Hotel Loeven Copenhagen

... went to the boat tour place...not being able to read what it said (everything is pretty much just in danish with little bits of english here and there) I just handed it to the girl and asked 'Can we use this here...I have no idea what it even says' she laughed at us and off we went on our boat tour.

We saw the new opera house which cost 500 million dollars to build...a little extreme but it looks nice from the outside lol. The little mermaid (Denmarks ...

I was planning on spending four nights in Hamburg, but I decided to cancel the last night because The National was playing in Copenhagen on that night. My route north would take me through Copenhagen, so I decided to head there a day early to see the show. After the last night in Hamburg I struggled to catch my train in the morning, but got there just under the wire. One hour of the journey was on a ferry, which was news to me ...

... 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

... need to get out of this garage once and for all. They told me there was another door, but no button to open it...it worked as a sensor. We just needed to drive up to it very slowly and it would open. Hoorary! We were out. We dropped Mårten and Kalle back at the boat and we headed out of Denmark back to Sweden. After 3 hours of trying to get out the car this morning and Ina and Mats trying to solve the problem the night before we were so excited to be out of Denmark. Viva la Sweden!

... were heading to the exhibition building and would I like to go. Off we went (a group of 6!) and found out that we had booked into the "sleeze" part of town! Between the hotel and the exhibition centre we encountered numerous sex shops, strip clubs and even at 10am a couple of prostitutes! Interesting place! We joined in the competors briefing before Craig and I decided to go on a canal cruise. It was beautiful! The day was very sunny although not warm ...

... most days. But yeah the first day we didn't do much. Day two we woke up and went for a city walk. We saw the Queen's palace, the little mermaid statue, army barricks and a ton of statues scattered all around the city. It was a nice walk but it seems like the wind never dies down here so I was not disappointed when a couple of JP's co-workers rang us and told us to meet them for dinner at the restaurant he ...

... that afternoon, a young buck from Exeter, UK. I'll briefly mention what classes are like here for all you prospective exchangers (my cool slang for exchange students). Essentially you have one class per unit you take. This class consists of two 45 minute sessions with a 15 minute break in the middle (though one of my classes has three 45 minute sessions). These classes are called Lectures but are more like Australian tutorials, only longer and with short periods ...

... was the most time in the past three weeks that I'd been by myself (so far I'd been by myself a total of 45 whole minutes!) Because I'm a big ol' corn dog, I decided to start singing "All by Myself" as I walked to the bus, and then started laughing as I walked. Luckily there was no one around ... or else I would have looked like some sort of crazy lunatic! Once downtown I walked to the square near Tivoli, and grabbed a delicious bacon wrapped hot dog for lunch. Then I ...