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  • Good for me

    Today is June 19.

    In Barcelona while writing this. The weather was gorgeous yesterday – warm, but just windy enough that I didn’t feel like I was sweating into a tiny puddle outside Sagrada Familia.

    The hotel was good. It’s in a rather quiet neighbourhood, but close to the Metro, so not far away from anything. I bought a ten trip ticket on the transportation system – so I wouldn’t have to hassle with coins everywhere.

    I think I’ve had the best sleep in a while. I fell asleep around 22.30 last night, after a siesta in the day after arrival. At home I would just have checked websites over and over to see if there was anything new. But here – no internet connection. (My hotel has wireless, but I can’t be bothered asking for the pw.)

    I’m writing this on my iPhone, and it will either be posted when I find an internet connection, or when I come home.

    Now, I’m about to check out and go meet my travel mates at the airport. I am, of course, taking the Metro, and then the train (as the metro does not go to the airport yet)

  • Packing panic

    It’s rather strange. I’ve spent so much time planning this trip – it’s been in the works for 2 ½ years now – that it was only last week that I realised it was time to start packing.

  • Airport security

    Of course there is a strike of the security personell at the airport the week I’m scheduled to fly out.

    Fortunately, my airport is not the hardest hit.

    Oh, Norway and its labour strikes. Always in the late spring/early summer…

  • Holiday weather

    Obsessively checking the weather of everywhere we’re going. Weather.com is not making it easy for me, with their 10 days ahead forecast.

    Damn it, I want to know what the weather is like in Rome in 12 days.

  • Copenhagen: For Royal Watchers

    Danish Crown
    Danish Crown by Rosenborg Castle

    Frequently, or so it seems, people ask on message boards what they can see when they go to a country with royals. Here are some of the highlights I frequently repeat about Copenhagen and the surrounding area.

    Note that unless you plan to be in Copenhagen on the Queen’s birthday, (which is April 16) actually seeing the royals in the flesh is not guaranteed. Following the calendar to check out if there are any royal events where you’ll be, is one way to try to see them.

    But here are some royal-related activities.

    Changing of the guards at Amalienborg: It is undoubtedly much more of a circus, so to speak, when the Queen is in residence, due to the number of soldiers being involved then, also the marching band plays then. It happens at noon at the square in-between the four Palaces of Amalienborg.

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  • Copenhagen

    Sometimes it is strange coming back to old haunts; I moved from Copenhagen earlier this summer. And I’ve been visiting again this weekend.

    From the moment on the metro when I didn’t get off on my usual stop, close by where I used to live, things have been kind of odd. I know this place, but I’m a tourist, nevertheless.

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