København!
A room with a view
Beautiful Copenhagen
Oops!
Arrived in Denmark yesterday and was immediately confronted by this Finnish guy who was fascinated with our bike boxes. Apparently he and his friends just took off the handlebars and pedals and put them on the plane like that. He was relieved to hear that we plan on biking all the way to Greece because everyone back home thinks he is crazy for biking 300 km, but now he can tell people about us and seem more sane.
We put our bikes together in the airport without any problems and rode out into the sunshine. Our original plan was to stay in Copenhagen, but we couldn't find any signs for it. Instead, we found ourselves in a beautiful city called København. It's not mentioned in any of the tour guides, but it is a truly beautiful place and we were both very proud to have discovered something off the beaten path. All the roads have bike lanes, so traffic if never a problem. We spent the afternoon and evening riding around this undiscovered city.
The people here are eerily law-abiding. I watched a group of pedestrians wait at a red light for a minute without a car in sight. It was really weird, but I guess that explains why we've only seen one police car so far.
København has a great quality of life. We ate dinner on a pedestrian-only street and even the automobile-accessible streets often have more bikers than drivers. The city is clean, filled with parks and museums and its citizens exude a sense of prosperity. I'm sure it would be a great place to live if it weren't plagued by dangerous socialist ideas.
Today we're heading to Helsingor, Hamlet's castle, and tomorrow we take off on the bikes for the island of Møn and the real adventure/torture begins.
Tom
Beautiful Copenhagen
Oops!
Arrived in Denmark yesterday and was immediately confronted by this Finnish guy who was fascinated with our bike boxes. Apparently he and his friends just took off the handlebars and pedals and put them on the plane like that. He was relieved to hear that we plan on biking all the way to Greece because everyone back home thinks he is crazy for biking 300 km, but now he can tell people about us and seem more sane.
We put our bikes together in the airport without any problems and rode out into the sunshine. Our original plan was to stay in Copenhagen, but we couldn't find any signs for it. Instead, we found ourselves in a beautiful city called København. It's not mentioned in any of the tour guides, but it is a truly beautiful place and we were both very proud to have discovered something off the beaten path. All the roads have bike lanes, so traffic if never a problem. We spent the afternoon and evening riding around this undiscovered city.
The people here are eerily law-abiding. I watched a group of pedestrians wait at a red light for a minute without a car in sight. It was really weird, but I guess that explains why we've only seen one police car so far.
København has a great quality of life. We ate dinner on a pedestrian-only street and even the automobile-accessible streets often have more bikers than drivers. The city is clean, filled with parks and museums and its citizens exude a sense of prosperity. I'm sure it would be a great place to live if it weren't plagued by dangerous socialist ideas.
Today we're heading to Helsingor, Hamlet's castle, and tomorrow we take off on the bikes for the island of Møn and the real adventure/torture begins.
Tom
posted by Tom & Mats | 12:46 AM
1 Comments:
Mats - Hey, remember me, Sue (Northcutt) Mason - who worked for Chuck and Kam's Fund. Wow - we are really enjoying your blog! What an experience - I know that somewhere up there Rona is soooooooo proud - as we are! Go Mats and Tom!!
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