves, heavy winter jacket and everything like that in my suitcase and flew to Thailand. Bangkok was boiling hot as usual.

I'm double-minded

The photo shows such beautiful Christmas decorations of Malmö, Sweden. I was glad I  could visit Malmö at a festive season and could see this stunning view. Back then I was thinking about my up-coming vacation, actually I was teetering between Australia or Denmark. I've never been to any countries in southern hemisphere, so Australia was a possibility. On the other hand, I had never been to any countries in Scandinavian Peninsula, so Denmark was also a possibility. Finally I chose Denmark and visited Sweden from there.

Get into a long conversation

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden. I liked the whitish building on the photo, especially the windows. The windows themselves were quite simple, but look at the ornament on the wall. They're spectacular, aren't they? I didn't have enough information about Malmö, but exploring the city was so much fun because of that beautiful buildings. I've talked with some Swedish people in some different countries during my trip. They were all chatterbox and were knowledgeable about many many topics. I enjoyed our conversation pretty much as if I lost track of time.

By the skin of one's teeth

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden while I was heading toward HSB Turning Torso. During my last trip I got far enough north in winter time, so I was just curious to see things in a day with below zero temperature. Actually, I didn't have a temperature indicator or something, but the water around the lighthouse was still unfrozen. From what I remember, the science classes in my elementally school taught me that water freezes at zero degrees Celsius, so I guess the temperature was a little above zero degrees Celsius.

It turned into something interesting

The photo shows HSB Turning Torso. It's the tallest building in Scandinavia and is situated in Malmö, Sweden. I didn't have any ideas how to take better photos of this unique shaped skyscraper, but in a way this photo turned into something interesting. HSB Turning Torso looked totally different from lots and lots of buildings in Malmö, and I'd say it stuck out like a sore thumb, but actually I went there to see this unique shaped skyscraper this close to me. In one word, it was amazing. Speaking of unique shaped buildings, I saw a lot of them in Tel Aviv, Israel. I've posted some of them on this blog so far, but I think I have some more photos of that unique shaped buildings in Tel Aviv. They don't look similar to HSB Turning Torso, they look rather different, but I think they are also amazing architecture.

Turn it on to attract attention

I took this photo in Malmö, Sweden when I was walking on an empty street aimlessly. It was Sunday morning and almost all shops in Malmö were closed. However, the shutters of shops were kinda interesting exactly liked the photo shows. I was there a bit earlier than their opening time, but I could see inside of the shops through the shutters coz the shutters looked more like metal frames. I think it was a great idea to take someone's attention no matter if the shops were still working in preparation for opening.