Copenhagen is nice so far. I think it ranks right below Stockholm, and a little above Oslo, on my Scandinavian city ranking. We've gotten out a bit more, and we've been able to see more of the city. It's fairly nice, but seems to be somewhat expensive... The public transportation is fairly convenient, the streets are nice, wide and open, and the buildings look nice.
The Danish Krone is really strong right now, about 5.8 Kroner to the US Dollar, and 7.5 or so Kroner to the Euro. For reference, the Swedish Krona and Norwegian Krone are about 10 Kr to the Euro and 7.5 to the dollar. Luckily for us, there's the Øresundsbron, which takes you from Copenhagen to Malmö, Sweden in about 30 minutes. After wandering about in Copenhagen for a bit, we headed over to Sweden for swing dancing, and we used up the last of our Swedish Krona.
The swing dancing was pretty good; we were treated with a live band, and free admittance, since we promised to tell all of our friends to go dancing with them if they're ever in Malmö or Copenhagen. There were a few familiar faces that we had seen in Stockholm at the Snowball, which was fun. The live band was pretty fun, too, and quite a pleasant surprise. It's sort of amusing to think that two nights ago, we were dancing in Oslo, tonight we were dancing in Sweden, and now we're in Denmark. It sounds a lot less impressive if you look at a map, and realize that it takes 45 - 60 minutes to get to Copenhagen from Oslo by plane.
I'm uploading my pictures to my picasa account, which you can view here. Eventually, I'll sort through them and put the good pictures up here.
Anyway, it's late. Time for sleep!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Copenhagen
We made it to Copenhagen!
In Oslo, we stayed at that youth hostel. For Copenhagen, we decided we wanted something a little bit better. I found a few apartment listings, and we're renting a room (with use of bathroom, kitchen, internet, etc) from some guy's apartment. It's much nicer, and a much better value.
We visited the Viking Boat museum this morning in Oslo, pictures should be up soon... Or maybe after I get back. We'll see.
Lots to do in Copenhagen. Haven't had time to do much yet, but they have a really nice Metro system, or at least it's made a really good impression so far. They have these two Metro (light rail / subway / tram) lines, that run every 2 minutes. Very convenient, and from what we can tell, very well utilized.
More soon!
In Oslo, we stayed at that youth hostel. For Copenhagen, we decided we wanted something a little bit better. I found a few apartment listings, and we're renting a room (with use of bathroom, kitchen, internet, etc) from some guy's apartment. It's much nicer, and a much better value.
We visited the Viking Boat museum this morning in Oslo, pictures should be up soon... Or maybe after I get back. We'll see.
Lots to do in Copenhagen. Haven't had time to do much yet, but they have a really nice Metro system, or at least it's made a really good impression so far. They have these two Metro (light rail / subway / tram) lines, that run every 2 minutes. Very convenient, and from what we can tell, very well utilized.
More soon!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Big Update from Norge
Hello world.
Travel to Stockholm was fairly uneventful. I flew from Minneapolis to Detroit, and from Detroit to Frankfurt without much happening. I arrived in Frankfurt on the 26th of December, and if you know anything about Germany, you know that they shut the place down for holidays. The day after Christmas, or the second day of Christmas to the Germans, qualifies as a holiday. Luckily, I knew about this ahead of time. I ate some Döner Kebab at a little shop, and ran around a very empty Frankfurt for a few hours before waiting around at the airport, and flying off to Sweden.
After arriving in Stockholm, I rushed to the Arlanda Express, which is the "high speed train" that goes from Stockholm's airport to the city of Stockholm. I pulled into the hotel around 9:30, met up with Lindsey, and we got all of our stuff situated. Our hotel was the Clarion Sign, which was a really nice hotel, that we got a fairl good deal on. It also came with free breakfast buffet every morning. We, however, had very very restricted internet access
Over the next week or so, we had tons of lindy hop classes (4 -5 hours / day), and tons of dancing at night.
The next leg of the trip was the train ride to Oslo. The Norwegian and Swedish country sides look pretty much just like Minnesota.
We're in the cheapest youth hostel in Oslo, and looking for something maybe a little better... Our room mates from last night were from the Czech Republic, and the ones that showed up today just happen to be from Duluth and Uptown. Funny coincidence, huh?
Pictures from Stockholm and Oslo will come soon!
Travel to Stockholm was fairly uneventful. I flew from Minneapolis to Detroit, and from Detroit to Frankfurt without much happening. I arrived in Frankfurt on the 26th of December, and if you know anything about Germany, you know that they shut the place down for holidays. The day after Christmas, or the second day of Christmas to the Germans, qualifies as a holiday. Luckily, I knew about this ahead of time. I ate some Döner Kebab at a little shop, and ran around a very empty Frankfurt for a few hours before waiting around at the airport, and flying off to Sweden.
After arriving in Stockholm, I rushed to the Arlanda Express, which is the "high speed train" that goes from Stockholm's airport to the city of Stockholm. I pulled into the hotel around 9:30, met up with Lindsey, and we got all of our stuff situated. Our hotel was the Clarion Sign, which was a really nice hotel, that we got a fairl good deal on. It also came with free breakfast buffet every morning. We, however, had very very restricted internet access
Over the next week or so, we had tons of lindy hop classes (4 -5 hours / day), and tons of dancing at night.
The next leg of the trip was the train ride to Oslo. The Norwegian and Swedish country sides look pretty much just like Minnesota.
We're in the cheapest youth hostel in Oslo, and looking for something maybe a little better... Our room mates from last night were from the Czech Republic, and the ones that showed up today just happen to be from Duluth and Uptown. Funny coincidence, huh?
Pictures from Stockholm and Oslo will come soon!
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