Saturday kilted

[cessna152towser]

Very interesting. Did you see any swedes wearing Blaklader kilts? Only time I've been in Malmo was back in 1971, long before I began to wear kilts. No bridge or tunnel in those days. I took the train from Copenhagen's main station to the harbour then went on a ship from there. I remember leaving the harbour we sailed very close to a big US Navy aircraft carrier which was visiting Copenhagen at the time. The ship I sailed on had rails on the lower deck, with freight wagons shunted on board in Denmark and shunted off in Sweden by a switcher. On the way back later in the week, I was short of time for my flight home from Copenhagen's Kastrup airport and caught a direct flight to there from Malmo Bulltofta airport, which took all of seven minutes in the air.

[GG]

Very interesting. Did you see any swedes wearing Blaklader kilts?

Actually I have never seen a Swede in a kilt and I only know Blåklädar from the Internet.

However, the former fiancé, of the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, Daniel Collert, has been in the media wearing a tartan kilt. The occasion was his participation in the 18th birthday party of Princess Madelaine, Victoria’s kid sister.

http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0008/19/mad.html

According to the newspaper he should together with some friends have started a kilt club. He is seen arriving to the Royal castle together with another guest. (As he and the Crown Princess were not officially engaged he could, due to the etiquette, not sit together with her at the table).

Only time I've been in Malmo was back in 1971, long before I began to wear kilts. No bridge or tunnel in those days. I took the train from Copenhagen's main station to the harbour then went on a ship from there. I remember leaving the harbour we sailed very close to a big US Navy aircraft carrier which was visiting Copenhagen at the time. The ship I sailed on had rails on the lower deck, with freight wagons shunted on board in Denmark and shunted off in Sweden by a switcher. On the way back later in the week, I was short of time for my flight home from Copenhagen's Kastrup airport and caught a direct flight to there from Malmo Bulltofta airport, which took all of seven minutes in the air.

The railway ferries between Copenhagen and Malmø were moved outside of Copenhagen several years before the bridge opened. Today the trains are on a separate lower “stock” on the bridge.
The connection starts with a 4 km (2.5 miles) long tunnel close to Copenhagen Airport, going to an artificial “island” from where the bridge leads to Limhamn some 10 km (6 miles) south of Malmø.
The bridge itself is about 8 km (5 miles long).
The weekend before it opened it was possible to walk on the bridge and there were busses bringing people to the “island”. My wife and I did it – walked to Sweden and back – along with approx. 20.000 other Danes. On top of that came the Swedes walking in the opposite direction.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...und_Bridge.jpg

Greg