Hello from Denmark!!
Well let me sum up my first couple days:
I arrived late Friday afternoon in Copenhagen after a short delay in London. It was nice to spend a few hours in Heathrow browsing all the shops. I didn’t sleep on the flight from New York even though my plan was to have a short nap. Instead I stayed awake and watched an English movie called “The Duchess”. It was ok, basically a time killer. I did have a short one hour nap from London to Copenhagen which I think helped enormously. After Camilla picked me up we headed to her flat in Fredriksberg. She has a sweet cozy place on the 6th floor (which is higher than most Danish apartments so we can see pretty far) which would be called a studio in America. Once I was settled we decided to take a long walk around the lakes. Copenhagen lakes are home to many birds but by far my favorite is the swan. I don’t think I have ever see so many swans in one place in my entire life. They are beautiful elegant creatures and it is a special treat just to watch them. Danish people however are very used to seeing them and I think Camilla got a good giggle at seeing my reaction to them. Even though it was quite cold out I think the exercise was just what I needed to conquer my jet lag. I went to sleep the first night with no problems, I woke up a couple times but went right back to sleep.
Sunrise over Copenhagen!
Saturday some of Camilla’s girlfriends came for a visit and we listened to some music and enjoyed a few drinks. Later that night we all rode our bikes to a nightclub called Vega. It was fairly empty at first but really started to fill up around 1a.m. Although I feel Danish people can be friendly once you get to know them (especially if you are American) they aren’t exactly eager to talk to people at first. While at the bar I asked Melina and Louisa (Camilla’s friends) if they wanted to chat up some fellas. They looked at me completely horrified at the thought of going up to people we did not know and speaking to them. However after some prodding by myself Melina and I went up to a few guys and introduced ourselves. Once I broke the ice, people were very eager to talk to me and once Melina and Louisa saw it was an effective way of meeting people they dragged me around to every good looking guy they wanted to meet and said ” Hi, my friend is American and she wanted to meet you.” I didn’t mind I was happy to help out. After the night was over we had to bike about 3km back to Camilla’s flat. Now biking sober is not so hard but when you are a bit drunk you really need to focus (I will write more about my bike riding experience in Copenhagen later). Needless to say I made it home safely and we spent the next couple days relaxing (well Camilla had to work a few days) and preparing for the holiday.
