Copenhagen

So – Copenhagen.The drive from Ripsa to Copenhagen was nice – the rain held off for a little bit despite what the weather man forecast. The drive along the lake was nice, and we arrived to cross the bridge between Sweden and Denmark at about 2.00, which although expensive to cross was not really all it makes out to be – maybe because you can’t see the bridge as you cross it.

So we found our hostel quite easily, and checked in. Now as you will hear I am now the almost hater of hostels. We were going to try and find the Guinness book of world record museum, which was poor. It had a bit of information that was impressive, such as the tallest guy in the world, and the fattest guy in the world, but also contained a fair amount of useless information. But it filled in the time and then we had some so so thai food from a karaoke bar in the city… We then went back to the hostel for a few hours before going downstairs to use the internet – which was patchy at best. What you may know or not know about the brand of hostel called Generator is as follows. It is a hostel brand that is focused around partying – you would be forgiven for thinking that it is a university bar – cheap drinks, people everywhere drinking, and stupidly loud music all over the bottom floor. This transcended to our room, which entailed a bed that was too small for us, people coming and going at crazy times of the night, and the thump thump of the music coming through the floor. But – we weren’t in bed that night – it was the next night that we were subjected to that – as well as a snorer in our hostel room – which you will well hear about soon. Our first night in Copenhagen we met a whole range of people – other travellers from Austria, Belgium, USA and Germany. The problem with a hostel is that you don’t get to meet people from the actual country! *sigh* but the night was fun, we stayed out late talking about german history of course, and aboriginal history and the sorry day ect etc.

The next day we got up and took a walk around the city – seeing the harbor, the domed church and the resistance museum. It seems that Denmark wasn’t much better than Sweden in terms of war time ‘resistance’ they had a go but the government allowed them to come in and occupy the country as long as they didn’t do anything bad – ok that was a lie, but they did seem to have quite a peaceful time in Denmark compared with other countries. The Germans would have smashed them if they resisted, but is that better than letting your country be taken over by tyrannical murderers. But anyway – the Danish resistance museum was decent to read about – also some sad last words of people that were murdered that sabotaged some German train lines.

The next place we went to – and the highlight of the day was going to a restaurant in the city - which sold some amazing food, my pasta with chicken was really really good, it was 3pm for dinner, but we didn't care. Stomach doesn't know what time it is - just whether or not it is hungry. So we made it back to our hotel, and planned to sit around and then go downstairs again - we didn't make it there, we were pretty tired, and we wanted to sit on our computers for a bit - well we got more than we bargained for. A huge snorer! like a massive chainsaw style guy who not only snored, but snored on his side! no rolling over time for us... a 1-2 hour sleep night... wow..

The next day we went to a 'free' tour in copenhagen. I don't think that they should advertise it as free, because you are expected to give a donation, it should be - tour by donation, I don't mind paying for a service, but don't like false advertising.. Me and andrew left early - so it was free for us haha. Take that free service! We then went to a place called christriania - or something like that. Now they say that it is the worlds only free city inside a city, used to be an old military base - a bunch of hippies went there and took the land as their own, now they sell dope there and sit around south east asia style. For us, it was a dump. A dump in the middle of a city that isn't seen anywhere else in the world (apparently) - To the people of copenhagen, there is a reason that this isn't found anywhere else in the world!!! - but it is worth a look for those people who are visiting.

We also went up the tower, and then went to the tourist office in copenhagen - nice place - go here if youa re just arriving - screw teh research - just go there. But anway, we then went and chatted to a bartender in an english bar for a few hours - and then tried to catch some sleep (at this point we were running on about 5 hours sleep over 2 nights). It was better - but not great.

The next morning we went to see the football (soccer) stadium of copenhagen - boring, we couldn't even get it, so we went to the carlsberg brewry. Now - if you are thinking of going? DON'T!! we have been to many many breweries - the carlsberg one was very poor - limited info, and well... just not very interesting.