My flying visit to Sweden

On Friday I drove to Luton to catch an EasyJet flight to Copenhagen. With my son Jonathan and my granddaughter Honesty, we were flying out to see Willow, my granddaughter and sister of Honi and daughter of Jonathan.

The whole flight was £30 to Denmark and £4.30 return to UK! Crazy price – so we flew to see Willow and to have dinner with her. We flew back on Saturday and I was home by 9.30pm.

After arrival at Copenhagen – a superb airport – we caught a train to Sweden. Passports checked on the train as Sweden is controlling immigration very tightly. Cross the bridge between the two countries – a 15 kilometre bridge and tunnel.

Willow is over there in a city named Lund – a city with a huge cathedral – built in 1145. A city of circa 85,000 of which 35,000 are students at the university. Willow was one of two students from the UK working in a lab at Medican Village on breast cancer.

Spending three months there on research into the use of DNA and proteins in fighting rouge cells, she is in her final year of her degree course in Biomedical sciences. And three weeks ago she flew home to attend an interview at Kings College, London for a place for a PHD in Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa – a terrible debilitating disease. She was accepted. Then flew back after 36 hours in the UK. All for £11 return ticket!

An amazing thing. Crazy prices. But so proud of Willow with her get up and go.

And seeing the masses of bicycles, as seen on my photo. A very happy brief adventure.

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