Øresundståg, the train system behind one of my reasons for leaving Sweden, showcased its finest efforts today – my penultimate day of use.

This morning, the hourly service to Karlskrona mosied on through Kristianstad C 45 minutes behind schedule.

Øresundståg managed to top themselves this afternoon with a complete shutdown of the rail system in southern Sweden, stopping my train in Kristianstad. Luckily this time Oziel and I put in a two day buffer to get to the airport.

Given the size of the outage there are no buses. But I was able to make usage of the expert knowledge Oziel acquired from years of working in Lund. After deciding my fate with the trains was hopeless, I tightly grabbed all my bags and ran across Kristianstad to just catch the SkåneExpress 1 bus to Malmö. Despite the theoretical longer travel time, we have always found this the most reliable service.

Now … to decide how to get to the airport. We don’t want a repeat of the Christmas episode.