If you feel like all you ever do during autumn is grab fika with your friends, then take a look at Lundagård’s Autumn Guide. Whether you like cozy autumn days, outdoor activities or scary Halloween nights – Lundagård has compiled this guide with autumn activities for you and your friends. Take a look and get inspired on how to spend your autumn in and around Lund.
Pack your backpacks for a hike at Söderåsen
Söderåsen national park is the perfect place for a hike in autumn and you will enjoy the colorful trees of the forest. Take the train towards Höör and get off at Stehag station. From there the regional bus 518 will bring you to the bus stop Skärild Nationalpark. From the bus stop, it is just a 10 minute walk across the parking lot to the beginning of the national park where you can find the Söderåsen visitor centre, the park’s natural history museum Naturum and a little café.
The national park offers different trails from shorter and more simple trails to longer trails for more experienced hikers. You can choose a trail that fits your hiking level and enjoy a lovely day in nature. Bring some snacks or finish the day off with some fika at the café for a perfect autumn day.
Go apple picking
Autumn means it’s apple season, so why don’t you go pick your own apples? It’s the perfect day activity. There are multiple apple farms around Lund, for example Gloria’s Apple Farm or Solnäs Gård. AF Bostäder’s housing areas also have some apple and fruit trees that are marked with a pick’n’eat sign. You can just check on their map online where the trees are located and go pick your apples. Once you have picked your apples, you can either eat them as they are or make some apple sauce, apple pie or apple cinnamon rolls. Enjoy your self-made fika for a cozy autumn day.
Knitting at the cinema
While movie nights at home can be cozy, your movie experience can be enhanced if you go to the cinema. Several cinemas in Malmö and Lund offer so-called ”stickbio” where you can bring your current knitting project and continue to work on it while enjoying new movie releases. During “stickbio”, the cinema leaves more light in the hall to offer you a good vision of your project. The next knitting night in Lund is on 18/11, featuring the new Hunger Games movie.
Paint your new favourite coffee mug
If the weather is bad outside, but you would still like to do something, painting your own ceramics at Målamik can be a good alternative to spending your day lounging in bed.
You can choose between over 100 different ceramics before you get introduced to a variety of different colors and techniques for painting. Don’t worry if you have never painted ceramics before, it’s a beginner-friendly activity. You can drop-in spontaneously, but it’s best to book a timeslot if you wish to unwind creatively. Check your pinterest for inspiration and grab your friends for one of the coziest fall activities in Lund.
Enjoy exciting hockey matches in Malmö
Every September, the Swedish Icehockey league (SHL) starts and brings together the best ice hockey teams from all around Sweden to compete with each other. You can enjoy watching an exciting and often eventful ice hockey match at Malmö’s Arena located in Hyllie, easily reachable by train. The ticket price for adults starts at 199 kronor, so a game is quite affordable. Be aware that you are only allowed to take a small bag inside the arena. Enjoy the lively atmosphere during the game, the music and the audience cheering on the players.
Want to take it slow at home?
During the dark season many activities are moved inside and you might find yourself spending more time at home than usual. If you’re already bored of the dark season, we have several different ideas on how to add more fun to your nights.
We have a handful of suggestions, including potluck nights or themed dinners with your loved ones. Everyone can bring a small part to contribute to the greater selection of foods, offering culinary variety for your taste buds and easing the task of hosting. Some fun themes may include murder mystery, wild west, pyjama party or fondue night. Moreover, you can level up your evenings with fun board games, karaoke competitions or even powerpoint nights. For this you can pick unhinged, oddly specific slide decks about random topics, such as why your friends would be perfect as certain TV show characters, or unpopular opinions. Every person then prepares for a presentation of 5 minutes, before rolling a dice to decide who starts presenting. To upgrade the game, you can also shuffle the presentation topics and present somebody else’s prepared slide deck.
If the previous ideas didn’t quite hit the spot and painting your own ceramics might be difficult with tight student budgets, you can always opt for an evening of candle painting and decorating. Especially with the Christmas season coming up soon, you can start handcrafting personal gifts for your loved ones and enjoy letting your creativity flow.
Pub nights, fun nights
Socializing in a living room outside of your own four walls? Bars can be fun locations to meet your friends and spend time together, but may generally be more expensive. Lund’s nations on the other hand offer a variety of affordable pub and hangout opportunities during the week with different snack options, tap beers and board games available for the perfect evening. Among those, Kalmar, Kristianstad, Lunds or Blekingska offer more traditional pub evenings while Helsingkrona and Göteborg’s elevate the game with fancy cocktails. At Hallands you can even find yourself participating in a karaoke or pub quiz night. Remember to reserve a table for guaranteed entry.
