Friday, July 21, 2006
Copenhagen II
I know, I'm backtracking again... but it's hard to take these day-long trains without some sort of break in between!
This time in Copenhagen, I spent the night in a hostel with Chelsea, the recent NYU graduate I met in Stockholm. It was quite amazing, because after I left for Uppsala we didn't arrange any plans to meet up again, but by chance we were on the same train in the same car to Copenhagen! After arriving, we walked the town yesterday and had a picnic dinner in a secret park near - oh wait, it's a secret :) After the sun set (which happens quite late here, well past 10 o'clock still) we headed back to the hostel by way (unintentionally, of course) of the shadiest part of town with sex shops lining the street on either side. After our fear of getting mugged subsided and we were safe in our room, we cracked open a bottle of Absinth (not the hallucinagenic type; note the spelling!) and had a couple of shots each and talked on the balcony of our hostel until the rain finally sent us to bed in the wee hours of the morning.
It's amazing, traveling is. This trip - the people I've met, places I've gone to and things I've experienced in the last few weeks - has changed a lot about my outlook on life. I am more open, more adventurous, and feel extremely uneducated about the world! I can only think about traveling now. I look at a paycheck in number of days in a certain country, or a plane ticket to Peru or Taiwan or New Zealand. I have planned trips for every break from now until I graduate in a couple years, and a trip for when I do graduate. (parents: don't freak out!) I don't know, I guess I am enjoying myself too much on this trip to think about ever not travelling!
Anyway, that aside, I am taking a night train to Amsterdam tonight to get out of the expensive Scandanavian area. I am bummed about missing out on Norway, but there's always my next trip! It's coming down to crunch time; I have to choose my battles about where I want to go because I have just a handful of days left before I return home.