June 26^th, 2012

Day 38: Copenhagen, Denmark & Malmo, Sweden

Today, we decided to go to Sweden. The fact that you can take a 25 minute train and be in another country in Scandinavia is just crazy. But! We woke up, got ready, got some DELICIOUS danishes for breakfast, and then hopped on our Sweden-bound train!

After a short ride, we disembarked in Malmo, Sweden. Malmo is a gorgeous little town; I think the best word to describe it would be ‘charming.’ We paid a visit to the tourist center, got a few maps and suggestions, and headed out to explore for a few hours. After some wandering, we stumbled upon a dock on the canal that was just calling our names. We laid down for about 45 minutes and took a nice nap in the sun! After yet some more wandering around Old Town, to the castle, and to the famous turning tower, we got back on a train to Denmark. 

Our dock!

Naptime :)

The castle

We waited in line for a bit to buy our train tickets to Hamburg for the next day (which was an entertaining experience altogether, between a guy buying about 3,000 tickets and spending 40 minutes at the window to drunkards running from side to side trying to figure out the line). After our tickets were successfully booked (1^st class, might I add), we headed outside and again, indulged in some street vendor hotdogs, this time ordering a French hot dog that just looked funny. Nonetheless-delicious!

photo cred: Stephen!

We headed back to the hostel to do a bit of research on Germany and accidentally ended up taking a short nap. Afterwards, we were finally able to secure some of the public bikes and pedaled back to Christiania to do a bit of shopping and hang out with a beer or two. We also grabbed falafel while we were there for dinner!

Finally, we hopped back on our bikes (which had the 20 Kronor coin missing thanks to some drunk Asian man wandering Christiania with a plastic fork) and headed down the coastline to The Little Mermaid!

After a bit of fun there, we didn’t’ realize how late it had gotten due to the lack of sunset here in Copenhagen, and decided to head back to the hostel. We grabbed a bottle of wine to split, and relaxed in the lounge downstairs before we called it a night.

Favorite part of the day: Christiania; it was a nice day so when we went this time it was a lot more lively and entertaining. I could definitely go back there again and again!