Another Beautiful Day in Denmark
Actually I guess I should say another beautiful day in Denmark and Sweden. We decided to take the train to Malmo, Sweden today to explore. The train crosses the Öresund, commonly known in English as the Sound. It is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden). The Øresund Bridge is a combined railway and motorway bridge across the Øresund strait and is the longest in Europe with both roadway and railway combined in a single structure, running nearly 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait. The crossing is completed by the 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) Drogden Tunnel from Peberholm to the Danish island of Amager. I obviously didn't take this picture but wanted you to see how the road comes up out of the water to become the bridge. Pretty amazing. The justification for the additional expenditure and complexity related to digging a tunnel for part of t...