Hey All. I realize that I am way overdue for an update, but life in Europe, as a wanderer is busy. I am taking advantage of Liam's hungover time right now though to get a post up.
I believe that I left off in Copenhagen. After leaving that post we went to the Glyptotek (which may not be exactly spelled like that), which is a phenomenal museum containing all kinds of really interesting things. It had some Egyptian mummies, some French Impressionism, lots of sculptures (of which my favourite were the ones sculpted by Rodan), and other such magnificent things. It was so large and contained so much that we actually couldn't make it through the museum all at once. Or at least I couldn't; I was getting sore and hungry so we did leave before seeing the whole thing, but it was HUGE. That, and I felt like I had seen enough to be supremely satisfied.
In the afternoon we took a fairly lengthy walk down to the part of Copenhagen which holds the Little Mermaid sculpture and an old fortification. Despite Liam's insistence that the Little Mermaid was very unimpressive (which is kind of true), we were in the area so we went to it. It wasn't overly amazing but it is kind of cool, as it's a sculpture sitting on a rock out in the harbour, as it were really a mermaid.
The next day we were planning to go to the National Museum of Denmark. Imagine our disappointment when we found out that, randomly, the museum is closed every Tuesday. Since we were leaving that day, not much could be done, so instead we took a walk through Denmark. It was a very nice walk; Copenhagen is a great city.
The very same afternoon we met up with Sarah, Liam's friend from his trip to Iceland last year, who took us by bus and ferry to Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark at about 250k. The city is very quaint and modernized, worth going to even just for a wander. Anyway, the first thing we did upon arrival into the city was go to a brew-pub/restaurant, which had great food and drink. I had some bratwurst and sausage and a light beer, and it was very satisfying. I also did not know I could enjoy saeurkraut that much. We were pretty tired so we didn't go out. Instead we grabbed a few beer and drank it at the waterline by Sarah's dorm.
The next day was probably the most frustrating in our whole trip so far. We got up a bit early so that we would have time to do laundry at a laundromat. When we got there, though, we realized that we didn't actually have any cash left, so we set out into the city, at this point without Sarah, to find an ATM. We came across 2 after not that long, but they were both offline for some reason. We then proceeded to get lost in downtown Aarhus for about 40minutes - 1hr. I consider myself to generally have a pretty good sense of direction, but the twisty streets in Europe really throw me for a loop. Anyway, after finally making it back and doing our laundry, we took our clothes out of the dryer a little bit earlier because we thought we were going to miss our bus if we didn't. Turns out we missed it anyway. So now we had our full backpacks in the heat, with some wet clothes, and we were supposed to meet Sarah at a certain time. So, we wandered around trying to find a taxi, which was surprisingly hard.
Anyway, we eventually got there, and all was well, and went into the museum by Sarah's work. It was a great little museum tucked away in the woods that had some really interesting stuff, such as a man preserved in a peat bog for 2000 years, and a huge archaeological find of Roman and Scandinavian weapons and other things from an ancient battle. That night, we met up with Poul, another person from Liam's trip, for a drink in a nice little pub. We went home a little bit earlier where I got my dose of American culture by catching up on the tv show How I Met Your Mother with Sarah before we all went to bed. The next day, we took the train to our next destination, Dusseldorf!
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