Halloween in Copenhagen

So we got to Copenhagen finally after a horrendous night of traveling. Since we could check in to our hostel (appropriately named ¨Sleep Inn Heaven¨) until like 3 pm there was no chance for a nap. Instead we freshened up and wandered around a cemetery nearby where Hans Christian Anderson and a theologian/existential philosopher named Soren Kierkegaard are buried. That was really quite fun wandering around the cemetery. Then we headed into town and kind of just wandered, didn´t really hit up anything too touristy; we were too beat for that. We did however, find an amazing Turkish buffet for dinner and stuffed ourselves silly. We never knew we liked Turkish food but I promise it was so amazing we are keeping our eye out now for it. After dinner we crashed in our dorm room with like 20 other people.

Days 2 and 3 in Copenhagen were a little more structured. We followed a walking tour that took us past the palace where the crowned jewels are held and the palace where the queen lives in the winter (as in now). We learned that the queen is married but he husband is not royal blood so he is a prince and their son is called the crowned prince and he is in his 40´s so when the Queen dies he becomes king even though her husband is still alive. We also learned they don´t even get to vote.

We walked through a military fortress turned park and saw the famous ¨Little Mermaid¨statue on the water´s edge. We walked down the longest pedestrian street in the world where there were at least 5 H&M stores and 2 Apple stores where we casually checked emails and did research for Amsterdam (next stop). We have found that most Apple (Mac) stores don´t care if you use there computers to go online if you look interested (and trust me, we will get a laptop from them asap) so we have been using them as a valuable source. Internet is usually around 2 euros and hour otherwise (3 USD).

We also went to a neighborhood called Christiania where in the 70´s some hippies and squatters gathered and made huts and lived peaceful happy lives until the city wanted to incorporate the land (or something like that). They put up a good fight and to this day they live in graffiti covered huts and hang out around flaming barrels to keep warm with their pit bulls and sell drugs ont he street. You are NOT allowed to take pictures here!

Anyways, Copenhagen was great but when we were there it was the start of a big holiday for Germany and France (rumor has it that it had to do with a saint) so all the hostels were booked so we could only get 2 nights. So we opted for another night train to Amsterdam even though we still haden´t found a place to stay there yet.

Nyhavn is a postcard perfect steet (or should I say canal) lined with too-expensive restaurants. We had frankfurter hot dogs from a street vendor instead!


¨The Little Mermaid¨statue that is oh-so-famous.


The entrance to the neighborhood of Christiania. The main dirt road down the center is called Pusher Street for obvious reasons.