Monday, August 11th - Copenhagen, Denmark - Day 4

[EDIT] Please ignore the masses of junk comments in this post. It seems as though a computer program has found my site and decided to post as many crappy porn ads as possible. Apparently they think its an effective form of advertising. Luckilly I have managed to get free wireless from the place I am staying at so I am able to update the blog a little easier today. With the wedding over, we were on our way back to Copenhagen by train until Wednesday, when we fly back home to Toronto. We got back into Copenhagen at around 1:30PM and checked back into our apartment we were staying at, then decided to go and walk around downtown to do some shopping. The first few days we were here we somehow ended up walking around either really late at night, or really early in the morning, so a lot of stores werent open. It was interesting to be out and about in the middle of the day this time to see just how busy it really gets here. I found another piece of over sized litter which I thought was really funny. I also had a good laugh at the beer ad with the topless girl who's nipples are just barely covered by a strand of hair. Its pretty interesting to see how the standards are a little different here for whats acceptable. The other day we saw a newspaper with a preview on the front page for a topless Sunshine Girl. I didnt end up buying anything since almost everything is really overpriced. I saw a pair of Converse shoes for about $100 which I thought was just a little excessive. After walking through the downtown area we ended up in an area south of where we are staying and found a movie theater where we decided to finally go and see the new Batman movie. The tickets were $20 each which at first I was really mad about, until the movie finished and I was almost ready to pay $20 more just to see it again. If you havent seen the Batman movie yet I will just say that it is one of the best movies I have ever seen, even though its so cheesy how he talks when he is in his costume. Add Comment (3)

Friday, August 8th - Copenhagen, Denmark - Day 2

It appears as though Jet Lag is a huge bitch. I woke up at around 430AM and wasnt able to fall back asleep again. Luckily I had picked up a Johnny Depp triple feature DVD from Wal-Mart the day I was leaving for $13 which came with Benny and Joon, Edward Scissor Hands, and From Hell, so I started watching the extras for From Hell until Vanessa woke up at 530. At 6:00AM we decided to head to the downtown area to try to find a coffee shop with internet access so we could arrange a time to meet up with Chris who was going to be driving us to Holbaek for his wedding on Saturday. After walking around for about an hour with no luck finding internet access, or a coffee shop, we found a 7-11 that was open and we were told our best bet for finding an internet cafe, or anything that was open for that matter, we should walk to Central Station which was a 10 minute walk from where we were. We found our way to Central Station and managed to get on the internet to check emails and arrange a time with Chris to meet up later in the day, then we headed back to the downtown area to try to find something to eat. It turned out that nothing was really open till 10:00AM so we had a lot of time to kill until we were able to get some breakfast, so we continued to wander around finding interesting things to look at. While we were walking around I also noticed that all of the bikes that I thought werent locked at all were actually locked up with these cool little locks that almost every bike in Copehagen seems to have which bolts on behind your back brakes and just slides through your wheel in between the spokes and stops the back wheel from being able to turn. After getting some breakfast and checking out a few shops, we headed back to the apartment to pack up our things and get ready for the 1 hour drive to Holbaek. Before arriving at the apartment, we walked through a huge conservatory which was just across the street from where we are staying. We arrived in Holbaek around noon and got ourselves checked into the Strandparken Hotel. I was very happy to find out that we had internet access which means I can try to update this blog a little easier than while I was in Copenhagen. We will be here in Holbaek until Monday morning when we are heading back to Copenhagen until Wednesday when we fly back home. I will try to update the blog a few more times before we go back home with some more fun photos. Add Comment (10)

Thursday August 7th - Copenhagen, Denmark - Day 1

Im going to try to make this a semi legitimate travel journal here. We had a later flight from Toronto on Wednesday which left at 9:10PM so it gave us a lot of time throughout the day to get some last minute things done. I used that time to actually pack my bags, as well as anything else I should have done at least a few days before. I also made it a point of going and picking up a new Canon SD750 Point and Shoot camera so I wouldn't have to carry my big camera around with me all the time. We took a cab to the Toronto Airport around 6:30 and got there nice and early to make sure everything was in order. Our flight left on time and we were on our way to Copenhagen with a short stop in Iceland. The flight to Iceland took just over 5 hours in which time I watched 5 episodes of The Simpsons, and 3 episodes of Two And A Half Men. Those were our only options as far as TV shows go which was fine because I pretty much spend most of my days watching those shows anyway, so other than being in a really uncomfortable chair with no where to rest my head, I felt right at home. As the plane was landing I was feeling a little odd because it was 3AM in Toronto so I was really tired, but the sun had already risen in Iceland and it was daylight outside. We were off to make our way through customs. Since neither Vanessa or myself have traveled to another country before, we really had no idea what to expect with going through customs and we were a little nervous. We managed to make our way through the Iceland airport to the customs line where they scanned our bags and stamped our passports. We weren't asked any scary questions or anything which was definitely nice. We pretty much had to go straight to our next plane with no real time to check out the airport and we were on our way to Denmark. As we were flying, I somehow managed to break something on my camera and I couldnt get any pictures of us landing in Denmark, even though it was so beautiful. We landed in Copenhagen at 12:30PM and quickly found a bank machine so we could get out some Danish money to have some cash to spend, then we headed to the train station to make our way dowtown to the place we were staying for the night. The first thing I noticed about Copenhagen once we got off the train is how everyone rides bikes here. Bikes even have their own lanes and streetlights. I kinda wish Canada had something like that. One other thing I noticed is that no ones really locks their bikes up here. There are just hundreds of unlocked bikes in piles all over the place. We got to the apartment and passed out almost immediately. We slept for about 4 hours then we decided to go for a walk to get something to eat. We found a nice little restaurant called Mama Rosa where we had some dinner then we walked back home. On the way back home it had started to rain really hard so we made our way to a 7-11 to buy some hot chocolate. Right now as I am typing this we are back at the apartment relaxing for a bit before we go to sleep. Hopefully I can find some internet tomorrow so I can actually upload this thing to the blog. Add Comment (10)

Monday, August 4th - Propagandhi

I finally had some time to process some of the photos from the Propagandhi show on July 27th. The show went really well and I had such a good time. Propagandhi are my favorite band of all time so it was definitely a cool experience watching them from the side stage. I even got a sweet setlist and its framed on my wall. Add Comment (1)

Monday, August 4th - Amanda Zelina

Here is a photo of Amanda Zelina. She is an incredible singer/songwriter/my roommate. Add Comment (4)

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