Aalborg, Denmark

Jun 3, 2012

It has been a very long day. I started off quite late, all my luggage on my back, wandering Odense, looking for the canal where you can go on the boat. Not because i wanted to go on any boats but i wanted to find it. That took a while, wandering the back streets and then following the river. By the time I reached the lock (where there was a sculpture of a horse in the river, a horse with frilly fins, a river-horse, therefore an actual hippopotamus, I'd realised...

Odense C, Denmark

Jun 2, 2012

I was woken at just after four this morning by a crashing noise and what I took to be a bright flash of light, convinced a bomb had gone off. It hadn't, of course - strange noises happen at night and there had been no flash of light, just very bright sunlight through thin curtains far too early in the morning. It was only as I was leaving that I discovered there are blackout blinds on the windows. I got myself to the station, managed to navigate the automatic t...

København V, Denmark

Jun 1, 2012

Despite the drunk Danes outside the window and the tap completely drying up before I'd brushed my teeth and the pillow being too puffy, I did manage to sleep last night. My plan for today was to get up to Rosenborg Slot. The sun was bright through my windows when I woke up so I put on my light trousers, rolled up, and just a t-shirt, smothered myself in suncream and went out. Only to find that because Denmark is in Scandinavia, it really wasn't too hot outside....

København V, Denmark

May 31, 2012

Today started quite early, about 5am, when I gave up trying to sleep in my pod, which had transformed overnight from cute, cosy and futuristic to an annoyingly purple hot airless shoebox. I packed up and fled, trying to find cool fresh air outside, failing even at 6.30am and instead checked in and went to get breakfast - toast and apple juice in Giraffe as I generally do if I'm at Gatwick fairly early. It was ridiculously early to go through to departures so I ...

Behrenhoff, Germany

May 31, 2012

I am blogging from 39000 feet. The WiFi actually isn't brilliant up here - it refuses to upload the picture of sky, cloud and plane wing I took from my window.