Day 177 - 178
Hiya´s!
We´re still in Denmark...and have spent the last couple of days strolling around this beautiful energetic city!
Definitely a place to come to if you want your spirits lifted!!!
And awww....guess what we saw? Yeah, you guessed it...
The Little Mermaid bronze statue!
Isn´t she divine?
She´s a sculpture made by Edvard Erichsen which was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen´s fairytale, The Little Mermaid. The famous Danish brewer, Carl Jacobsen (Carlsberg beer) gave it to the city of Copenhagen as a gift....and it´s a beautiful little statue sitting in the Copenhagen (Kobenhavn) Harbour..
So gorgeous...
We went to the hippie city called Christiania as well...which is a community on an island of it´s own just off the Copenhagen harbour...it was originally a social experiment (and still is) where a group of hippies took over the warehouses on the island so they didn´t have to pay taxes and basically live there as squatters....it´s a weird place..graffiti everywhere..and stalls and music and just looks like a huge commune. On prime real estate!!!
As we were roaming we also came across an industrial design exhibition that Greg was entralled with..got lots of ideas there..we spend a couple of hours trying to drum up ideas for our own marketing business! haha
Also saw the palace...Amalienborg Palace....and waved to Crown Princess Mary...hehe
And later, joined in the free concert that was raging on the old fort. It was put on for Ecco Walk for Life which had thousands of people participating and walking around Copenhagen. There are so many concerts here!!! No need to spend heaps on concerts that´s for sure..............i guess that´s a financial positive...entertainment here is free! Even if all else is a financial drain.
AND Gosh it´s busy here in Copenhagen!!! It must have been the Jamborree over the weekend for the scouts as well...there were literally THOUSANDS of scouts and cubs everywhere!!!! They even stopped traffic for about half an hour while they marched down the streets...honestly, thousands of them...bless their cotton socks!
We managed to salvage our budget by eating relatively cheaply! We didnt get to the main train station today Rob...as we went to supermarket and bought bread rolls and chocolate and that was dinner!!!!! And...because we had to sample the ´national liquid´we sampled Calsberg pilsner Beer and Tuborg Pilsner Beer. And they were quite delightful too!!!!
Tourist season supposedly finished today..the summer season anyway..so we´re hoping accomodation and food will get a bit cheaper so we can continue our journey!
We´re off to Sweden tomorrow......
More places to go and things to see....
One thing, as travellers, we haven´t done is meet people for more than a night or so....it can get very lonely. I was feeling a bit homesick this morning..if you could call it homesickness.....or maybe it´s a sense of missing family and friends to talk with....anyway whatever it is...i really loved the emails that got returned after i sent out some in a bid to make contact with ´home´. Thanks guys...:-)
It´s almost been six months that we´ve been away..and have only had each other as our everthing. And it´s been so easy. We are obviously just meant to be to be able to sustain a relationship like this, 24/7. I know for sure i wouldn´t have been able to do this with anyone else in the world.
I feel quite blessed :)
On that note...it´s bed time!
See you in Sweden!
xxx
