Our Good Friday in Brighton!
Revisiting the old stomping grounds in Oxford!
Easter Afternoon Tea :)
Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theater!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
During our long Easter break, however, I got the opportunity to go to Copenhagen with the two Kristins and Emily, three great friends with a like-minded love of art and adventure. Our plane tickets were cheaper than a plate of fish and chips, so we decided to hop over to Denmark for a little holiday.
Copenhagen is an interesting place. Clean, beautiful, architecturally marvelous, it reads as a little too good to be true. The people are friendly, and they all speak English. There aren't very many of them, either--a lot of the time we were there it was as if we had the city to ourselves. I joked that it was all a big movie set with five extras we kept seeing to try and convince us it was a real place. Jokes aside though, it's easy to see why people would live in Scandinavia. The men are also really attractive. Just saying.
At the Louisiana Art Museum and the David Collection, we had the opportunity to see some great contemporary as well as medieval Islamic art! The Op-Art exhibition and outdoor sculpture garden at the Louisiana--all against a backdrop of Ocean and, in the distance, Sweden--was particularly stunning.
We climbed a terrifying church tower, a gilded spiral stair that ended high above the city--and by ended, I mean it just ended. There were stairs and then there weren't. No platform. Just you, suspended above Copenhagen on a step half a foot wide. Just a block down from the church is Christiana, an independent hippy commune that we took a brief stroll in before seeking lunch back in the confines of the EU.
We went to Tivoli, a famous and very old amusement park where I rode an all wooden roller coaster that's about as old as Rhodes College. A man rode with us and manually controlled the speed!
We walked ourselves nearly to death and had the time of our lives. I especially loved the boat tour we took, that began in Nuhavn and took us all around the city by canal. It featured a cold wind, colorful houses, sailing boats, an 18th crane, and, of course, Copenhagen's most famous daughter, Hans Christian Anderson's Little Mermaid.
I was a little disappointed we didn't get to go to Rosenborg Palace, but that leaves something for the next time! Look at this hot chocolate:
Why yes, that is just a cup of hot milk and a chunk of chocolate I got to stir in! I announced this to the entire cafe and got some weird looks.
At trip's end, Kristin and I capped it off with a traditional Denmark delicacy--hot dogs and chocolate milk! (Their airport, by the way, was friendly, effortless and so classy! Those scandanavians put us all to shame...)
