Scandinavian Capitals

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The Scandinavian trip was great and – as expected – very expensive. Once you are used to Czech prices everything in Scandinavia is quite expensive – especially for alcohol.

Anyways we had a great time and got to cover a lot of ground in the 10 days the trip lasted. We started out with four people Andres (Ecuador), me, Femi (Northern Ireland) and Mehmet (Turkey) here in Copenhagen, King’s Garden in front of Rosenborg Castle.

In the Kings Garden

The best thing about the trip was reconnecting with a lot of friends. In Copenhagen we stayed and partied with Moses, Daniel and the rest of the old IAESTE Copenhagen crew. Went to concert with Sophie who was in Prague last summer. I met my cousin Rikke for some drinks, my thesis buddy Mikkel made a great dinner and my best childhood friend Johannes gave me lunch. Michael, a friend from bording school saw on Facebook that I was coming to town and joined one of the parties and old university buddies Sohl and Corneliussen joined at Christiania.

It was great being back in Copenhagen on some of the early summer days and we did cover some of the touristy spots like Nyhavn.

Nyhavn

We jumped on the boat to Oslo and sailed through the night and woke up in Norway. We needed some recouping sleep after Copenhagen and the cabin on the boat was just right for that.

The Copenhagen-Oslo boat

We walked the city of Oslo for the day and met up with Mikkel from my university who showed us Vigelands Parken. After a day of strolling Oslo we took a bus at midnight towards Stockholm.

Vigeland Sculpture Park

After a bumpy night on the bus we came to Stockholm very early and checked in to our hostel and went out to see the town. Two more friends from Prague, Murat (Turkey) and Jeremie (France) joined us and for the rest of the trip. Here is a female guard from the Royal Palace in Stockholm, do we have that in Denmark?

Royal guard

We found a cheap cabin on the boat to Helsinki so the whole grouped went further east for a cruise. It took one night in each direction and then we had a day to walk the city of Helsinki. He we are in front of the orthodox church.

Orthodox Church in Helsinki

Back in Stockholm we met up with Backsell, and Freddy two friends we met in Michigan. They showed us the nightlife of Stockholm and the fashionable Sturaplan in particular.

Backsell and Femi at Stureplan

After 10 days of traveling and partying it was nice to get home.

There is 200 pictures from Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki on flickr.


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6 thoughts on “Scandinavian Capitals”

  1. Sounds like you guys had a great trip. This Sunday I’m coming back to Denmark after 8 months in the US. You’re making me a bit homesick for Scnadinavia.

    One of my good friends is female and served her military duty in Livgarden at Amalienborg Castle so, yeah, we do have female guards in Denmark also. :o)

  2. Hej Michael. det lyder som en dejlig tur med en masse oplevelser hilsen far og mor

  5. @Andreas: I will try and see if I can catch you next time I’m in Denmark. Good to know that we got female guards in DK, I never knew.

    @far og mor: tak :)

    @The Czech Daily Word: Thanks for the add – you are also on my list of Prague blogs I read ;)

    @bluefish: Cool. And good luck with your move to Denmark

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