Bella Danica Tarnby

... the train, so I was really glad I understood Danish.... until they repeated it in English anyway :( It was funny because they told us to leave all our stuff on the train which an English guy had a bit of a problem with. "If we were back in England we wouldnt be allowed to do that.... what if there was a bomb in the bag???". Paranoid much? It was so exciting being on the ferry as I had a lot of memories of being a little girl with my family on this ferry. I remembered the same ...

... became clear that there weren't enough seats on the train. Many seats were reserved and those who hadn't bothered reserving were left to scramble for the limited unreserved selection or find objects other than seats on which to sit. The people who boarded at Berlin Spandau (the next and final stop before Hamburg Hbf) who didn't have seat reservations had no chance. The express leg to Hamburg Hauptbahnhof was uneventful; no time was made up during our running, we arrived ...

... earth. Best bit is it is free for all Danes - BEAUTIFUL!! The fairy lights were in the trees and its quite beautiful with the street stalls selling hot roasted nuts and crepes as you walk buy followed by the classical music of a busker outside a medieval church. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I went to northface during the week and bought a snow jacket as what I got in London is not enough but it costs a lot so no more shopping for me for a while. (But so worth ...

... could tell). Due to the terrain there seems to not be a bus service down to Germany.) The internet proved very frustrating when it came to finding transport from Copenhagen, and we found the easiest way to organise travel was to physically buy the tickets from the train station itself. This needs to be done at least half a day before you plan to depart, or you might find yourself in town for another night. Off we set for another overnight train ride through Germany to Holland.

... to our bikes...and a big one at that! We stopped at the local Netto's, spent our monopoly money and sat by the sea eating cheap cheese and some awesome chocolate cookies, yumyum! Now for our final task of the day, finding our couchsurfer! This proved difficult with no map. We have been told its a 40 minute cycle, but 627 greent statues, a rock concert, a gay pride parade, a few wrong turns and 5.5 hours later we finally ...

... clinking the entire time I went up). After I was sick of losing money and not winning a big stuffed panda bear, I took off for the tourist bureau because Denmark is built for speed and thy name is kite surfing. My goal is to do some type of extreme sport in each country where possible, or at least something that I won't be able to do quite often back in the states. Though there are a lot of facilities on the west coast of Denmark, there isn't much in ...

14/5-15/5 Now for our final destination in Denmark, Copenhagen. This is a lovely city, and probably one of my favorite big cities so far. It's a big city with a small city vibe. The buildings are lovely and it is set on a clean blue harbor. We stayed at a camp site about 9kms out from the city centre, and on the first afternoon we road in for a quick look around. We had asked the campsite lady if the road to the city was hilly, and she laughed and said ...

... island that Christian IV had established as a commercial centre and military buffer for an ever expanding city, it was as if I had returned to one of those smaller Danish towns that I had visited earlier. Without any dramatic cultural-historical monuments, cut through by canals as if we were in Amsterdam or Venezia, Christianshavn gave out an impression of a very pleasant city quarter. The impression was probably helped by again a very sunny weather. In any case, it seemed ...

... Today we did take a bus tour of Copenhagen. It would've been nice but I was at the back of the bus and couldn't hear the tour guide. Then we got off and walked awhile but I accidently brought my heavy backpack with me as no one told me we were walking far. And the tour guide ended up being really boring anyway...basically telling us the entire history of his life. On the cool ...

... found a restaurant we thought was the right place, but it wasn't open on Sundays, so we ended up at a cafe at the end of the street. The food at the restaurant was good, but I think Reky enjoyed the view of our hot waitress more than anything else! The conversation at supper was also fantastic, and all in all it was a great end to a great day. After supper we headed back to the meeting spot and were bussed back to the hostel. At the hostel we all hung out ...