4 - Denmark (supposed to be Italy)

WEEKEND 4. Flensburg, Sønderborg, København, and Viborg.Enter TAYLOR and DANIEL (extras: JOYCE and JAKE, at beginning and at end).

Thursday

• Planned to visit Venice, Florence, & Cinque Terre with Joyce and Jake.
• Miss train from Metz. Miss connection to Dijon.
• At train station window, no options to Italy. So ask, "What about trains to Denmark?"
• Made reservations for early morning train to Särbrucken.

Friday

• At train station, found out about a national train employee strike. Train didn't leave.
• We catch next train to Särbrucken, missing all future connections.
• At Särbrucken took next train to Frankfurt.
• At Frankfurt got schedule to Flensburg.
• Arrived at Flensburg, met up with Karen (unbelievable awesome host).
• Drove to Sønderborg, to Karen's dorm.
• Had dinner with danish desert!! Sleep...

Saturday

• Karen brought breakfast.
• Drove to Copenhagen with Karen.
• Arrived at University of Copenhagen. Parked & took bus downtown. Double decker.
• Passed packed soccer stadium.
• Plaza with Swedish soccer fans.
• Walked up and down pedestrian street to Tivoli.
• Ice cream.
• Ate at Turkish restaurant: belly dancer with Taylor.
• Walked down river, saw unicorn building.
• At bus stop, bus doesn't even stop for us! Next bus in 20 minutes.
• Arrive at University of Copenhagen, met cousin, went to room/closet. We basically stayed at the janitor's room.
• Bathroom: at the basement.
• Sleep...

Sunday

• Drove to supermarket, got breakfast. Bakery.
• Parked and walked to square. Pedestrian street again and looked for ice cream.
• Went to the port.
• Saw crazy street brawl.
• Boat tour. Visited:
• New Opera
• Little Mermaid
• Queen House
• replica of David
• "Black diamond" building - new library.
• Hans Christina Anderson's house.
• Cathedral with spiral outside steps. (Unicorn building?)
• Ice cream to car.
• Drove to Viborg (broken GPS). Karen's home town.
• Met Karen's parents & saw house.
• Danish dinner:
• spectacular danish meatballs
• potatoes with parsley cream sauce
• salad with house tomatoes and cheese
• and for desert: danish desert
• Visited Viborg flying club.
• Dad got on airplane but it was too dark
• Saw the german flight stunt team
• Back to house and slept.

Monday

• Breakfast: Rhut Brut and danish cheese, Mom's jam, bread.
• Drove around Viborg:
• saw crazy high schoolers
• oldest church building (1,000 years old)
• train station for tickets & grocery store
• Drove to Sønderborg, picke up stuff and went to port, having about 20 minutes before leaving to catch train.
• Getting off at the port, locked keys in car.
• Panic.
• Call Danish locksmith.
• Arrives 15 minutes later, & tries everything to unlock the car. 10 minutes later, finally, pulls down window and gets the keys.
• Speed to train station, where we miss the train!!!
• Drive speeed to Flensburg, to meet up with the train at the next stop.
• Goodbyes in car, run to train, and catch it!
• Flensburg -> Frankfurts
• Frankfurt -> Hamburg
• Hamburg -> Strasbourg early morning on Tuesday...almost didn't wake up to get off train.
• Meet with Joyce and Jake.
• Breakfast in Strasbourg: Joyce had a blast (haha) of chocolate baniers.