We had figured that we would spend the last night of the trip somewhere in southern Sweden, within an hour or two of the Copenhagen airport, but it was the only night of the entire trip that we hadn't booked months in advance. So while we were driving down from Oslo, M found us a place in Helsingborg, which sort of balanced our desire for time on the drive through Sweden with our need to get to the airport the next morning.
Helsingborg turned out to be a good choice, as was our hotel. It was an easy walk through the park, past the old castle tower, and down the steps to the main part of town. The view from the wall above the terrace stairs looked out across town, towards the harbor, and over the narrow northern part of the Øresund to Denmark. It would be hard to overestimate the strategic importance of this high bluff, since virtually any shipping in and out the Baltic goes by here.
The next morning, I walked back down and out to Tropical Beach (really, that's what they call it -- see the last photo), on the north side of the harbor entrance. There's always something special about the final morning of a long trip, knowing that by the end of the day, we'll be back in Seattle.
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