Denmark redeems itself

OK.  I may have freaked out last night (rightfully so, still) about Copenhagen's prices, but it's got a lot of redeeming features!  Luckily, the most impressive thing we've discovered about this city is its beauty.  Luckily, this is free.  There's a lot of pretty architecture, a lot of pretty art, a lot of pretty parks, and a lot of quiant, colorful neighborhoods.  We had a great time today simply wandering around soaking it all in.  Luckily, we weren't attacked by Vikings.  Perhaps they've gotten over that.  Didn't see any ghosts either.

To combat our newfound poverty (we've discovered that Copenhagen is the third most expensive city in the world) we stopped in the local Aldi (described as "the Goodwill of grocery stores, or maybe more like Marshall's" by Michael) to pick up a loaf of bread, some meat, cheese, jelly, cookies, and condiments to live off of for a day or so.  That helped alleviate our financial woes somewhat.  We've planned on doing this every day, but realized that stores are all closed on Sunday.  We also planned on stocking up on food for Sunday on Saturday, but the stores close early on Saturday and we missed our goal.  We're either going to make ourselves very poor, or very hungry on Sunday.

From there, we commenced a walking tour of the city.  We finally managed to get a good map (for free) from our hostel.  Rather than provide an exhaustive blow-by-blow account of our walk, I'll just attach a bunch of photos of some of the highlights.  To learn more about them, click them and read the titles and/or captions.

     

   

     

   

Since our hostile doesn't have a kitchen, to get a hot meal for dinner each day we've turned to Burger King.  We figure we easily burn off the calories we gorge ourselves there, and thus don't have to worry about the fat.  Cholesterol really shouldn't be a concern at our age, not for four days of bad diet.  We drink a load of water, so the massive sodium shouldn't even be an issue.

Our hostile, in its ridiculousness, closes the common room (despite being "open" 24 hours a day), which prevented me from blogging completely last night.  Thus, we have two days' of bloggery crammed into one.

We also met a new companion at our hostile, a Canadian guy named Rob, who joined us for some of the Copenhagen Pride events we attended today.  Never having been to any such thing before, it was a really interesting time.  A lot of it was conducted in Danish, but as one could expect, the overarching theme was equality, acceptance, and recognizing those individuals who've worked for such things.  Denmark's a very progressive country, and it was interesting to see everyone, gay and straight, interacting like it's no big deal.  This even extended to the parade spectators and the participants at the huge dance held in the town hall square.