Hotel Absalon

... love to stay here our whole time in the city, but it will be important for Marty to spend his conference time in the hotel where the other conference participants are housed. After checking in, we did part of a walking tour, getting a sense of the city, ...

... blemish, I ended up missing work that day due to tiredness. Aw well, what a trip! Where I Stayed - I think it was Hotel Absolon (Tim will know, he booked it) Beers Tried - Tuborg, Carlsberg, Carlsberg Elephant. Nationalities Met - Northern Irish, ...

... não se pode ver nada além do azul mar e a escuridão do túnel. Em Copenhagen chegamos exaustos. Felizmente e acertadamente o hotel era perto da Estação. Estava chovendo e escuro (a primeira escuridão em muitos dias...), só saímos para comprar ...

... e a paisagem lindíssima ;) Depois do lindo jantar, pedalamos até a Estação Central para deixar as bicicletas e fomos para o hotel descansar depois do longo dia! P.S. O dia seguinte também foi em Copenhagen e o highlight foi a visita à ...

Well, once again I am behind on this blog.  This time I can't blame hotel internet.  This time, I was at a critical point in my mystery novel and had to finish it.  (It is set in thirteenth century Cologne and purports to solve the murder ...

   Just when we thought German trains were incapable of anything but perfection, our departure from Hamburg was bridged by a several hour delay before leaving for Copenhagen, our current destination. Unfortunately there was no chocolate coconut ...

Today, we took the train to Helsingør, a town north of Copenhagen, which has a Renaissance era castle.  The town has built up quite a tourist industry around the fact that the English word for Helsingør is Elsinor, and tour busses line up to see ...

For morning activities, see previous entry. In the afternoon, Marty went over his conference paper, and then we went out and located the building where his conference will be held.  We were pretty unimpressed, I must say.  It is a dingy ...

This was a beautiful day weather-wise and equally nice in terms of activities.  We started out by going to church at the Anglican church, St Alban's.  The service was largely what we are used to back home, and we really enjoyed the coffee and ...

Hiya, chums! I'm nursing a large bruise on my shin, courtesy of the bumper cars of Tivoli.  We, the delightful Mrs. Gam and I, went to Tivoli this evening and discovered that it's 'crazy week.'  It's the last week of the season, ...

Hiya, chums! Do you want to spend 10 bucks on a beer?  Welcome to Denmark.  I have encountered expensive beers before, but for an average, half liter draft?  This is harsh. Your 'contemplating sobriety' pal, ...