Shandy Shenanigans: Last days in Denmark - sorry its late, have been working arses off in UK.

The wee bathroom in Heidi's apartment (Sharon for scale) :-) cosy

We are currently sitting on a bus travelling through the English country side to our next destination, Ross-on-Wye. We enjoyed Denmark and are a bit sad to leave but feel ready for our next adventure.

We have been a bit slack with our blogging but have been busy since our last. We forked out some money and went on a canal tour, which is good for the fact that you know what they are telling you is true… Our dear friend and guide Heidi at times proved to change Denmark’s history but we forgave her for that as she truly believed the stories herself!
We visited the National museum and walked through Danish history from the Stone Age through to the year 2000. It was amazing to see how many relics the Danish have especially form the Viking times…all thanks to sacrifices to their God in bogs around Denmark! We also visited their art museum which took us two days to navigate as it was so huge and we both found very enjoyable.
The sight’s that Andy and I both enjoyed the most were to be found down the main street of the town on the weekend. This street is huge and only for pedestrians and so buskers with all types of talents gather to entertain shoppers. Buskers included Indian music, bag pipes, boy’s playing bottles, soccer skills, portrait sketches, singers, dancers, spray painters and many others in between. One of our favourite things we stumbled across was a ‘sign spotters’ display which consisted of funny signs from all around the world. That street could entertain one for hours.

On the Saturday night we decided to ‘hit the town’ and were lucky enough to find some friendly Nepalese people at the local bus stop who invited us to join them in going to the pub they frequent due to the great live music and for the one who decides a pretty singer he quite fancies. They proceeded to dance with great vigour stating that ‘western’ dancing was too boring and slow… so we joined in, fun, fun  True to the Nepalese tradition of dancing, friends and food, they brought with them large amounts of Asian food in boxes and where not at all perturbed by the fact they had forgotten forks… It was the first time we had really felt ‘at home’ in Denmark and would now love to visit Nepal!

The next day we rested as we did not manage to get home until the wee hours and then headed to an English speaking church situated in ‘the hood’ and enjoyed that very much. While we were at church the weather packed it in much to our disappointment as we had planned a bbq at the beach with the two girls we were staying with and their friends. Luckily we made good of a bad thing and still went along with the bbq even though most Danes piked out… to be honest some of them need a bit of toughening up! So we sat out in the rain and cooked the bbq (which took awhile as they seem to all only have tiny coal grills) and when it was done we ate the (coal flavoured) food on the floor of the apartment on rugs and chatted until quite late once again, very hugilite (translation: atmospherically pleasant, cosy and homely)!
Our last day in Copenhagen consisted of a trip into the greater Copenhagen area where we had been invited to visit a homeless shelter that Heidi had worked in four years ago. The staff were wonderful and we learned about their services and ate lunch with the homeless people, some of them being quite characters and at one point one of them rushing in to be looked after with blood pouring out of his hand… they say no day is ever the same in that place!

We then headed off to visit the castle on which Shakespeare based his play Hamlet… oooo… This was the first time we had been prepared to fork out some money to see the inside of a ‘real’ Danish castle however were unfortunately stopped due to the ‘privilege’ of having the Queen visit the castle. So instead of seeing the castle we got to see the Queen for a few precious seconds… wow… Luckily the old case mates below the castle and the chapel where still able to be looked at as the Queen was not going to grace those areas with her presence! We blindly (due to the fact we had no torch and did not want to buy one) searched around the dark, cold, and damp maze below the castle, looked around the chapel and then headed back to town for an ice cream and dinner thanks to Heidi’s lovely mother who sadly we were unable to meet.
And now here you find me…in England travelling on the bus with Andrew asleep beside me… here we go again.