Hotel 9 Sma Hjem Copenhagen

Lyhyt välikuittaus, että täälläpä sitä ollaan jälleen koneen äärellä pienen hiljaiselon jälkeen. Kuten kaikilla vakavasti otettavilla kirjailijoilla, myös minulla on välillä tekstinluomisongelmia. Lupaan ryhdistäytyä ensi viikolla tekstin laadun suhteen, mutta nyt saatte tyytyä pieneen kuvagalleriaan normityömatkalta. Kaikille kateellisille siis tiedoksi, että yleensä työmatka kuluu tismalleen kuvien mukaisesti lentoasemilla odotellessa (oheinen kuva on tosin viime ...

... best to move on. I had pseudo-plans to meet up with my cruise roommate Mike and his 2 friends, Chris and Jim from NY anyway (side note: I truly love the fact that my phone works here, makes life so much better than the last cruise).

So, after telling some stupid half-lie that I was heading back to my hotel, and then doublebacking to the bar where all the cruise boys were at (Oscars), I finally connected with Mike and gang, probably around midnight. Now just ...

... moods. This time yesterday we had still been asleep in The Blue Palace after a 36 hour bender at Glastonbury. I looked out the window as the taxi sped from the North of London to the south. Normally we would never hire a taxi to get to the airport, but we had no choice. The flight was at 6am, and although there were night buses, catching one would have meant more stress and no sleep. Sleep at this point was priceless. We arrived at the airport and handed over 60 quid to ...

... with Andrea and her brother but after struggling through the weather to get back home I decided to stay in for the night.

JUNE 13

On Saturday I met up with Kelly and we walked around the Botanical Gardens.  It was so beautiful and I was glad that the weather had cleared up.  We walked around the gardens and went into the green house.  It was the the hottest I have been since coming to Denmark!  The main area of the green house was the "tropical rain ...

... Halloween called Fastelavn. Some towns in Denmark are renowned for their large Fastelavn festivities and parades. We played the traditional event slå katten af tønden ("hit the cat out of the barrel"), which is somewhat similar to a piñata, except that there is a wooden barrel, which is full of 'candy' (as every American called it) and has the image of a cat on it. Historically there was a real black cat in the barrel, and beating it was superstitiously ...

... their thatched-roofed houses-a lot like the english ones. They don't have sandy beaches so they build their own removable jettys out to a sandbar, so they can step off onto sand.The jettys can then be taken down in winter so they don't get destroyed in bad weather. We stopped off at Fredensborg Palace (the Royal Family's summer residence) to see the changing of the guard and to ...

... 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 ...

... of some kind, but all the buildings were relatively new and there were no signs in English to tell us what was going on. After some pictures we looked at a neat church and then wandered over to the little mermaid, but only because we were in the area! First, some background on the little mermaid... When we were on the bike tour in Berlin we spoke with three people from Copenhagen. The first thing they told us was NOT to go see the Little Mermaid. Copenhagen is very fond of its ...

... cartoonist/musician/sculptor/photograph er who oftentimes makes obscure and humorous pieces, and while his drawing style isn't especially technically refined there exists a certain resonance within his work that transcends the superficial borders of tone, colour and shape. What a great sentence, I should be an art critic or a Sentence Maker. Seriously though, it was a very enjoyable exhibition and it was refreshing to see some alternative ...

... out more. I also visited the church but it wasn't as fun as the latrine so click the photo album above if you want to see it. Other random things about Denmark: -Mannequins are everywhere displaying the trendy clothes, even on the sidewalks outside the shops. Sometimes you think it's a real person when you turn the corner. They also have very very realistic boobs and really pointy nipples on ...