The train went all the way east to Berlin during the night, before heading north to Copenhagen, so it ended up being a 16-hour ride! Luckily we were able to sleep through half of it! We found a café with internet (we highly recommend Barossa coffee shops) and looked for a room in town that wouldn’t force us to mortgage our house or take Lindsey out of college to work in the salt mines. We finally managed to find a room for $115 at a new youth hostel. The Generator Hostels began in Berlin and are now spreading across Europe. It was clean and relatively quiet – with simple and functional design.
We dropped our bags in our room and then went out for a walk. Unfortunately, we didn’t put on quite enough clothes for our walk in blustery coastal weather so we shivered our way through some parks and then the star-shaped citadel before heading back to our room to put on more clothes! After all, it is November in Scandinavia and we are heading even farther north!
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| Picnic in the park - note cheese and wine! |
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| View outside Citadel. The Little Mermaid (not shown) is on the coast to the left. |
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| Copenhagen Harbor |
Every country has some wonderfully unique things. In Copenhagen we were struck by the large carriers on the fronts of bikes - hauling children, groceries, and pets!
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| Danish family transportation |
And the other thing we noticed (but perhaps it was because it was a Saturday and the Friday night partying had been extreme) was that Copenhagen wasn't as clean as other European cities we have visited...
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| Ever present 7-11 with more trash than we are used to. |
Of course, the beautiful statues in the parks are a better remembrance of Copenhagen than the wind-blown garbage in the streets. And there was a much smaller "Occupy" movement - perhaps because it was colder and/or the citizens are overall quite happy!
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| Valkyrie on her horse |
Last evening shot of Copenhagen's favorite coffee shop.
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| Coffee and free internet - a great combination! |
Tomorrow we take the train to Oslo! The adventure continues...
great photos, Mindy!
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