Radisson Sas Grand Helsingborg

... the way there so it wasn't so bad. Stokholm is a pretty big city but is pretty spread out since it consists of many different islands all connected by bridges. We stayed in a pretty nice hotel (not as nice as Copenhagen, but we were spoiled there) and dinner was ready for us when we arrived. Afterwards everyone made the "merry christmas" calls to their families, but I was already ahead of the game on that one! The next day in Stokholm we had a morning bus tour of the city, like we did ...

... to pay the tax. Another highlight of Helsinborg is a large statue of the Swedish general who chased the Danes from Helsingborg. He is positioned sitting on his horse and pointing his sword towards Denmark - the presence of the statue is a carefully planned insult to Denmark. After sampling some Swedish hot chocolate, it was back to Aalsgarde for some lovely Thai and Danish food prepared by Aunty Phen.

... he had to find his waz back all bz himself. Poor guz. But on the waz home, I learned alot about Aimee, and she was a reallz interesting person, someone that I trulez respect. The next morning, we all decided to explore the citz together. We started bz getting some fruit and water and having a picnic in the citz centre park. It was reallz fun, and Mango kept cracking jokes that were hilarious. Hes ...

... of a viking ship. Very well laid out. They have a very interesting prehistory which is a lot like the Irish - their bog people, jewellery and passage/stone tombs seem very similar. They also had a great medieval and renaissance collection. Wish I had more time to check it out! Copenhagen is very flat so EVERYONE rides bikes. Is cool. You get bicycle traffic jams. I think there are more bikes than cars! There are carparks everywhere for bikes. LOL ...

... statue behind her. With sore feet and blisters from the amount of walking we had done over the last couple of days, we headed for the train. It was full. We probably could have guessed this from the huge amount of people on the platform compared to the tiny amount of carriages, but we got on anyway, full of positivity in the face of near hopelessness. We were promptly shunted off by a grumpy looking guard, and were ...

... in a line of 30 people with only three counters open is another thing that drives me up the wall. I don't know why they don't have more windows open, there are 45 windows, but the majority of them are closed and the line is getting longer by the minute. Does it make the ticket people feel special? That someone would wait in line for 45 minutes just to talk to them? These are the kind of places where you really want to double check that you are in the correct line because if you stand ...

... a beautiful pedestrian street full of old buildings. The whole town was lit up at night too by twinkly white christmas lights....really pretty. Anyways this weekend should be a good one considering that it's Australia Day and there are a ton of Aussies that we all hang out with. There is apparently going to be a huge party at our place. I plan to sport Canadian clothes just to be a pain in the ass. haha. TILL NEXT TIME!!!

My last day in København arrived. As usual, Mrs.Madsen was not home as she had gone to work, but my breakfast was waiting for me on the table. The morning was sunny and my flight to London from the Kastrup airport was not scheduled before afternoon. So I deemed it best to pack straight away and then again go out and possibly see one or two things more. It was obvious that two and a half days in København were not enough to see the city. Who wants to ...

... mentor Maj and my landlord Tom have filled me in on the deets (cool word for "details"). The stories of Jegtvej are numerous in quantity, prolonged in length but superior in quality such that I cannot list all relevant facts here. Extensive tale vertically challenged: the local government decided they wanted to sell Jegtvej 69, the number of the building the youths frequented, and this resulted in some protests mid last year. Eventually these ...

... living on the streets since then. Though I'm not so sure about that. He had nice, clean clothes, clean hair and nails and a neatly trimmed beard.. did not look like someone who had been living on the streets and on the run! I don't think he was all there though! He acted like he was more our age than a 40yr old man so I think he just had some developmental problems but nothing too serious. He was a laugh and very much against authority figures like ...