First Stop: Copenhagen!

Well it's been a while since my last post... But I am now in Europe! Copenhagen is amazing. :)

DAY 1 || Aug. 4th/5th, 2014:
I got on a plane from SFO to LHR (after sleeping for an hour and a half) and the flight was about 11 hours! I didn't get much sleep, just watched most of two movies (The Amazing Spider-Man and Billion Dollar Arm) and then I finally watched Divergent! (side note: Theo James as Four is hot, sorry Scott) All three movies were pretty good. The food was alright, not the best... But then again what can you expect from airplane food. I got this chicken pasta with warm salad and bread, and a brownie for dessert!

They came around again later with ice cream sandwiches which I would have gotten if it weren't for the fact that I got my period in the middle of the flight... -____- That sucked. And also I slept for maybe an hour and a half. Anyways, I got to London at about 7am and I got to Copenhagen at around 12pm. LHR is a little different than what I'm used to so I thought it was very weird. Eh, whatever, I could get used to it. I waited for my bags and after I got them, I waited for Michelle to land and get her bags. I finally found her after like 30 minutes and we exchanged some USD for DKK to get our train ticket. We took the M2 to Nørreport Station and went to Hotel Jorgensen. That was suchhhh a struggle. A nice lady named Marie helped Michelle with her bags while we tried to figure out where the hostel was. It took a while but we finally found it! We put our bags in our room and went out to explore a little bit. We went to the botanical garden (botanisk have) first and it was really nice, though I think I prefer the one back home haha. The botanical garden also had statues of Greek figures which was pretty cool.

After the botanical garden, we decided to just walk around for a bit, and we found the University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet)! From the outside I didn't really know it was a school because it was literally right next to the gardens but now that I think about it I guess it's not the main campus so... Whatever haha. We ended up having pizza for dinner which was alright, I miss the pizza back home now ): After dinner we went to visit Rosenborg Castle and Kongens Have, which is like a garden I guess. There were a lot of people there but it was soooo pretty.

We headed back to the hostel afterwards to get some much needed sleep! But then it was too hot and stuffy so I woke up earlier than I wanted. ):

DAY 2 || Aug. 6th, 2014

We got breakfast at Brioche Dorée at Torvehallerne, which is kind of like a marketplace where you can buy meat, something to eat, or even soaps! There's also fresh produce there, in addition to what I can only describe as permanent food trucks. We got a croissant, a sweet pastry with raisins that was pretty bomb, and a chocolate croissant! We got them for 45 DKK, which is like $8, so it wasn't too bad. 

We had a pretty big day ahead of us since we were gonna walk the whole time until the end. We started going through the park to go see Tivoli Garden. The park was really really nice, and it wasn't too big or too small so it was pretty perfect. It took a while to get to Tivoli, and we went on Hans Christian Andersen Blvd and saw his statue! There were so many people surrounding it trying to take a picture... I took mine from across the street haha. We finally made it to Tivoli and there was a long line to get in. We weren't planning on going in anyways but we just wanted to see what it looked like since it's the second oldest amusement park in the world! 

After seeing Tivoli, we made our way to Christianborg Palace. It was a pretty long walk and it was kind of hot and sunny so it took a little longer than it should have... Anyways, we passed this bridge with a really nice view and the national museum on our way to the palace. What I liked most about it was the garden and fountain in the back haha. 

We went to Nyhavn after seeing Christianborg Palace! It kind of reminded me of Fisherman's Wharf but with not as many attractions. We got a Danish hot dog from there that had pickles on the top with some crunchy onions or something. It was pretty good!

We walked around some more and went to the church that was really close. The church was a really nice church! We went to Amalienborg Palace after staying at the church for a little bit. The square was really big and I even saw some soldiers walking around! 

After that, we headed towards the little mermaid statue, or den lille havfrue. On the way there, we passed by a really cool fountain and church that were close to the statue. There was a crowd of people standing on the rocks in front of her but I managed to get a picture! One guy even climbed on top of her and put his arms around her and took a picture like that. He even took a selfie haha, it was the best part of the day.

We then took the bus back to the hostel to rest our tired bodies after a looong day of walking.

DAY 3 || Aug. 7th, 2014
Today we didn't really do much. We went to Christianshavn and the freetown of Christiania! We took the subway there and it was only two stops away and took maybe 10 minutes to get there. We walked around and went to the top of a church, called The Church of Our Savior. It was one of the coolest places I've been to. The organ on the wall was magnificent, so detailed and very very large haha. They also had organ music playing to set a mood I guess. There were also statues of angels and it was just amazing. Oh! And for 30 DKK (student prices) you can climb up the tower to see a view of Christianshavn and see Copenhagen from the top! We didn't do that until after we had lunch though.

Going to Christiania was an interesting experience... You couldn't take any pictures going through the Green Light District, but there were handmade bracelets, shoes, jewelry, and clothes that you could buy. I didn't get anything but it was pretty cool. There was a pretty intense mural on a side of a building:

After going to Christiania, we decided to grab some lunch and climb the tower. We stopped by a shwarma kind of place and I got a durum? I guess it's like a wrap, but it was pretty good!

After climbing the tower and walking around a little bit more, we headed back to the hostel and just relaxed and packed for the next day since we were flying to Amsterdam to head to my final destination for the next four months! But before that, I had to get some dinner. I got some pad thai from one of the permanent food trucks I mentioned earlier. It was waaaaay too expensive... It was equivalent to about $14 USD, which is ridiculous! But I guess it was alright as a last meal In Copenhagen haha.

Bye Copenhagen! Hello Maastricht :)