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Apr 23, 2016

Denmark project — Journal 1 and 2

A weekend full of stops, bone pain and cold horses

Luggage closign and goodbyes saturday. It kind of funny travel to a place where you know nothing and nobody and, despite it will be only for a month, the responsabilty pressure of a professional commitment with Brandts Museum made this short trip heavier thet the one year exchange on USA.

Farewells done, arrived at the airport and found the great news about my single check-in sending my luggage straight from Belo Horizonte to Copenhagen. And after a quick burguer fast-food stile, the 3 stops journey began.

SP/Frankfurt — good entertainment chanels

Great service during the international flight from SP to Frankfurt; Lots of films and quality content on TV. But unfortunately I felt some side effects of atmospheric pressure that I’ve never felt before. Probably because of the remaisns of a flu, I was on joint pain during all the 10 hours flight. I do not wish this sensation to anyone.

I was afraid of feeling myself a “stranger out of the nest” when arriving in Europe — there is a long time I haven’t been in a location where the majority of people speak in a language that I don’t. But it was not what happened. Everybody very polite and willing to spend their English with me.

Nearly 24 hours of the clock (19 in practice) have passed since the departure of BH until the arrival in Copenhagen. Since you are open to ask and risk, there is always a way to find the tickets and railway lines needed to cross Denmark (and some others countries around).

Very comfortable train. You must show your ticket to an electronic totem when taking and leaving the trains— detail that I learned later, but lucky for me, I was not charged for it.

To get in to Odense you must reach first the beautiful Copenhagen Central Station and then take the trail line 7.

On the way I came across modern wind power stations in parallel with old sets of houses. You could say that the whole neighborhood came out from the Grimm’s fairy tales. The only picture I lost the opportunity to take was the horses dressed on colorful coats for the cold weather…very charming.

Odense is practically dead on Sundays, but the Hotel Plaza is just a five minute walk from the station — which has some restaurants and stores in operation. I tasted the dish of the day with a beer suggested by the waiter: toasty warm meat balls, potato salad and boiled vegetables and a mug of the traditional Albani.

Two words to thank Europe’s existence: beer and chocolates!

Tips and curiosities:

To enjoy the best of the trip in the Nordic countries the ideal is to know something of the local languages, either German or Danish. You will be fine with English, since they are very helpfull. But in German and Danish words are never literally pronounced as it is written…what is very confusing, at least for me.
Change some Euros (or Dolars) for Danish Krones when you arrive. There are som places where they do not take Euros as payment. Every store gets credit cards as well.
If possible, plann your arrival on business day to find a fully open commercial area.
Spring at Denmark is as many cold as most of the winters on Brazil. Looks like most of the North America during the same time, but a little colder. and grey. Come prepared.

There are some pictures for you: