Copenhagen, Denmark (Post #18)
Monday, June 27th, 2005The last couple of days we’ve been in Copenhagen. It was smooth sailing getting here on the train but then we ran into problems. Not to be negative but here’s an example of what can happen when you are traveling to unfamiliar cities in other countries. We had a difficult travel day once before and another one on Saturday. Once we got off the train in Copenhagen, we were in search of an Internet cafe because we needed to access our hotmail account to get our hostel reservation information (yea, I know we should have done that before we arrived – trust me, we won’t forget to do this next time). We used the Lonely Planet guidebook that showed a place on the map in the book but we walked and walked and searched and searched and couldn’t find it. So, after giving up, we walked back to the train station to find the tourist information place. We found that and were told to go to an Internet cafe. O.k., fine, so Mike went to the Internet cafe while Michele collected brochures and information as to how to get to the hostel. The tourist information place gave out a pamphlet that had the bus no. and stop on it for what we would learn was our hostel. Meanwhile, Mike had to wait for a computer but eventually got on one. Then he gets the hostel information and Michele has the directions provided by the tourist office. We search for bus no. 30. We find the stop and see that we have to wait almost an hour for the next one. Fine, we go into the train station and walk around. And we have our 32 pound packs on this whole time.
Michele Harmon