Hello from Sweden

Hi there my dear friends and family! I am emailing you from Sweden tonight (when I should really be sleeping) on this, the shortest night of the year. Actually, yesterday Sweden was on holidaye because of the longest day of the year! When we arrived in Malmo, everything was closed. But we took a wonderful walk around and just happened to pass 1 block from and miss a dutch windmill and the oldest castle in scandanavia, BUT, have no fear, we are going back tomorrow. Malmo is just across the water from Copenhagen and we had to take a HUGE bridge to get here. It is home to the 'Turning torso' the tallest building in Sweden, and everybody here rides a bike! There are MASSIVE stores of bikes just sitting at the train station waiting to be picked up by their owners, and most aren't even locked up! WE arrived in Denmark this afternoon via overnight ferry from Harwick in England. The driving in Denmark is much easier and they seem to love McDonalds because there is one on every conrner. The ferry ride was ok, I'm not a huge fan of boats, but before that I spent a day and a half in London and we got to see a lot! We took a boat tour down the river, toured the Tower of London and Westmister Abbey (which is absolutely gorgeous) and had dinner in Piccadilly Circus after passing by Buckingham palace. We were using the metro for two days and staying in Swiss Cottage near Hyde Park - super fun! But now we are in a place where they use kronor and not the pound or the euro. Tomorrow we are going to tour Malmo again and then Denmark, probably staying somewhere between Copenhagen and Hamburg Germany (a good distance, I know, but that's as far as we know).

Well, let me know if you can't stand to get anymore updates like this, and check out some photo highlights so far at :
ofoto.com!
I will add descriptions as soon as I have a chance.


Otherwise, I hope you are all well. Talk to you again soon, I hope!

PS - send me your addresses, really! I forgot my address book. : (

<3 amanda l. berg