20 june 2024
Travel log
For our last day before going back to Zürich, we went to Copenhagen!
We decided to go by train because a/ trains b/ driving sucks c/ parking sucks more. The Danish train company recently introduced a check-in / check-out mechanism in their app, which worked well enough for the tickets (it felt more clunky than the Swiss equivalent, but still alright.)
The first train was a diesel train going through the forest and crossing multiple foot paths (and hence honking once a minute or so). We changed to a S-tog (equivalent of our S-Bahn, we supposed), which brought us to the center of Copenhagen.
First (almost) mandatory stop: the statue of the Little Mermaid around the port. As expected, somewhat underwhelming, but there was still many many tourist buses around! We took the opportunity to put on some sunscreen (hadn't done that yet), and someone asked us for some (we were happy to help :) )
Then we walked some more around the port, looked at the opera house from the other side of the canal, saw a lot of boats (including a lot of sailboats, a gigantic cruise ship and a very large yacht), and arrived around Nyhavn, known for its colorful facades.
From there, we took the metro to try and have a look at the Church of our savior, which looked pretty cool from the outside (in Copenhagen, the spire slays you), but was unfortunately closed to the public this afternoon.
We took the metro again and went to spend some time in the King's Garden (and have a peek at the Rosenborg Castle. We finished our day in Copenhagen by going for coffee (and strawberry lemonade) and eclairs in a nearby salon.
We took the train back to Gillelege; we made some snarky remarks about the Hillerød train station, which has tracks 0, 1, 3, 4n, 11, 12, 14 and 16, and tracks 0 and 14 are, obviously, next to each other. I may or may not have fallen asleep on the train :p and I'm now typing this as Pierre went for a run before dinner.
Dinner at the hotel, packing for tomorrow and reading.
Books
Finished Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology and really enjoyed it.
Now back to The Left Hand of Darkness! (I like it so far but I'm not sure I'm smart enough for that book ^^;) Or more precisely to keep track of that amount of proper names.
Added https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pyyy-BAIYQ to "watch later", looks interesting
Read https://www.thecut.com/article/memory-people-who-remember-vs-forget.html about remembering: it does seem memory ability varies depending on people. As a probable "forgetter" (in the terms of the article, and despite the warning against rememberer/forgetter essentialism), I can't say I'm surprised.