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Friday, August 15th, 2008

-The guessing game of "Will this water have bubbles or not" is getting a little old. -I have a new green Carlsberg pen to try to hold on to! -When my wallet was stolen in Athens along with my cash and credit cards I lost my Student ID. Luckily I made a copy of ...

No worries, I made it to Tivoli

Friday, August 15th, 2008

People keep asking if I went to the world famous Tivoli Park in Copenhagen.  The answer is, "Yes, yes, I did." Here's where I'll admit that travelling solo kinda stinks.  Amusement parks are not really that awesome on your own.  It's a quaint park, a few small rollercoasters and thrill rides. The really ...

Carlsberg: Probably the best beer in town

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

All brewery tours are pretty much the same.  They take you through the history of the company, they show you how it's made, they give you an image of what it was like to work there back in the day, they have a stable for their horses but don't explain ...

Cue the violin

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

So this is part informational, part cheesy.  Having some time to kill in Stockholm before my night train to Oslo I decided to go see a movie.  75DKK, the equivalent to 15USD... What ever happened to student prices?! I chose Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Now in Denmark, or at least at this theatre, seats ...

Quick Facts: Denmark

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Copenhagen seems to be a land of the free thinkers- with places like Christiania, Ungdomshuset, and Istedgade thriving. Christiania- a self-governing neighborhood covered 85 acres within the city limits of Copenhagen.  It started out as sort of a hippie commune and now has turned into an alternative living space where supposedly anyone is ...

There’s no need to write anything…

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

http://uk.zoo.dk/VisitZoo.aspx

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

- On two occasions Swedes I randomly started conversations with told me that if I had been Swedish they would have assumed I was drunk for just coming up and talking to them but since I was American it was okay because they "know Americans are crazy". (Swedes tend to ...