Hotel Skansen Färjestaden

... no kitchen issue with this hostel is costing me a fortune. I also got to listen to some excellent street musicians. There was the guy on the bagpipes (dressed for the part), the two young guys on the guitar and cello playing great songs and the solo violinist. What I have found is that the Danish aren't particlarly nice, if you ask them something you might just get your head bitten off. Today however, I found that many of the students are very nice though.<br>

The weekend has been so relaxing! It's my first time to go to a Spa-hotel and I thought it was liberating to be able to go around wearing robes ;) massage, gym, sauna+freezing cold ocean+hot tub, swimming pool and the food was delish... I really have no complains at all!<br><br><br>

... Tycho Brahe). The picture of Princess Mary was as large as the wall that it was on and truly lifelike... she is such an attractive person :) From here we went (in full company of the wonderful rain) down to Røskilde - home of the massive festival of the same name, but more importantly, home to 5 1000year old Viking ships. After having a lunch which cost more than 3 nights accomodation in Naples Farfar took me into see the ships while Farmor had a coffee - she has bad knees and ...

Visited Kronborg castle in Helsingor. Blown away by the conditions the soldiers had to put up with. Also saw a statue of "Ogier the Dane" down in the depths of the castle. The legend goes that he is sleeping down there and will come up to protect Denmark in times of national crisis. Same theme as King Arthur with England. Awesome statue though.

5th Day 9/8/07 Today it is our free day, but in the morning we have a meeting to prepear the host family party and think about what we can cook and what kind of entertainment we can do. We talked also about our leaving and we can say that strange to talk about that because anybody don't want to back. For a lot of people after this meeting, sleeping was the first ...

... Today was very hot. The train ride back to Copenhagen had no air conditioning however we did get a warm breeze when the train moved. Needless to say we took a shower when we got to the hotel before we went to dinner in the Tivoli. We ate at a "Viking" restaurant where we had reindeer and elk for appetizer and I had a large steak and fried potatoes and Julia had ...

I was debating whether or not to make an entry for this trip. We went to Malmo becuase it's the closest sizeable Swedish city to Lund. As we found out, there's not that much to do there, but it was worth one day-trip I guess. We saw the "Turning Torso" building that Malmo is so proud of, walked around the city in freezing cold, and saw the castle.

... and saucers, coffee, cream, and light biscuits. She placed the tray on a little table, drew it up close to my bedside, and calling out "Klokkeen fem!" withdrew. "Now," said Schonbeck, who had raised himself up on his elbow in the bed on the other side of the room, "you had better make as good a breakfast as you can. What clothes have you in your portmanteau there?" I told him each article. "Put them all on; put on everything you have. It will be none too much - take my ...

... cannot be helped. There's no mincing the matter, or using fine language to soften it; no vague reference to "utmost penalty of the law," or "prosecution with rigour," or any ambiguity of that kind; but a sentence as plain as the ten commandments - "Do this, and thou shalt be hanged." I recollected too what a Swedish captain had once told me respecting their law against forgery; - "If a man skal take some little piece paper vot he skal not take, and write some ting pond at ...

... rip offs, as you would be. Using the negotiation skills I have picked up over the years, i.e. breath alcohol in his face, we got a cheap price. ******, the room seemed bigger and that is all I remember Friday Tadek was screaming for me to get up. I awoke with a sore head, and stumbled out. Problem was, that another David, who was the best man, was staying in the same place and it was him who was needed. Now Lucy and I have not really been drinking, and we ...