Blogs from Copenhagen, Region Hovedstaden, Denmark, Europe - page 4

Thursday, 31 May - Lubeck, Germany It was time to say goodbye to Brugge and let it rip on the German Autobahns. As great as it was to visit, in hindsight we should have left Belgium off the itinerary, as Brugge was a major detour and we’ll still need to return to see the rest of the country. We should have added an extra night to Amsterdam and Berlin, but oh well – you don’t know these things. However, it was a sorry day for driving and so I’m going to call it “The Great Disappointment”. Here are the stats as to why: 700km of road (200km in Belgium, 100km in Netherlands, 400km in Germany) 700km of continual trucks – thousands of them! 400km of road works (approximately 6 of each 8km, with only 2km of ... read more

Copenhagen was very exciting! Emily and I were exhausted on Thursday morning when we had to wake up at 3am to get to the airport. We probably didn’t have to even get up that early, and its safe to say that both of us were not in the best of moods that morning. We did make it to the airport easily and were comfortable on the way to Copenhagen. After we got to the airport and had some coffee, Emily and I were very hyper as we made our way to the hostel. We waited for our friends there for about an hour until they showed up. It was really exciting to see people from back home in London! Dakin (from Pennsylvania), Oscar (my flat mate, from England), and Meg (one of my other flat mates ... read more

We woke up nice and relatively early today excited that there was sun streaming through our window! So we got up checked out, dropped our stuff at the station and headed back to Tivoli for some fun and frolics on the rides!! It was a mon so there was no queues which was amazing! We started on a relatively tame rollercoaster just to get going and then they got more amazing slash scarier! Ben was not a happy chappy on the really high ones like the big drop but was a trouper and did all but one of them and ejoyed all but one of those!! :) He did a few more games and won enough chips not for the giant robot I wanted sadly but for a lil giraffe keyring which has been proudly named ... read more

Obsession with food. Why? I think it's because its one of the simplest pleasures in life where we can use all of our senses. We taste, we admire by sight, we touch to bring that morsel of food to our mouth, we smell delight or disgust. We also hear; whether it be silence to allow our other senses take pleasure, or to appreciate our company in conversation over a meal. When I was given the opportunity to dine at Noma in Denmark, I was truly excited!! I googled and found out that Noma was considered the top World restaurant for 2011. Wow, and little me had an opportunity to go !!! Sight was definately the sense that had priority at this establishment in Noma; it was more like masterpieces of scaled-down art. Whether it be from ... read more

I am writing this blog a day late, because the most eventful things that happened yesterday happened late at night....So it all began with Katrine cooking dinner for Mie and myself --Krebinetter--with potatoes and bernaise sause...so good. After dinnner we listened to music and pre-gamed it at Katrine's apartment, because downtown Copenhagen bars are super expensive, and almost everyone gets drunk at their houses and then goes out...so after card games (fuck the dealer danish version) and drunk twister I believe we were hammered enough to go downtown. The bars in Copenhagen don't close until 6 in the morning! so its normal to not go out until midnight...Katrine didn't think I would make it that late (as it turns out I was up until 6.30!) After an eventful bike ride to downtown we ended up at ... read more