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... to walk up an unfortunate number of stairs at the castle. They had an introductory video about the ships downstairs and the lady was kind enough to play the English version for me.... thankyou! It was so interesting how they found the ships, and then the process of restoring and rebuilidng them to be able to display them in the museum. We went for a quick walk around the ships and I marvelled at how 1000 years ago people could design such fantastic modes of transportation. From ...

... Copenhagen, and then were dropped off at this "open air" museum called Scansen. It was pretty cool, it had a few cafes, some neat shops where we watched glass being blown, various animal farm areas (sort of like a zoo), and many different places that offered a great view of different parts of the city. It was cold that day, but I still had a good time. We walked through the city center of Stokholm to get back since we wanted to see more of the city, but realized how cold we were in ...

... a great guz. But alas, I cannot saz all the things that we seen during the daz, onlz to saz that we seen manz beautiful touristz things, and hope that the pictures speak for themselves. Mango decided to grope the statue of Little Mermaid, and I had to follow suit. It was funnz while it lasted. We had walked all over the citz, and our feet were sore. But thez still let me guide them to the bars. Bad ...

... more pedestrians get hit by bikes than cars. And a lot of people have two bikes. The city is interesting. It has its very old centre and then the other side of the city is very very modern. Nice how they have kept it separate. The people are fantastic. Very friendly and their english is amazing. Apparrently they have 6 years of compulsory english at school. Had dinner at the hotel which was fantastic. The tour group seem OK. I am the youngest again bar one. :)

... to look for alternative routes. The alternative routes would have struggled to get us past the Danish border before dawn, so we decided to try and find a place to stay in Copenhagen, resigned to the fact that the train platform could well be our bed for the night. On top of this, we needed to get John back to Brussels by Saturday morning, when he was leaving us and heading for home. This would now mean getting the first ...

... the wrong line for that long there might be a murder in the train station. As it turned out, The sleeper cars were all full (they were expensive anyway) and we were just happy to be on any train at all after our first delay. We would now be traveling overnight to Hamburg and then catching a train from Hamburg to Copenhagen the next morning. The train to Hamburg was not good at all. I had flashbacks to the terrible nights on the Portugal train as we pulled away from the platform. There ...

... everything should have at least one week on disposal. But I had already known that so I hoped that my way would sooner or later bring me there again. To wrap it all up I decided to visit Botanisk have or Botanic garden. It was located relatively near and I saw it as a nice way to close my København sightseeing on this occasion. I crossed the Aboulevard street and entered Nørrebro, the part of the city lying north of Frederiksberg. It was a nice ...

... escalated and by mid this year around a thousand youths had been arrested. And by escalated I mean, well, escalated...but very much so. Police were accused of firing lethal amounts of teargas into crowds and other stuff happened to seriously exacerbate the situation. Violently expressed anger between the police and protesters led to (this is what Tom told me) masked activists from Holland and Sweden turning up and attacking police with batons. One ...

... and nurses and police officers, as well as government officials and almost anyone else! After a few hours in Copenhagen we had to make our way to Roskilde for work so we headed back to the train station and got a packed train to Roskilde then had to walk to the festival which was miles away! And it was raining in Roskilde too so we got wet on the walk to the festival.. Then we spent the next few days working.. but that story is in the next blog thing!

While in Denmark, my aunt Pia thought it would be a nice idea to take a day trip to Sweden, so we hopped on a ferry to see some beautifully blonde people in a port town. The ferry was called Scandlines, and it was a very pleasant trip. Directly after docking however, we were all thrown out into the mess that was the Swedish station. After reorganizing ourselves, we walked around a bit. Everyone was ridiculously fashionable and tall, making me feel like a short chick with ...