Silly Swedish Skirmishes
After we'd made the decision to head on upto Norway we were presented with the 7 hour drive that lay ahead of us and decided it best to break it up with some more Swedish goodness along the way. So far Sweden also seemed far more up our street with being much cheaper, more vegan, and a more interesting landscape than Denmark (also the squash is to die for). Starting our journey we did an hours drive and stopped off in Helsingborg for the afternoon. This was initally expected to be a tiny town with not a huge amount going on but we were pleasantly suprised. We started with the Karnan which was the keep from the old castle. Helsingborg in particular was a super critical location in the middle ages, being the eastern side of the Oresund strait, and so the gateway to the Baltic. This made it a key target for the Danish, who controlled this part of lower Sweden for much of its history, and the northern German Hanseatic trading cities. The tower itself had played host to several importan...