We arrived in Copenhagen at 8:05 pm on Friday August 26th. Now it felt like we were really getting somewhere. Neither of us had ever been to Scandinavia so we were both excited to take on some new territory.
The next morning we headed out to explore some of the city. It was another exceptionally hot day as we walked past Tivoli Gardens, which is basically an old fashioned amusement park dating back to 1843. We walked around City Hall Square as we made our way to Kastellet Park and then on to the unusually, makes me wonder, famous statue of the little mermaid.
We walked along the river past the many marinas and hung out down by some large swimming pools next to the river. We ate our lunch here as we watched locals enjoying life, picnicking, swimming or lying in the sun.
We finished off our Copenhagen day by dropping by the "Carlsberg Exbeerience." Although they offer tours of the famous brewery we opted to just stop by the visitor centre and have one of my favorite beers in the Carlsberg garden.
We made pasta for supper back at the hostel before we went out again to take a few night pictures.
The next day things got interesting...We left the hostel at 9am, walked to the station and had a croissant and coffee for breakfast and waited for what we thought was our 11:00 train. As it turned out it was actually 12 noon. For some unknown reason the times on our reservation form were different from what was on the actual tickets. We had been only looking at the reservation form. We were already a little worried about making it to Hjoerring in time to make our connection for a train to Hirtshals where we would catch our boat to Norway.
Anyway, things seemed to go from bad to worse once we figured out there was a major power problem with the trains in Copenhagen this day. Due to this, our already later than planned, overcrowded train began to get behind schedule. We figured our Norway plans were in serious jeopardy by the time we were asked to make an unexpected train switch in what seemed like the middle of nowhere Denmark. We were told our current train ran out of fuel. Anyway this new fuel filled train must have picked up just enough time for us to try plan B which was to try taking a taxi directly from Hjoerring to the ferry terminal in Hirtshals. Lucky for us the plan worked and we were able to check in just in time. That evening we were on our way to Norway.
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