København, Finally...

Ok, so here goes...my last post was the day that I left, which was as I said then, frantic.

I finished my laundry, packed my bag, made it to the metro as fast as possible, 3 minutes to spare. Got to T-Centralen and booked over to the Arlanda Express, thinking it left at 6 (this is at 5:50), thankfully, it departed at 6:05, I had 8 minutes to spare. Got to the airport and to check-in with 10 minutes to spare, through security to the gate with the same 10 minutes left before boarding. Stressful...I usually like to be places early. Flight was good, I napped. Upon arrival in Copenhagen, I hopped on the train to town, wandered a little in downtown (I think people take down all of the street signs around the train station so they can watch tourists go in circles), found a tourist information place that was closed...with no maps outside. jerks. I broke down and asked eventually then almost ran to the hotel 'cause Brian and John were waiting to have dinner until I got there (it's now about 10pm). We headed out shortly thereafter, taking a cab up to a recommended neighborhood (they wanted to check out a place called Rust), nothing was really open for dinner, but we found a Kebab shop (not the usual definition of kebab really, comes in a pita or similar things) but turns out it was the best Kebab I've seen so far in Europe. Rust was ok...maybe we were there early, but 11:30-12:30 seemed like things should liven up in there somewhere. it wasn't too crowded inside and the line outside when we left was huge. I hate the weak dollar.

We then hopped in a cab and went to Christiania. Went to a bar, fun music, not really the crowd that Brian and John were looking for I think...I was cool with it. We saw the remnants of the drug market, it's now more of a regular market...mostly. We decided to move on after walking around a bunch, getting a good a feel as possible for the place, might've been fun to come back in the daytime. So we jetted back to downtown, wandered around for a while and decided that a late night snack was in order. Ask me about the BK incident. it was funny.

Saturday: Up bright and early and out the door by 10:30...this is where my photo album starts, walking through nearly all of Copenhagen's main city section until nearly 4pm when we headed back to the hotel. Shopping district, cool church, some govt. buildings, a really cool stone dragon, the little mermaid and the opera house. It looks better in the album. really. After a nap, 'cause we're old, it was time to pregame and find dinner. We found a highly recommended Indian restaurant, did take-away because it was reservation only...delicious...and so was the pregaming. We decided to head out to yet another party area of the town, to a club called Vega. very nice place, very cool...and we were there before they started charging a cover and stayed until things started picking up quite a bit. We left to hit up the red light district...which was cool. I guess. it's where I got the pic of the needle depository!

Sunday: we slept in, decided since it was lunch time that we may as well have lunch. Indian buffet...not the best idea. that meal fought back for hours. We wandered the town some more, everything was closed closed closed. boooo. got more pictures, said goodbye to Brian as he went to catch a train, wandered more into Fredriksberg, and eventually stopped at a bar/cafe called Obelix for a beer and to just rest our feet. Then it was finally time for me to start the long trip home...

Thoughts: great city, low buildings, old buildings, wide streets, a lot of parks and plazas, clean, fun, nice people. Copenhagen gets an A- (minus for everything being closed on sunday!)