June 24^th, 2012

Day 36: Krakow, Poland & Copenhagen, Denmark

I woke up early this morning to hope on a train to the airport in Krakow and was on my way to Denmark! I hadn’t really done any research on how to make it from Billund (which is Ryanair’s “Copenhagen” even though it’s 3 hours away), so I was planning on winging it when I got there. Turns out I had to take a bus for an hour to a train station, and then a 2 and a half hour train ride to Central Copenhagen. Woof. It wasn’t actually that bad though, and I made it to Copenhagen around 3:30ish!

And I finally met up with Stephen! It’s crazy that this is essentially the halfway point of the trip, but we have a very full and exciting month to look forward to! We stumbled around the train station for a whle trying to figure out how to buy tickets on the bus and where we’d be going, and after finally figuring it out, we headed out to our flat by the Zoo! It’s a good distance away from the city center though, so we’re probably going to look for a centrally located hostel instead.

It was raining buckets when I got here yesterday, but Stephen and I ventured into the center of the city for dinner and to watch the England-Italy match. As fate would have it, we ended up at an Irish pub just off of the main square, enjoyed some dinner and then had some beers during the match.

It was a really fun atmosphere and pretty much split half and half with England and Italian supporters. We also ran into a kid who was from Boston/BU rooting for England, so as the true Northeasterners would have it, we were for Italy all the way. By the end of the game (which ended in a shoot out), Italy most certainly deserved the win. We made our way back to the flat and called it a night!

Favorite part of the day: Meeting up with Stephen! Finally!!!