Kevin and I traveled to Copenhagen by a train from Växjö to København on Friday. It was a lot easier getting there than coming home since Copenhagen is a big city they had a direct train traveling there. You first buy your ticket in the train station at a little automatic machine where you choose your destination and number of passengers and put in your credit card and are all set! It sounds a lot easier than it is! lol First of all there are like 5 different machines for train company's and we didn't know which one to pick and the fact that Copenhagen is actually København threw us off a bit. Luckily the people behind us in line were very helpful! They walked us through the whole process and told us to choose that we are traveling as 1 family rather than 2 passengers because it comes up cheaper that way! In the end it was 515 Swedish Krona for a one-way family ticket to Copenhagen, and it was the same price for the trip home! So we had our ticket and we were ready to hop on the next train! We left Växjö around 15:30 and arrived in København around 17:42. Everything here is in Swedish Krona and Military Time giving you all a taste of what we got through on a daily basis! Lots of math! lol The trip home on the train was not so easy to figure out since there was not a direct train to Växjö we had to go on one train that was going in the direction towards Växjö then get off before the train switched paths and then had to get on another train. We didn't really know where we were suppose to get off so we stayed on and missed our stop and again there is no one to ask or help you! It was a disaster but we figured it out and got home! :)
Our train to Copenhagen!
We traveled over the Øresund Bridge from Sweden to Denmark! Its nice once your in the EU- European Union you can travel freely from country to country you choose! The Øresund Bridge is 8 Km long and is the longest combined railway and road bridge/tunnel in Europe connecting the Danish Capital Copenhagen and the large Swedish city Malmo. The Øresund Bridge was designed by the Danish architectural practice Dissing+Weitling. Construction on the bridge began in 1995 and was complete in 1999. It is very expensive to travel over this bridge by car! That is why we decided to take the train rather than drive to Copenhagen. Costing 375 Swedish Krona each way.
He's the cutest!! <3 :)
We have arrived! at the Copenhagen Train Station!
Kevin was starving! No food on the train so he needed a quick meal at McDonalds!
Train Station in Copenhagen!
Our room at DGI-Byens Hotel In Copenhagen! dgi-byen.com It was a very nice hotel and conveniently located next to the train station and close to everything! We booked online the night before and found a room for about 1080 Danish Krone. Very children friendly with a huge pool, rock climbing wall, fitness center, sports complex, bowling alleys, spas, and restaurants.
Our room! Decorated by Ikea! lol Scandinavian beds are always 2 twin beds pushed together. There whole mattress system is completely different than ours. They have a firm mattress base which is 2 twins pushed together all in one large bed frame and then a foam topper which could be 2 twins or one large one the covers over the middle seam so it then feels like one bed. (In our apartment we have a thick large foam topper so you can't even feel the seam which is nice!) then each twin side gets there own blanket. No large blanket to share.
Quote on our wall in our hotel room! Best I could translate it:
"to have
household remedies.
health is
how
you have it.
resistance
is
as you take it."
Piet Hein
Swedish Words of the Day:
Tåg (pronounced "toge") meaning Train
Hotell (pronounced "hotell") meaning Hotel ;)
Bro (pronounced "br (tongue roll) o") meaning Bridge
Danish Words of the Day:
Tog (pronounced "tcho") meaning Train
Hotel (pronounced "hotee") meaning Hotel
Bro (pronounced "pol") meaning Bridge
Crazy how different the pronunciations are between the 2 languages
PEACE & LOVE,
Kevin & Amanda
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