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Travelling to Kristianstad
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Flying
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- Fly to Copenhagen (Köpenhamn,
København)
- Kastrup Airport: CPH.
From there you can either take the train or drive:
- Take the train
from Copenhagen
Airport
Railway station directly to Kristianstad:
(1 hour, 44 min, leaving every hour.).
- The ticket costs
appr. 163 SEK (Swedish crowns; appr.
16 EUR, 11 GBP, 20 USD)
and can pe purchased
using credit or bank
cards (or cash).
- Trains on Fridays
leave every hour, from
5.56 until 21.56.
- The last reasonable train
leaves the airport station at 21.56, to arrive in Kristianstad at
23.40. (There is a very last one, leaving at 0.16, arriving in
Kristianstad at 2.14.)
- (To return: trains leave Kristianstad for Copenhagen Kastrup Airport every
hour from 6.18 to 21.28)
- From Kristianstad
railway station taxi
services to
the venue (Bäckaskog
Slott) operate at a special
rate (250 SEK, equivalent to 26 EUR,
17 GBP, 31 USD); it takes appr. 15
min.
or
- Drive (e. g.
in a rented car)
from Copenhagen
Airport to Kristianstad (130
kms, 70 miles, 1
hour 30 min)
(over the new toll bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden, you pay the
fee at the counter on the Swedish side, cards applicable).
- From Kristianstad drive 10 kms on E 22 dir. Kalmar, to Bäckaskog,
then turn left to Bäckaskog
Slott (= castle) (see
map below).
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- From the UK:
There is an overnight car ferry from Harwich
to Esbjerg on the Danish west
coast. From there it is 330 kms (180 miles, 5 hrs) to Copenhagen (some
toll bridges but no
ferries!) plus 130 kms (70 miles) to Kristianstad (over
the new toll bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden, see above).
- From / through Germany:
From Hamburg: drive 320 kms
to Copenhagen plus 130 kms
(70miles) to Kristianstad.
- Car ferry
from Germany (Puttgarden) to Denmark (Rödby) and toll bridge from Denmark
(Copenhagen) to Sweden (Malmö) - you can buy combined tickets for
both ferry and bridge at either toll booth
From Berlin: drive to Rostock or to Sassnitz on the island of
Rügen on the Baltic coast, take ferry to Trelleborg at the southern tip of
Sweden (near Malmö), drive 120 kms (65 miles) to Kristianstad.
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From Kristianstad to Bäckarskog Castle
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- From Kristianstad drive 10 kms on E 22 dir. Kalmar, to Bäckaskog, then turn left to
Bäckaskog Slott (= Castle) (see
map below).
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