http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Denmark en-us Wed, 02 Dec 09 13:39:37 +0000 Wed, 02 Dec 09 13:39:37 +0000 Oh what a beautiful fairytale like citySo after spending a night in London Naomi and I caught an early plane to Copenhagen and we were lucky to spend time with Karin and Jimmy who were our gracious hosts tour guides chefs baristas chauffeurs and translators. We were spoilt We visited the Botanical Gardens and Statens Museum for Kunst National Gallery of Art before spending the evening a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-457533.html Arriving back to KBH after a two week break was great except for staring school back up. It was especially hard going two weeks without having my danish language class. I find it really peaceful to have everybody around you speaking a language you don't understand the majority of. It is lovely sitting on the train in the morning half asleep and not having to unintentionally listening to people http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Sjaelland/blog-457409.html Its either all gone terribly wrong or its all making perfect sense. Deciding between the two is the very difficult part. I've gone from devastated to calm tonight. I found a perfect recipe here httpblog.fatfreevegan.com200602frenchlentilandportabellastew.html I love this blog and recommend it to everyone. She's completely incredible. As I was waiting for the soup to simmer I poured myse http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-456538.html After Paree i parted from my fellow travellers and flew on up to Copenhagen. And i would be greeted at the airport by someone whom i had never met but would be staying with for a week. This person was Karen. A dear friend of Tiffany's whom knew her from her stay in England a few years back. I arrived in Copenhagen at the same time as 3 plane loads of soldiers returning from the middle east. So the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-453978.html So much has been going on I'll just run through my journal and give the highlights Very recently after my last post I had a week of Holiday. My host family too me to Hamburg and Amsterdam Amsterdam is probably one of the interesting and beautiful cities. There is so much to do Yes including Coffee Shops and The Red Light District. Of which I did see. It was quite the cultural shock. The f http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Midtjylland/Aarhus/blog-453700.html En sorry daarvoor Maar na de trip hebben we een drukke periode achter de rug gevolgd door een naar griepje afgelopen week. De terugkomst was goed en we hebben een hoop gelachen om elkaars verhalen en avonturen en al snel vervolgde het oude ritme zich weer. Maandag was de eerste dag dat we zouden gaan klimmen in plaats van kayakken omdat het water nu toch echt te koud is geworden. We begonnen d http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Midtjylland/blog-453406.html Hi GuysWell it's taken me a while to write this seeing as i've had no internet at home but I thought it should still be done as i've managed to record every other trip i've done so here goes..Annie and I left Gatwick on Friday night and after a 2 hour flight arrived in Denmark. We got the train to Andorra then two buses out to where we thought our Hostel was. We had a lovely old Danish Man obvio http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-450453.html Iedereen is weer veilig aangekomen in Denemarken Tijd om weer een kort berichtje te maken. Deze keer zal ik niet zoveel woorden gebruiken maar de foto's laten spreken.De laatste dagen in Finland zijn goed geweest ons laatste bezoek bracht ons naar Partaharju een Hojskole zoals de onze hier. Dat was een prachtige plek om te zijn volledige met echte Finse sauna. De Finnen aldaar stonden erop dat http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Midtjylland/blog-450006.html Woah ok I kind of fell off the radar a bit there... There is no way that I could condense all of the things I've been doing down into one entry so instead I present to you a picture dump. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-449376.html Yesterday I went for a bit of an explore from Christianshavn Metro station to the Opera House Operaen. Found this really weird abandon piece of land not too far from the station. Saw some woman come out of the gates and thought that it might be a cut through. It had a piano that had been painted complete with keys and lid. Lots of things that had been abandoned. Think it might have had some min http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-448423.html 2 monthsIrsquove officially been here for 8 weeks. And itrsquos still as crazy as it has been. Danish is getting better but I still canrsquot understand a normal conversation. Nothing too exciting has happened since the last time you heard from me. I hurt my shoulder due to public transportation and a hockey bag which isnrsquot even a cool reason I have to call the doctors today to see http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Midtjylland/Aarhus/blog-447256.html My plan for this evening was to start on one of the many papers I have due in the next couple weeks. What have I done with my time instead Watched Whale Wars on Animal Planet of course. And an interview on BBC's Hard Talk with the Hungarian Foreign Minister. So it was still a totally educational academic evening.Today my Women Art and Identity class took a field trip to two museums. The first http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Sjaelland/Birker-d/blog-447049.html The past few weeks have been very fun and I am happy to say that I have done things that I would of probably not had the chance to do back home. About 9 weeks ago I had my language camp with all of the other exchange students it was a lot of fun. We took few day trips one of them was to Arhus and it was so much fun. we started out at a museum and were able to look around for 3 hrs then we go out http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Midtjylland/Aarhus/blog-445491.html As we woke up in our fantastic apartment it was very bright outside. There is not much darkness here because Denmark is so far north. The apartment that we rented was a two bedroom apartment which was perfect for us. Eric and I shared a small bedroom with blinds but poor Adam had to sleep out on the sofa with no blinds covering the window. We started out the day by eating a wonderful fruit br http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-445308.html Finally a Vacation Eric and I have been working nonstop since August and were very ready for a vacation. We woke up very early Saturday morning to take the long plane ride across the ocean. Of coarse we could not sleep on the plane who can and ended up watching movie after movie. We arrived safely with our entire luggage at 9am Denmark time. Although we were very happy http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-445289.html Chris Today was our final day at Kernegaarden and the idyllic island of Fejoe. It was also the day of the music festival back on Lolland which Thomas and Gitte organised. They invited us back when we worked on their new house though we didn't realise we would be staying in Denmark so long We said goodbye to Anita Anders and Mathilde and set off in the car with Kai. It ended up being a mad d http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Sjaelland/Lolland/Bandholm/blog-445238.html Had my first full week at work and really enjoying it. Lunch is taken about 11.30am some people in my department have gone down at 11.15am. As you can imagine by 4pm Irsquom starving Therersquos a system for going around the canteen which I didnrsquot really get. But luckily I found the colour coded map to assist me in future lunchings. Im using the the menu to try and add some more words http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-444446.html Time for an update It has been just one month since I've updated yet it seems like it's been forever. Thus far I have just been living my life ya know I go to school I hang out with my friends and I try to live as much like a normal dane as I can. I've realized that in school every wednesday in my class is kagedag. aka Cake Day Every week somebody brings in cake. It's wonderful. Back http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Midtjylland/Aarhus/blog-444281.html Nog een weekje en dan gaan we de Noordse landen maar eens verder ontdekken De afgelopen week is dit onze voornaamste bezigheid geweest. Gedurende de Euroclass hebben we steeds de tijd gehad om aan onze projecten te werken in de 3 verschillende groepen. Met onze groep hebben we spellen en icebreaking games verzonnen voor de leerlingen van een Finse Hjskole en een jeugdgroep van 78 jarigen. Een http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Midtjylland/blog-444004.html A quick recap of October 2 The Olympic committee met in Copenhagen on Friday to decide which candidate city would be the host in 2016. The candidates were Tokyo Chicago Rio de Janeiro and Madrid. This is why Obamas and Oprah were in town. The Danes really like Pres. Obama. His arrival was the only thing on the news Friday morning and my cousins were almost late for school because they wanted http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Denmark/Region-Hovedstaden/Copenhagen/blog-443750.html