Blogs from Denmark, Europe - page 165

Hi everyone, how's things? Hope everyone had a chance to catch Live8 over the weekend, wherever in the world you happen to be. After Glastonbury, I've made it to Copenhagen to begin my traverse of Scandinavia (and to attend Roskilde festival of course!). I'm kind of excited and yet still have trepidations at the moment as I'm backpacking solo now. I do know I'm being spoilt though as the youth hostel I'm staying at is all shiny and new with lots of cool facilities. I'll let you know how I'm faring after I've been to a few dank and dingy ones. Apart from having super-swish youth hostels for travellers (gee, how was that for a segue??), Copenhagen is actually a really cool place to visit. Copenhagen is very well planned out, clean, safe, they have lots ... read more

A short stay for me in the Danish capitol. Due to limited hostel availability, I had to settle for only 2 days here, and sadly almost all of the first day was spent in transit from Amsterdam to here. I didn't do a whole lot of exciting things here, so hopefully the journal won't bore you all too much... My room this time had only 9 beds in it, thank god, but I got the top bunk. These bunks sit 3 beds high and it means that if I roll out of bed, I am falling about 14 feet to the floor, eek! Seems like a good hostel though, and I took an immediate liking to the group of 4 people hanging out in the room, easy going and friendly people. That night we were bored ... read more

Grüße von Hamburg! Finally! The flight from Seattle to Copenhagen was half-full at best, so I got an aisle-window pair to myself. Pretty sweet. Individual headrest-mounted movie screens are fab except you give up precious footroom for the box of hardware that controls them... so the extra seat was even nicer. All in all an uneventful flight, all 9.5 hours of it. The SAS live forward- and downward-view cameras are cool, and it was interesting how the crew engineered our sleep time to minimize jet lag (made us all close our windows for some artificial night during our all-daylight polar flight). I discovered Danish (and American) Vogons at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport. It turns out my connecting flight had been cancelled, but it took more than an hour (10 minutes after scheduled departure) for anyone at SAS ... read more

Forgive me Like all good contiki trips i was fairly drunk mast of the time, and untill i have the time to sit down and sort through my diary and update this entry im sorry that you are stuck with random drunken commentary From: fran the man Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:31 a.m. To: everyone Subject: im in copenhagen and im drunk for the second night in a roew! its all good! saw the little mermaid today shes bigger then i thought but thats only cos i heard she was lirttle. off to swededn tomorrow am having to get used to early morningsand all will have to listen to abba no doubt ant tell embarressig sorys about myself as is the norm on a contiki coach. we hAVE TOOOO many ozzies on this tour - ... read more

Hi from Denmark! I arrived here on Thursday afternoon, and so far Rachel (my roomie from USC who came to visit me earlier in Ireland) has taken great care of me. I got a taste of the town Thursday evening (Copenhagen), met her Danish host family (who seem fabulous), and took a walk around the lake in her own town (Birkerød, just outside of Copenhagen, but maybe still considered part of it, I think). Yesterday, we got up nice and early (Rachel had to go to class), and Rachel sent me by train to a harbor town just south of Copenhagen called Køge, which preserves a lot of the architecture and stuff of an old Danish village with timber houses and tiled roofs and an old church and things like that. It was really a neat ... read more