Staycation In Helsingborg
While the rest of the world are suffering from intense heat wave, here is practically rainy and grey. It feels hot and humid though after the rain. Our summer road trip turned out to be brief this time due to unpredictable weather conditions. We drove south a week ago expecting to get the best of the sun. It’s typically warmer in the south so we headed to Helsingborg (Sweden). Hubby used to live in this city before so it’s easy for us to go around and find a hotel. He said he would show me the street where he had his flat and the hotel where he worked as a night porter. We usually drive through Helsingborg when we do a road trip to neigboring countries but never make a stop to explore the city. And here’s what we discovered recently.
Right at the heart of the city is this fortress leading to the famous Kärnan (The Core), a medieval tower used in the past for controlling entry to the Baltic Sea. Hubby was tired and out after going up 100+ steps and I had no intention to take the stairs down so we took the elevator (hiss).
The Helsingborg city hall building is unanimously impressive to me. It looks like a castle in the city centre. It’s close to the Kärnan and across the street is the harbour where ferries to Helsingor (Denmark) dock. There’s more to show and tell about this beautiful city but in my future posts.
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Marlene is a teacher by profession holding a degree of Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education. She works as a Mother Language Teacher in Sweden. She is a Filipina married to a Swede. She has been blogging since 2007 and she and her hubby own quite a number of websites.
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First of all congratulation for this NEW CLOTH of your blog.
I like it very much as its suites our eyes.
and Second you are one from all those lucky folks who get chance and opportunity to visit such places. As I am also one luckiest folks who loves to travel lot to such places which full of intrersting things which makes us remember that how ROAYLESNESS is exists in previous time.
I like very much the Life of KINGS as I am attracted to it right from my childwoods. Oue palnet is full of such places which is proof of that all existences of all TOWERING personalities and their Royal lifestyle.
Thanks a lot for this. I like this city very much and try my best to visit here in future.
Thank you, I like most the design of this theme. It just happened that I am in this beautiful country with histories of castles and royalties.
It does look like a great city I love how it truly does look royal and regal throughout.
It is, indeed. If given a choice I’d love to live there.
It is a pretty city, I like the building and architecture. thanks for sharing your world.
Beautiful shots of the place. The architecture is marvelous.
That is a nice building. It’s good you can enjoy a staycation. I think those are becoming more popular now. Keep hydrated as we too are having more humidity and rain and it makes one thirsty.
Joyful, thank you for visiting, it makes me joyful. It was just short but relaxing.
En väldigt vacker stad, har bara hunnit med ett kort besök där innan jag skulle vidare. Men nån gång skulle jag vilja besöka västkusten igen
indeed, both buildings are quite impressive. My fave is the 2nd one.
these are magnificent buildings! i love the medieval tower–it must have an interesting history.
P.S. you’re from Negros, too? kasimanwa.:p
My mother is from Dumaguete but we never lived there. We visited her place when I was little.
This place looks awesome! Nice pictures too! This is definitely going on my list of places to travel. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Claudia. I’m sure you’ll love this place if you like old architectures with histories behind.