Scandinavia
June 13 - 18
It was with great excitement that I got out and on the plane to Denmark. It was a relief to be out of MrG’s apartment. I was sat next to a nice Danish lady who gave me lots of advice about flying (She was a nurse). She had relatives in Perth, so we talked about that, and how she has lots of frequent flyer points to fly business class when going to different continent. *sigh*
I met my friend (that I am staying with) at the airport in Copenhagen, and we talked all the way back to their place. Very green, and very sunny. An interesting observation, on certain days you can see lots of vapour trails. I saw hundreds in the sky over london, not so many in Sweden and Denmark but you see a few.
We had lunch on the ferry travelling between Sweden and Denmark, great lamb steaks, great coffee, more Carlsberg beer. Then we purchased some beer on the way back to my friend’s house. On the Danish side of the strait, since it’s cheaper. Apparently alot of swedes do this. After a few days, it’s not uncommon to start noticing swedes walking out of the Ferry Terminal with a few cartons of beer on small luggage trolleys, all for “personal use”
Swedes and Danes are much friendlier than the Brits, however, will choose not to speak english if they can get away with it. Since my friend was around, they would direct all their questions to him, rather than me. Fair enough.
Shopping time$
I have purchased a nice pair of sneakers, I am size 40eu. A leather backpack and matching purse. Then comes the travelling to the glass factories of sweden. Orreforrs, Kosta, plus some other smaller places. Wow. Their warehouses were pretty large, and surprisingly, not so many tourists there as alot of Swedes doing their shopping. Seems like all the good stuff gets sold overseas, as swedes like their bargains with the seconds. Seconds could be.. a blue dot in the wrong place, or a paint stroke not long enough.
So I got a couple of blue goblets, a small glass cat (i think) I got a wooden carved pen.. Had this great afternoon tea, lunch and evening meal with a family friend of my mate. He lives in that area, so he showed us around all the factories.
The mossies are huge!
More later 
posted by lori at 11:37 PM
2 Comments:
Hammy said…
Great to hear what is happening. I’ve been waiting to hear on Lori’s Cubes, but, nothing. David posted a link and I’ve been able to catch up with what I’ve been missing. Jealous Lori, jealous.
4:09 PM
lori said…
I am unable to log in properly to my blog. Guess the security is too good or the logging in system is too crap 
7:51 PM