So Brandon's last entry ended off with our last day in the Netherlands...I will bring you all back up to date with our adventures so far in Denmark.
We flew from Amsterdam to Copenhagen on the 13th. Unfortunately for us, our flight was actually on the 12th. We missed it byexactly 24 hours. Lucky for us, a flight with the same airline was going to Copenhagen, so we bought ourselves some more tickets (only 90 Euros each, not bad!) and hung out at the airport for a couple hours until the flight left. We arrived in Copenhagen that evening, and had an adventure on the Danish train system up to Humlebæk, where we are staying with one of Brandon's family friends.
We had a good night's sleep, and then Dorte (the person we are staying with) drove us to Roskilde, where we went to the Viking Museum (Viking ships are so cool!) and then to Roskilde Cathedral, where lots of dead people are. It was really neat.
The next day, we took the train to Copenhagen. We pretended to sleep on the train so that the ticket lady wouldn't check our tickets, because we have no idea how to do it and we stamped them all wrong (we've got it figured now, though). Our sleeping ploy worked, however. In Copenhagen, we hopped on a tour bus and went to Christiania, which is a weird hippy freetown within Copenhagen. You should all look it up, it's pretty interesting. Then we walked to a train station because we somehow missed the last tour bus of the day by being 5 minutes early. We then met up with someone that Brandon knows and had dinner with them at their apartment, then went back to where we are staying (which is actually in Langstrup, a little country farm type town, but it is right by Humlebæk).
Then yesterday, we did nothing because we were so darn tired (travelling makes me sleepy, but I love it anyway), so we just read our books, went for a walk, ate food, whatever).
Then today, (dad, you'll love this), we met up with Preben (my farmor's cousin, for those that don't know) in Helsingør, and he took us to Kronborg, which is Hamlet's castle (Shakespeare, ya know). That was pretty cool, seeing as I have my degree in literature. Then he took us to his place in Hornbæk, which is way up North, and he and his wife made us a wonderful Danish lunch (start with the fish, then go to the meats, then the cheese) and Akvavit was also involved, but not too much. Then Preben showed us around Hornbæk a bit before dropping us back off in Helsingør. From there, Brandon and I hopped on a ferry to Sweden, because, why not? It is only a 20 minute ferry ride. So we wandered around Helsingborg in Sweden for the evening, and we went to Kärnan, a tower. It was pretty neat. Then we got some dinner, and caught a ferry back to Helsingør, and then a train back to Humlebæk (the journey back only takes about 40 minutes!)
And now we are going to pack up our stuff, as we are leaving this little country house, and heading to Århus tomorrow morning, which is on Jutland. We will be there for tomorrow and the next day, then we will go to Odense on Funen, then back to Copengagen for a couple days before going back to the Netherlands.
I am not so sure how much internet I will have until we go back to Leiden, because we do not have people's computers to borrow anymore. So you may not hear from Brandon or I for a while.
At any rate, it is rainy in Denmark, but I am still having a wonderful time!!!
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