Radisson Sas Fredensborg Hotel Bornholm Rønne

... to make it light up! Of course I tried it out and powered a little section of lights on the tree. Then we walked down the shopping street that is closed to cars. According to Christel it is the largest shopping street in Europe. I didn't have a chance to change my money to Kroners so I did it on the street and 80 Euros was 550 Kroners or something, but It is so hard to wrap my head around how much everything is because its like 65 kroner and obviously I am used to the dollar so I ...

... for. And hopefully the ones who become leaders as they grow older.

Returning back to Copenhagen I was bracing myself for extreme culture shock. Finishing up a week of hanging out with Alex all day every day, and doing some relaxing, was definitely going to be significantly different from what we were about to walk into as soon as we passed through the hostel doors. I was so excited to see everyone and get started on all of the work ...

... in Canada. It was fabulous to see, because that’s how it should be. She had no helmet on, her hair didn’t get messed up. She had all her luggage and just biked her way home from the train.

When we arrived in Lund, the first thing we saw was a two-storey, hard wood floored, A-frame bike parking lot building. It was amazing. I tried to capture it in a few photos, but it was hard to get the ...

... of a grocery store; an older Danish couple stopped to chat with us and asked us if we were Americans. They apologized for the weather and talked about our biking destination, informing us that they had met another American from Washington, D. C. the day before and had given her directions. They were happy to talk to Americans, especially about Obama, but were sure to ask why we had come to Denmark.

Throughout my time in Denmark I noticed ...

... shavings on top. Then we walked down a wooden trail (that reminded me of the musical Mama Mia) to the beach. Dueodde marks the most southern tip of Bornholm and has some of the finest sand in the world. In fact, Dueodde sand is exported to be used in hour glasses!

I loved the feeling of the sand beneath my toes and enjoyed the scenery even more - it was a long white sandy beach with the green foamy water of the Baltic Sea. We filled water bottles up with sand to bring ...

BORNHOLM After a day at sea we arrived at the island of Bornholm, a place that until we signed up for this trip none of us had ever heard of. A more charming island you could not ask for. It is about 12-15 miles across with small coastal villages along the shore and well-kept farms in the interior. There were tidy fields of corn and new plantings of what was probably winter wheat, the stubble from the ...

Well, don't think I'm superstitious or anything (it being day 13), but today the weather was so bad we couldn't even dock. It had rained pretty steadily during the night and by morning the winds had picked up significantly. The sea became very rough with large swells and whitecaps. The Harbormaster closed the port at Bornholm, Denmark, so we went a little bit down the coast but it was still too ...

... also free and almost everything is open to roam around in...unless it leads to a big cliff/pit and is off limits. Anyways, we took lots of touristy photos. We also got some funny looks from people as they aren't used to seeing American tourists in this area. All the info signs were only in German and ...

... from all sides. It also has a decent view of the surrounding lands as well as plenty of arrow slits. It seems like defense was the foremost purpose of these buildings as the round building isn't very conducive to being a church. The set-up today is rather awkward with many pews having no view of the altar. The baptismal font is palced in the middle of the round part, which is surrounded by a fresco of ...

... bathrooms. We got there at about 7am, got some breakfast, and attempted to bike. Before I went no one had told me that Bornholm is hilly. Nothing in Denmark is hilly and usually when people talk about the great biking...they mean the flat land. To get out of Gundhjem it was a climb straight up. I didn't make it very far as I already wasn't feeling too well. So I went back down to Gudhjem and took a nice nap. I also didn't take ...