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naathI went on holiday, yay.
We went to Copenhagen and Stockholm via France/Belgium/Germany. Onna TRAIN, which necessitated overnight stops in Germany both ways, and the carrying of four currencies.
I have learned that when bahn.de thinks you can make a 6 minute change on a long distance train *it is wrong* (although I rebooked that one to avoid); our tightest change was 20 minutes in Copenhagen coming back, and it turned into 5 minutes due to train delays. Several trains were delayed, two by an hour.
Almost all of the trains were very busy, most of them had insufficient luggage capacity to cope with being full of people who all have luggage, which would seem reasonable on the commuter train to London but on an international train seems rather useless. The Hanover<->Stockholm train in particular had almost nowhere for large items of luggage.
Of 4 hotels only one managed to put 2 chairs in a room for 2 people (One had no chairs at all, which is at least more fair...).
We had amazing weather. It was sunny and warm every day.
We saw lots and lots of things; highlights:
*Copenhagen zoo has RED PANDAS. Two of them. And we got there before they fell asleep for the day.
*We went to Roskilde to see VIKING BOATS and actually got to row/sail on a similar boat.
*Parkrun has made it to Denmark, I parkran in Copenhagen :)
*Skansen in Stockholm is an outdoor museum/living-history/zoo place, and it's very cool.
*The Vasamuseet houses the Vasa which was a huge warship that... sank the first time it sailed, they dredged it up and made a museum and it's pretty cool.
*In Scandinavia they really know what to do with a herring.
We went to Copenhagen and Stockholm via France/Belgium/Germany. Onna TRAIN, which necessitated overnight stops in Germany both ways, and the carrying of four currencies.
I have learned that when bahn.de thinks you can make a 6 minute change on a long distance train *it is wrong* (although I rebooked that one to avoid); our tightest change was 20 minutes in Copenhagen coming back, and it turned into 5 minutes due to train delays. Several trains were delayed, two by an hour.
Almost all of the trains were very busy, most of them had insufficient luggage capacity to cope with being full of people who all have luggage, which would seem reasonable on the commuter train to London but on an international train seems rather useless. The Hanover<->Stockholm train in particular had almost nowhere for large items of luggage.
Of 4 hotels only one managed to put 2 chairs in a room for 2 people (One had no chairs at all, which is at least more fair...).
We had amazing weather. It was sunny and warm every day.
We saw lots and lots of things; highlights:
*Copenhagen zoo has RED PANDAS. Two of them. And we got there before they fell asleep for the day.
*We went to Roskilde to see VIKING BOATS and actually got to row/sail on a similar boat.
*Parkrun has made it to Denmark, I parkran in Copenhagen :)
*Skansen in Stockholm is an outdoor museum/living-history/zoo place, and it's very cool.
*The Vasamuseet houses the Vasa which was a huge warship that... sank the first time it sailed, they dredged it up and made a museum and it's pretty cool.
*In Scandinavia they really know what to do with a herring.
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Date: 2015-08-30 11:14 am (UTC)Did you get to go over the longest rail bridge? We did Billund-Copenhagen one time and it's spectacular :) Glad you got to the zoo and Roskilde, too, which were two of our favourite things in Copenhagen. (The third being the Exploratorium, which is somewhere between a children's museum and a science centre.) I haven't been to Stockholm, nor to Sweden at all for over 30 years, but I am excited at the ideas because we have 'take Colin to Sweden' on our list of travel plans, and that's been there for about 10 years.
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Date: 2015-08-30 11:20 am (UTC)Also the Channel Tunnel, for two major water crossing without boats. I hear that the Germany/Denmark crossing is to be replaced by a tunnel this decade.
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Date: 2015-08-30 03:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-08-30 05:56 pm (UTC)But putting a train on a boat is great too.
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Date: 2015-08-30 11:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-08-30 05:57 pm (UTC)Aside from the actual tripping over my own feet running round Copenhagen... (my knee huuuuuurts)
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Date: 2015-08-30 05:59 pm (UTC)