TRIP REPORT – Californiacation! Hanging with the Little Mermaid – Copenhagen
Kevin’s Note: Adam is back again after a little break… and today, he’s talking about Copenhagen. Over to you Adam.
Index:
- Californiacation – What, where, why, when, who, how
- When your life’s in a mess – National Express coach 737 High Wycombe-Luton Airport/London’s tinniest airport – Luton
- New Cuddly Ryanair – Flight FR7404 London Luton-Copenhagen
- Hanging with the Little Mermaid – Copenhagen
- There’s a 5AM? – Copenhagen Airport
- To Fly, To Serve Croissants – Flight BA811 Copenhagen-London Heathrow
- When one Breakfast isn’t enough – Chiswick
- Running the Duty Free Gauntlet – Heathrow Terminal 3
- The American way! – Flight AA135 LHR-LAX
- I hopped off the plane at LAX… – Los Angeles Part 1
- Hollywoodland – Sights of LA – Los Angeles Part 2
- I hopped on the plane at LAX – Los Angeles Airport
- The American way to London – Flight AA136 LAX-LHR
- Californiacated – Heathrow and review
Denmark’s new harsher approach to asylum seekers had been top of the headlines when I left the UK and I was keen to be as close to the front of the immigration queue as possible.
Thankfully, we left the plane down stairs using both doors (I suppose the last row can have its advantages) and we were allowed to walk straight into the terminal.
Well – it’s still better than Luton…
Sadly my friends weren’t quite as quick on their feet as I was and ended up at the back of a two flight immigration queue, meaning it was around 30 minutes before they finally cleared immigration. As in T2 – Ryanair’s domain at Barcelona – clearing immigration still leaves you airside and we were in fact a long, long walk from baggage reclaim.
In fact, by the time we arrived the Edinburgh flight had been removed from the arrivals screens, leaving us to guess which reclaim the bag was on.
Eventually, we guessed correctly and headed towards the Copenhagen Metro.
Copenhagen is a pleasantly compact city with an efficient and modern metro system. Hence we were standing outside our lodgings for the evening a mere 20 minutes after leaving the airport.
At this point, the inevitable consequences of only having had 2 hours of sleep were beginning to kick in and I needed to rest my head for a few hours.
We had elected to stay in the Generator Hostel Copenhagen, however as I am now spoiled by many years of fairly good travel, I demanded that we get a private room between the four of us.
This proved to be the right decision and gave us a fairly pleasant (and quiet room) on the top floor.
I failed to take any photos of the room until we had made a dreadful mess of it, so here’s one I pinched from the hostel’s website.
Basic, yet fully functional – Image, Generator Hostel Copenhagen
After a bit of a rest, we set out to explore Copenhagen.
My parents are still financially scarred by a trip to Norway they took my brother and I on back when I was about 10. For this reason, I had insisted that we try to avoid spending too much in Copenhagen lest we erode the entire benefit of our ex-EU fare in one night.
Thankfully Copenhagen has many free museums, which are excellent (and centrally heated). A few of my poor attempts at arty photography now follow.
I think their architect had seen the British Museum extension…
I know the feeling mate…
Having culturally improved ourselves, we then did the opposite with a snowball fight in a public park, before heading over to Seven-Eleven for dinner (cost of a takeaway sandwich, crisps and a bottle of Coke £8).
Feeling we had cash to splash, we headed up to the hostel bar for a few games of pool, none of which I won.
Photo of the bar taken by a superior photographer – Image, Generator Hostel Copenhagen
Despite being fully aware that our alarm would be going off at 4:15 the next morning, we stayed awake chatting until at least 11:30.
The consequences of that decision will become clear in the next part of this report….
Next: There’s a 5AM? – Copenhagen Airport
Will Adam and friends wake up in time? Will they discover there’s a 5am? You’ll find out next time!
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