Linkopi @ Linköping

On Friday, we visited Norrköping, a town about 40 minutes away from Linköping. We took the campus bus there which was free and pearline had to fake that she is a Liu student. Hehe. but it worked! Norrköping is smaller than Linköping we were told that its a prettier place and it is true! Here are some buildings around Norrköping. The first few are of a synagogue in Norrköping but it wasnt open so we couldnt go in. The statue is in a park near town. The park should be very pretty in summer. We will go back to see it! The cathedral at the bottom is huge. A little smaller than Linköping cathedral but almost as nice. But we didnt get to go in 'coz it was closed. =(

After having a lunch at a pasta shop, we wandered into Gamla Stan, the old town. It's really small and didn't have much. A shop that sells children, haha, a shop that sells very cute kids stuff, chocolate shop, and some little castle lookalike buildings. There was also a cathedral which had a very big key hole on its main door! I wonder how big the key is.

Norrkoping's main form of transport is the Tram! That's something that Linkoping doesn't have. In summer, they will put one of the old old old Trams back in service! I wanna ride that tram!

The shopping region there had 3 main shopping malls. I think the shopping there is better! With more and bigger stores than Stora Torget at Linkoping. I shall take the bus there to shop when i feel like it! Before returning back to Linkoping, we stumbled upon 2 museums. Norrkoping has a canal running through it and it used to be a textile industrial town so there are a couple of dams. The water's all yellow and dirty looking the canal is still wider than Singapore River and faster moving. Haha. One of the museums had all the big machines that the old textile industries used to use. It's interesting. I'd like to see them in action!

We went back to Linkoping and had a good dinner of Bee Hoon Mee soup with mixed seafood soup! yummy yummy.

And we finally opened my precious can of Kaya on saturday morning for breakfast! Yummy! and we got prawn sticks from the asian shop!

Pearline and me went shopping on saturday at downtown and we bought so much stuff! I haven't spent so much money nor shopped so much in a very long time! It was super fun and the weather was perfect and town was at its most crowded! But the photos are with Pearline. haha. i'll add some when i get them.

On saturday evening, we had a little party with Luca, my italian friend and Martin and Daniel, our german friends! We made them some Hainanese Chicken Rice, Tom Yum Soup with Wanton, Cai Po Egg and green bean soup! The chicken rice this time was much better than the previous time. They all liked it! yay! We sat around and chat till about 12am! It was great fun. We'll do this again soon.

On Sunday, we visited Gamla Linköping, Old Linköping. The weather was pretty cold at first but it became really sunny after awhile! Wonderful!

It's an open air museum. The buildings were moved there from downtown when new buildings were built and these were to be torn down. This is the first house we saw. There was a bicycle exhibition and the bicycle in the bottom left photo is so weird looking! I wonder if anyone really rode it.This is some somebody's house opposite the big red one. The little house should be the kitchen or something. The house is quite huge! and looks quite nice too. Up the street was a little chapel with some sheeps outside. The house on the bottom left are toilets. And yes. they are all working and have new toilet bowls. And this, is the Chocolate shop! Alot of cheap cloetta chocolates! Easter is coming and there are very cute chick and chicken shaped chocolates and chocolate egg shells with little chocolate beans inside! So cute! Here are some random buildings around gamla. It's amazing how well built these houses are. They are all the original houses refurbished. They were moved either whole from downtown on a trailer or taken apart then put together again. This is a printing shop. They had old machines from like 1800s onwards and the machines all still work! The man working there showed us how the machines worked and it's unbelievable how they came up with such technology ages ago! The man was very nice and showed us around the place. And there's even moose shit paper in the shop! They also printed serviettes and cards the traditional way. Looks like fun. This is inside the old grocery shop. The granny working there was also very adorable. She told us that she used to wear those black clogs when she was a little girl and they're very comfortable. And for those who don't know, Lakerol is from Sweden..check out the top left corner photo..it's a Lakerol dispenser from the 1900s!