travelling allrite

Oh it is so good to stay somewhere nice when you really need a good sleep and a good sleep was had. We decide to extend our stay by a day. And that we before breakfast, a smorgasbord of deliciousness. Not the hot oily buffets of Australia and Western hotels in Asia, but a nice selection of cold cuts, jams, breads and fruit. Yes, there actually was egg and bacon, but the self made waffle was the best hot food. It's Sunday, so much is closed or open late. There is still much to see in the area. We hop aboard yet another Danish Oresundstag train to nearby Lund. The historic town is pretty quiet and it is raining. However, the Lund Domkyrka (cathedral) really is magnificent. But being Sunday it was closed to sightseers for a service, though the organ sounds truly magnificent. Cold and wet we return to Malmö and wander the squares and shopping streets. Most shops are closed so we can't get raincoats for B and Alex. We eat a big steak lunch at Mandos S...

It sometimes seems a bit incongruous to have visited museums in distant countries while neglecting their local counterparts. We've taken Alex to science centres in places as distant as Paris and Tokyo, but never looked around the ANSTO Discovery Centre fifteen minutes down the road. To be fair he's done vacation activities there before and B and I went on a tour of the old nuclear reactor before he was born. But this was the first time that Alex's activities were actually held in the Discovery Centre, allowing us to have a look around. It's pretty small and there isn't that much to see without going on a tour of the facilities. However, I was captivated by my all time favourite science demonstration, a cloud chamber showing the trails of particles as they pass through a liquid. Meanwhile, Alex built Lego WeDo robots. You can't get much more local than your own suburb. Last term Alex studied some of the local history of Illawong, a suburb that...