Friday 25 September 2015

Copenhagen to Malmo

Good nights sleep and a very good breakfast at The Grand. Then  spent the morning and some of the afternoon visiting the National Museum in Copenhagen. Saw the most interesting and very provoking exhibition White Busses. Saw a couple of  clocks, One made in Copenhagen looked very sad with a  very badly bent  hour hand. Also noticed in a typical Copenhagen merchants room in the museum a clock  which I would have called a dutch clock, so borders were well and truly broken,  puts some  preconceptions of scale and  nationality into or perhaps out of kilter..

The grand hotel had been looking after our cases and we then  took the train to Malmo. getting a ticket was a bit fraught as the ticket  credit card system were broken and we had to pay in cash but  they were able to accept euros. the journey to Malmo was a bout 40 mins and very good. The trip from the station to our  air B and B was a bit lengthy due to the directions being a bit inadequate.

A quick foray to a grocery shop to stock up  and then I attended a very interesting meeting of the Malmo clock and watch collectors club  it was very good and I was able to  look at a very attractive  wood wheeled clock, which has  the alarm mechanism  made form box wood  a wood that is not found in Sweden. interesting . The clock was made in 1780 ish.

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