Arrivederci, Malmö

In Malmö over the weekend we enjoyed the spiciest meal we’d eaten for many months, courtesy of the Restaurang India on Amiralsgatan. It’s generally true that the Swedes are wary of piquant food - stuffs labelled here as stark (in this context, hot), often seem medium-spicy, or merely mild, to our palates.

We dined at Pizza Hut too. In other countries, the Hut’s station in the pizza hierarchy would be a humble one. Not so in Sweden, where the horror of what passes for everyday takeaway pizza is such that a stuffed-crust Super Supreme is a true gourmet experience by comparison.

We’d only ever passed through Malmö before, on our way to or from Copenhagen, but were glad we took the time to visit it this time around. It’s a not-too-big, not-too-small kind of a place. Seeing as how we’ve become so accustomed to small-town life, it struck us as just cosmopolitan enough. The red-brick buildings and the canals made it vaguely reminiscent, to me, of a Northern English city.

And, besides all the eating, and the shopping, we got to savour the slight but definite thrill of our first ever Wi-Fi experience, attained whilst sitting in the lobby of the Radisson on Östergatan.

Posted by misteraitch at October 22, 2003 12:00 PM | TrackBack