Copenhagen & Malmo

Very long day getting to Copenhagen from Berlin,  Had to take a 2 hour earlier train due to our train being rescheduled where we couldn’t get to bus on time to get on ferry across the Baltic Sea.  Waited at bus station for a long time after finally finding where the Flix bus actually departed from.   Then on the bus for 1/2 hour ride to the ferry to wait in line for it to arrive.  Drove on, then the mad rush of folks getting up the narrow staircase inside the ferry.   Lunch was burgers and fries,  then the announcement to get back to the car deck and we were on Denmark soil now, and the 1.5 hour bus ride to Copenhagen.   Uber to the hotel.  Got there around 6pm, we had left on a 7:30a train.   It was one of our longest traveling days so far.   We were going to sleep well that night… NOT.

Hotel AC Bella Sky was where we stayed.  Had probably the worst beds of the whole trip.   Talk about being warn out.  And its a Marriott Hotel.  The manager offered no help, stating they couldn’t possibly know what beds were warn out. She offered us nothing.     Knowing when there beds were warn out is precisely what a hotel should know as they are selling all of us a place to sleep among other stuff.

Bus and Metro stops were very close to this hotel even though it was out in what I would call the middle of nowhere.   And a few Grocery Stores were about a 5 minute walk away.

Tuesday  Walked to Metro, took it 1 stop to Orestad stop, then Trained to Malmo Sweden,   boarded a Bus to Castle Mill windmill,  walk thru garden to get lunch at Slottsträdgårdens Kafé,  walk around Malmo Castle then over to Technical Museum.   Bus back to train station and train ride back to Orestad and hop back on Metro to hotel.  Sweden was a nice clean place.

The next morning we headed out to find Freetown and along the way found a Church with spiral staircase outside.   About two blocks further we entered Freetown Christiana.   Its quite an eccletric place.   Hippies took it over a long time ago and still live there.   If it was in the states the developers would have burned them out by now.   As we were leaving the community its started pouring rain, we ran across the street to get out of the rain under produce store awning attempting to stay dry.  Once it slowed down a bit we got over to a bus stop and headed home.

 

Wednesday Midwest Cafe, round tower Furniture store, protest for Palestine where we ran into Tami and Scott while bussing to the Nyhavn area of town.  We got lunch at a Nyhavn tourist area restaurant then walked around some more and later took a metro back to hotel

 

Next day Kathy and I headed out to find Grundtvig’s Church (danish modern),  bus ride from hell on the way back with driving trying to fix door closure to fix air system,  then Stop buttons didn’t work and we missed another stop going to Elephant Gate & Tower,  walk to the Carlsberg Brewery to view the beer bottle museum.   Had to go thru the whole brewery tour which was underwhelming at best just to get to the room with the bottles.   Afterward we did get a big glass of Carlsberg 1883 ale, which was really good, but we were informed it wasn’t available anywhere else.  Bummer..

Happy hour that evening on the big marble table in the transit area between the towers, met the Man and baby from New Zealand.  That baby loved Tami…    He also Helped us out with the Birmingham/Manchester/Leads vs York question on the route.   Kathy got a Poke bowl that night for dinner.

Kathy lighting a candle for her brother who had just passed away.
Train from Copenhagen to Malmo Sweden for a day trip.
Behrn Pedersen?

Off to Hamburg Germany..