Ascot Apartments Copenhagen

... served with "apple slices" as the translation calls it but really they are basically apple fritters, minus the frying - more like baked. SO good! And you eat them with jelly and powdered sugar. After our snack we walked around a bit more and biked back home. We chilled for a little and then Christel and Evan made dinner of rice, corn, peas and jalapeños with meat all mixed. It was spicey but good. We wrapped our little presents and then biked 10 minutes down the street to Christels ...

... known statue), lots of old buildings, the royal yacht, old naval ships and old lighthouse boats that are now docked and have been turned into house boats! (Dad you'd definitely love to live in these!)

The tour was about an hour long, and once we got back we went for a walk around. We ended up walking quite a ways, I hadn't even realized...but luckily we're really good with directions haha. I bought a pin (my second one YAY!) and we found a grocery store ...

... I got to my hostel I saw a Mexican friend I had made in Hamburg, Mauricio, and he said he would come try to get tickets for the show with me.

I don't know why, but there are no scalpers in Copenhagen. The show was sold out, so I waited around at the front of the venue for at least an hour and nobody seemed to be selling. It didn’t help that the venue was inside an amusement park and that there were tourists all ...

... mothers must be so proud. Oops, sorry I got sidetracked. So in Nyhamn we took a canal tour and saw some amazing sights such as their national library, dubbed the Black Diamond, the sculpture of the Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen), and their new opera house. Todd and I missed Alan and Sophia adding in their extra insight with the tour as they did last time, but the weather was beautiful and the kids seemed quite content.

~B

alas, i was only there for a day. not enough time to see and appreciate its beauty. will come back though some other time. but i have to thank one antique shop in copenhagen for my my very nice set of trinkets for my wealth (such little wealth mind you). they were all very beautiful and very useful.

... with the main one taking place this week, and I enjoyed some of that. The group on the stage today was somewhat interactive, and incorporated some elements that you would see in a production of "Stomp". It was a beautiful, sunny day - a perfect jazz picnic in the park! Rosenborg palace - I decided to go with the same tour guide because he was so good. I tried but couldn't score a student discount for entry into the palace ...

... a pretty happy man. Today's incident made me think that if I ever planned another lengthy trip like this again, I would do some research and figure out which international flights get over-booked the most often. I would then select those flights to be on my RTW ticket and just maybe I can recover a majority of the ticket's cost while I travel if those flights do indeed end up being overbooked again. Somone should try it. The odds would work for them. When I went to pick up my ...

... had not been the best day for sightseeing. Rådhus Pladsen looked grey and gloomy in spite of the pretty big number of people there. Of course, it was logical to expect that of all Danish cities the largest number of tourists was in København. And that in turn as a consequence had a large number of Danes, as well. But regardless of all, the fact that I had to take shelter any time I wanted to consult city map, that I had to wear my raincoat under which I felt too warm and ...

... in these old army barracks starting their own little city and the government just let them stay... and hell, its been so long now that its hard to kick em out, although i think the government is slowly trying to end its existence... its pretty much a self sustaining village... with restaurants, markets, workshops, and living areas... i think over 700 people call it home... theres a lake and some forest area with ...