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...

Back onto our usual schedulled programming of exploring, we went around Malmo on Saturday. Starting with a classic boardgames shop littered with ye olde board games with this 1980s Games Workshop game Some wandering later we went to the Malmo museum set in the castle (or Slott in Swedish). This was the site of a refugee camp of the white buses in 1945. These were a series of buses that brought concentration camp victims to neutral Sweden. It's nice for once to visit a European country not devastated by war either physically or psychologically. Just nice, easy to remember, wars from centuries ago. Speaking of which, my favourite story from this museum was the Swedish fleet during the Scandia war. In an episode of humiliation bad enough I'm sure he was pleased he died, the commander of the fleet turned his ship at too steep an angle and the gunpowder shifted dramatically and the whole flag ship sank immediately  Danni considering her career prospects as a fish. It does seem less ...

Thursday started with us waking up at 7am and cycling over to the local Opel parts shop to find out if they had the tube we needed in stock, they didn't. We were able to order it but with no eta on the delivery we were stuck in place for the time being. Not wanting to waste a glorious day, and a not so glorious tan line, we headed to the local beach by bike. Having been told the mechanic's mate would be at the van for 3pm, we cycled back ready to see if he could concoct a fix. As it turns out he wasn't available so we just hung around Moira waiting until 6pm to find out. We did get to see some very out of place Highland cows though. The boys were starting to get quite frustrated by being stuck in place and not being allowed their usual freedom so we ended up taking them on 2 evening walks Friday rolled around and we were starting to feel like this fix for Moira would take the whole weekend when all of a sudden Ali knocked on the window. Low and behold the part had arrived a...

 Tuesday started off ominously with Moira failing to start but fortunately a very friendly English expat walker in the car park we overnighted in came over to offer help. The help came in the form of her son Wilf who, after being dragged out of bed at the ungodly hour of 10am, helped us get started again. I'm sure nothing else could go wrong. A little drive and a cycle later we were in Copenhagen ready to explore the wonders of the city museum. Whilst relatively small, the modern exhibits and the coverage of the extensive history of civil disobedience in the city was super cool. Byggeren in particular was an example of a playground where the local community had built structures and had several battles with the police over whether they should stay. Danni had to have a slice of cake since it was her birthday. We followed this up with some Danish retail therapy and buying out 6th and 7th new board games (lol) We then took to the cycle lanes and happened across this gem Danni had read ...