Blogs from Copenhagen, Region Hovedstaden, Denmark, Europe - page 61

I have learned that Travelblog offers a cool functionality for displaying the travel route. It is based on Google Earth, but unfortunately you must have both Google earth and the map tool running simultaneously in order to navigate and mark the right destinations of your travel route. This is not too complicated as long as you have some obvious landmarks or citys to navigate for. However when it comes to Mongolia and other rural parts where cities are missing, this is quite a task to mark all places correctly. Nonetheless, this has been done and you can find the route map of the total trip below, where it has been split into three separate parts to contribute with the best overview of each region: Route map 1/3 Russia, Mongolia and China Please notice that the starting ... read more

Geo: 55.6763, 12.56811st March 07 around 6pmThis -http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0301/breaking 34.htm is going on right now on my doorstep. It's been building all day before kicking off seriously about an hour ago. I was out in the thick of it with my camera but it's quite hairy and easy to get caught in the crossfire especially as the riot vans have taking to barrelling through the crowd at speed to avoid the missiles and impromptu road barricades. This means that you have to watch the vans, the people dodging the vans and the missiles that miss the vans. One brave hoodie got carried away in a Tiananmen moment and came with in millimetres of being carried away in an ambulance as he severely tested the braking reflexes of riot van man. The extremely direct action margin keep melting ... read more

My Other is hunkered down for New England snowstorms. Huddled in protective layers. Hibernating fugitive. Fearfully guarding hopeful warmer memories, ‘cause I’ve never been a fool when my heart was on the line. Winter is different here. There is nothing to be overcome. And February has been dramatically wonderful. I think the “other” business stems from an overload of EU theory. I’m self-medicating; applying political hypotheses to a quasi crisis of self. Valentine’s was awesome (i.e. breakfast in bed and roses). We went out for dinner and climbed to the top of this old observatory for a truly spectacular view. Bizarrely I was on the phone with mum as I got to the top. Symbolism? Irony? I caught a cold too. It’s hard to tell who the culprit was too…so many runny noses. Luckily I’ve been ... read more

Planlægning Vi er så småt begyndt at få lukket aftalerne med rejsebureauerne og kigger derfor også på muligheder for at kunne holde familie, venner og klassekammerater opdaterede på vores oplevelse via nettet. Travelblog.org virker til at være det bedste sted. Nu får vi lidt erfaringer med at blogge inden afgang. Der kommer meget mere her inden da........ read more

I arrived in Copenhagen On January 9th. I was two days late to my 3-week pre-semester intensive intro to Danish course. In Denmark, the sun appears about one hour a day during the month of January. It rained for my first three weeks. I was terribly lost in my Danish course. I couldn't eat or sleep. But after week one was over, the exhaustion faded and the fun and excitement took over. Also, I met some fabulous friends during my Danish course. So I experienced a bit of culture shock at first and decided to write about it... Cultural Conversions When I arrived the verbiages and rhythms of voices were incomparable to any common sound. Not a single recognizable set of eyes, lips or arms was there to introduce me to the sunless weather. The first ... read more