Sweden

I love the designs created by Bo Bendixen - bold, bright and a good sense of fun. His headquarters are at Aarhus north of Copenhagen, but you can find some t-shirts, postcards and coffe cups at Atrium in Copenhagen. Most of his other stores are in beachside towns around Denmark. I'm looking forward to seeing his shop at the airport too, now that it is reopened after re-developments.

Today we took the train to Malmö in Sweden, and looked around the old city, had lunch on Lilla Torg (Little Square), some of the buidlings around it dating from the 16th century. Not to be put off by cooler days, the Swedes dine al fresco sometimes wrapping themselves in the blanket provided at each seat by the restaurant!

There are many pedestrian malls where bicycles are the only vehicular traffic. And pedestrians are out in force - this must be healthier for business - and the pedestrians.


The Sankt Petri Kyrka (St. Peter Church) is the oldest structure in Malmö, and I ws fascinated to see many carvings from the mid 1600s there very similar to the carvings on the organ at Roskilde which dates from the same time. The oldest part of the Sankt Petri Kyrka is the Krämarkapellett, or Tradesmen's chapel, which is decorated with frescos from the 1400s. These had been whitewashed during the Reformation, but were uncovered in the earth 20th century.