Category: Strange Things

Shopping!

Going shopping hungry..

Found (= cycled past) a supermarket (ICA) here in Borrby and remembered that I REALLY need a toothbrush – there’s a limit to what chewing gum can achieve – so stopped and parked the bike.

There’s the obligatory bottle of hand disinfectant dispenser inside the door, but no compulsory masks or trolleys.

So. Toothbrushes

I aimed for this sort because they come with a case for the bristley bit..

Then I noticed they all have different pictures on the handles 😲🤭

Crazy.

Of course I had to look at them all…

Mine 🙂

The bluetit brush had a tiny head.. The one with bees was nice but I’d have had to dig quite a long way back. And the robin’s good too 🙂

Assorted other pictures

…and they all handed their passports over and 3 fell out..

Having got through the Danish checks I assumed they wouldn’t check again in Sweden.

I was wrong.

The Swedish border controllers were stricter than the Danish, although they didn’t make us take our luggage out of the bus which was nice of them.

After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, and a lot of hi vis people getting on and off the bus inspecting things and talking into their walkietalkies and/or phones, three people were told to get off the bus for unknown (to me) reasons.

I overheard one lady asking why she couldn’t continue on to Malmö, only to get this reply:

“I ask the questions here.”

And that was that. End of conversation.

They were eventually (~40 minutes later) taken to one of the rooms in the building on the right and the bus was allowed to finish the journey in peace.