London-Stockholm: Copenhagen/Malmö
London to Stockholm by Train Leg 3: Amsterdam - Hamburg
We spent most of the day traveling, catching the Berlin train from Amsterdam (a route previously traveled on NYE 2005), changing at Osnabrueck onto one of the fast German ICE trains to Hamburg. What's more we traveled first class, only because it ended up being cheaper.
We didn't get to see much of Hamburg, it was more intended as a stopping point to break the journey. We arrived fairly late in the afternoon and left early the next, maybe another day.
London to Stockholm by Train Leg 4: Hamburg - Copenhagen
Last month I said no planes and no ferries for the trip from Liverpool to Stockholm, this almost went to plan until part way through the train journey out of Hamburg the whole train shunted onto a ferry boat with us on it! For safety reasons I assume, we had to get off the train and sit upstairs while we made the 45 minute crossing of the straight from Puttgarten in Germany to Rodby in Denmark before getting back on the train, and continuing the trip to Copenhagen.
We spend a couple of nights in a very very windy Copenhagen. The wind made it very cold.
Pictured here is the city hall
We spent most of the day traveling, catching the Berlin train from Amsterdam (a route previously traveled on NYE 2005), changing at Osnabrueck onto one of the fast German ICE trains to Hamburg. What's more we traveled first class, only because it ended up being cheaper.
We didn't get to see much of Hamburg, it was more intended as a stopping point to break the journey. We arrived fairly late in the afternoon and left early the next, maybe another day.
London to Stockholm by Train Leg 4: Hamburg - Copenhagen
Last month I said no planes and no ferries for the trip from Liverpool to Stockholm, this almost went to plan until part way through the train journey out of Hamburg the whole train shunted onto a ferry boat with us on it! For safety reasons I assume, we had to get off the train and sit upstairs while we made the 45 minute crossing of the straight from Puttgarten in Germany to Rodby in Denmark before getting back on the train, and continuing the trip to Copenhagen.
We spend a couple of nights in a very very windy Copenhagen. The wind made it very cold.
Pictured here is the city hall
and the main street
London to Stockholm by Train Leg 5: Copenhagen - Malmo
This leg of the journey has only been possible for 7 years when the Oresund Bridge/Tunnel was opened linking Denmark to Sweden by rail and road.
We spend a day and night in Malmö, again very windy with rain, cold enough that the rain froze once it hit our jackets and umbrella. Fortunately it didn't feel as cold as Copenhagen and in the evening we had a fair amount of snow making it very pretty.
This building, the Turning Torso is the tallest in Sweden and rotates 90 degrees from base to the top.
London to Stockholm by Train Leg 6: Malmö - Stockholm
The final leg was by the fast Swedish X2000 train taking us back to Stockholm where our trip began just over 3 weeks ago. It has been a long but worthwhile trip...
Stockholm - Glasgow - Edinburgh - The Lakes - London - Kent - Isle of Man - Liverpool - London - Brussels - Amsterdam - Hamburg - Copenhagen - Malmö - Stockholm
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