Hamburg & Copenhagen - June 17

After I finally slept, I woke up with enough time to change clothes, brush teeth, etc. before we pulled into Hamburg. I had made plans to meet Kasey at the main entrance to the station, but soon after I got off the train, I realized there were two equally sized entrances haha. But luckily we found each other without too much trouble, and we stored our luggage in the big lockers in the train station and headed off to walk around Hamburg for a bit. Hamburg was very pretty and right on the river, and the weather was great - we walked dowm the main road beside the river and Kasey showed me different places since she's been there before. I was still pretty tired, so I don't think I was really able to take it all in, but Hamburg was definitely nice.

Hamburg!

At 1:30 we got on a train north to Copenhagen, Denmark which was about 5 hours and very cool, the train even went on a ferry to cross between the two countries, which I've never seen before. There were windmills everywhere, which are actually very beautiful, and make Denmark completely energy independent, which is awesome. When we got to Copenhagen, we walked to our hostel, which was about 10 minutes. It was neat because so many people in Denmark bike, so they had an entire separate bike lane raised up from the road, and then the sidewalk was higher than that... so two curbs. Anyway, it was just neat because they were so accomodating for bikers, and so many people were biking... in nice clothes, in heels, in skirts, and looking beautiful while doing it. Ridiculous.

Our hostel was pretty standard, we stayed in a large room with 10 sets of bunkbeds, and ours were right by the door, which was kind of a bummer since we would be able to hear everyone coming in and out. We didn't had a lock on the door, because the hostel is open 24 hours, and the room was right across from the reception desk, so I suppose they figured they could keep an eye on things. They did have lockers, which we might have used for our valuables, but didn't since we just kept them with us. There was a bathroom down the hall and a shower room upstairs, and a small common area in the receptions... so that's hostel living for you! Simple and easy.

After we dropped our big bags off, we walked over to Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, which is like an amusement park/garden area... kind of hard to explain I guess. They have some rides, but also lts of restaurants and live shows, and from what we could tell, most people have season passes and come and go as they please. So we had a nice time there, eating cotton candy, watching a Thumbelina ballet and strolling around. From there we walked further into the city to look for dinner, and we ate a Turkish kebab place, and had enough food left over to make sandwiches for the train the next day. When we went back to the hostel around 11PM it was still light outside! Because we were so far north, there was about 19 hours of daylight! Which is very cool and makes you feel safe! It was hard to believe we were all the way up in Denmark!

Cotton candy at Tivoli!