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The best thing is just to get a bike and cycle out to swim every day and to wonder at the emptiness of the beach.
Rent bikes at the shop opposite the indoor swimming pool and ride on the cycle tracks all
through the forest that runs parallel to the beach for miles.
Turn inwards and have coffee and cakes at the Soldier's Cottage (Soldat's Hus) in the middle of the forest, avoiding the real life soldiers doing their military service.
There is also a campsite in the forest, but now this is dominated by mobile homes, with few real tents - but good for kids and full camp shops
that sell buckets and spades, and the long red and yellow liquorice I loved as a kid.
Stay in the Kantarellen youth hostel right on the beach in the forest - the one that Henning Mankell writes about in One Step Backwards.
Fritidsvagen 27416, Ystad
Tel: 46 411 66566
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