Comments on Copenhagen

The weather this weekend was fantastic - I think the highs were in the low to mid 70s. Friday I was going to meet Lars (an ex-UW grad student, now DTU post-doc) and some of his friends at Tivoli, which is this large park/garden/amusement park in downtown Copenhagen. They were going to see a Danish folk singer there. I made it downtown at like 9:30 or so, and the line to get in was outrageously long. I still don't have a cell phone either, so I figured there was no chance I would find them if I did make it in. So, I just wandered around downtown for a bit since I had not been around there at all yet. I stopped at a pub and sat on the patio for a beer and then went home. I'll definitely make it to Tivoli some other day...

Saturday I went to Malmo, Sweden, but I think I'll comment on that and post some pics in a separate blog. Although, when I got back to the Copenhagen train station and went to the bathrooms there, I saw something I found quite odd. At the entrance to the women's restroom was a booth with a lady selling women's panties. Naturally, I took a photo and its posted. Weird.

Sunday I walked to a small produce market nearby and picked up some stuff to cook up breakfast. The guy at the market asked where I was from - I responded and asked him where he was from. He said Iraq, but I couldn't understand him...to my "what?" he replied "Saddam Hussein!" He was really nice and I thought that was kinda funny. I packed up my things while I made breakfast. I'm moving to the DTU containers tomorrow - where I'll stay for the rest of the trip. In the afternoon I went to a beach that's about 10 min. away by train and met Lars and his friends there. We mostly just lounged around (well, they played frisbee while I lounged) drank a couple bottles of wine and enjoyed the sunshine. No one remembered to brink a corkscrew so the guys opted for pushing the corks into the bottles. It seemed like a real task. Apparently this beach is like 15 min by bike from the new place I'm moving to. I'm going to try and get a bike on Tuesday - it seems to be a necessity here. Tonight just packing and laundry. I'm meeting the other US student tomorrow at like 9 am...much too earlier than I'd like.

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