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Here is a satellite image of Denmark and part of Sweden.
Kiel is in the lower left corner. We took a ferry from Germany
to Denmark (the little dotted line at the bottom of the
map.) And we took the new bridge from Denmark to Sweden
(Copenhagen to Malmo). Actually, bridge is NOT where
the red line is. It is actually a bit north of the
yellow dots. There is a tunnel from Denmark to that little
island in the Oresund (so ships can pass), and the bridge
goes from the island to Malmo.
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This is the ferry we took from Germany to
Denmark. The ferry runs every 30 minutes,
24 hours a day and the crossing takes about
45 minutes. More than 3000 cars, trucks,
and buses cross each day.
Notice how small the waves are. There
is NO SURFING on the Baltic Sea!
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The bridge from between Copenhagen and
Malmo was opened in July 2000. And we
got to cross in August! It is the largest
cable-stayed suspension bridge in the
world, and the 10th longest overall.
Building of this bridge had been
discussed for over 100 years.
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The bridge is 9.5 miles long and it
takes about 10 minutes to cross.
That is much better than the 1 hour
it used to take with the Ferry.
It costs about $30 each way, so
that ends up being about $3 per minute.
But the bridge cost $2.75 million
and took almost 7 years to build.
(Hey! That's only $0.75 per minute!)
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I think this photo is nice.
Malmo is Sweden's 3rd largest city,
If you want to know more about Malmo,
visit their webpage.
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