Copenhagen
June 19th, 2008 Posted in After Arrival, News
From the 17th early morning till the 18th in the evening we visited Copenhagen. We started with waking up 1 hour to late, so we left at 7 in stead of 6 in the morning. We (Jago, me & Gintare) drove to Copenhagen with a small detour of 300km to the Møns klint. This cliff with a top height of 143m is really the most amazing part of nature in Denmark. after a few stairs upwards we got a very nice view of the sea and the cliffs. After this we decided to have a look at the sea, so this was another load of stairs to go down and up again.
After another session of driving danish roads at speed we made it till Copenhagen around 15:00. Before we went to the hotel we visited the Elephant Gate. This was in the industry zone, at the Carlsberg Brewery. Around 15:30 we then made it till the hotel. We could park close to the hotel and the rooms were quite nice. Around 16:30 we then took the car to visit the outside of Copenhagen. We first attended a church with a very nice tower, but it was closed for Restoration, so we could only see the outside. After attending the marketplace we went to Christiania. The hippy town inside Copenhagen. This hippy town really looks funny. everywhere is graffiti, the roads are mostly sand and there are no cars inside. In the town is a nice weed smell and you can see a lot of hippies and youngsters hanging around. This was certainly a point to visit in Copenhagen. After hippy town and some dinner we went to see the famous “Little Mermaid“. It seemed she got dressed in a little bit of White paint by some vandals, which made it maybe a little more interesting. I cant see the specialty in this thing, it is just a small statue on a rock, completely outside the center of Copenhagen. Nothing special really…
After an hour rest in the hotel we went to town again to see some nightlife (on a tuesday evening). Walking through the main street was nice, there were still quite alot of people (students) outside around midnight. In Herning you are completely alond outside after 22:00. There were very much light advertisements on the buildings. We visited a bar and after went to bed around 2. In the morning we started our Copenhagen visiting part 2 after breakfast and checking out in the hotel. At 11:30 we were in the “Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek” museum. A museum with art from Ancient Egypt, Greece and the roman empire, the ancient Mediterranean and a painting collection of France and Denmark. After running around in this museum for one and a half hours, we decided it was enough, it seemed you could be there for a whole day if you wanted to see everything. For me the Greek and Egyptian things were the most interesting, we skipped the French and Danish painting. The second day we moved solely by foot. We went from the museum to Nyhavn via the old stock exchange. Nyhavn looked nice but not so amazing as it looks on the pictures. Just a nice place. Besides the special colors of the buildings, Denmark really doesn’t know a thing about architecture. (Churches is something different, but houses…). From Nyhavn we walked to the Royal Palace and the Marble Church. From across the water we could also see the Opera House which looked quite new. We were at the church at 14, but there was a guided tour till the top of the church at 15, so we went for lunch and came back to the church at 15. It was nice to have an overview over Copenhagen from a tower. it also was clear how small Copenhagen really is. No high tower buildings at all. Besides churches the only high tower was from the attraction park Tivoli. This is an attraction park in the middle of Copenhagen. Really strange place to have an attraction park 
At 16 we had to walk through the main street back to the car which was parked at the hotel because Gintare had her bus to Vilnius (Lithuania) at 17:40. At 16:50 we finally made it till the car, and at 17:10 the bus arrived at the meeting point were we were waiting with the car and the luggage. Putting my love on the bus is really not a nice thing to do, but besides the thoughts of missing her, there are also the great thoughts of having her, and the ones that I will meet her again in July and August in Vilnius.
We went back home after dinner and at the big bridge between Fyn and Sjælland we stopped at both sides to look from the bottom. we were there now anyway so why not stop and have a look in stead of just driving home. I had seen the one side before, with my parents, but now i saw the other side too. it was nice to visit.
Around 23:30 we arrived at Birk again, well, not at birk, it is now known as Empty Birk. Only a few students are still here. Our last week started as well…