Ah finally... the home of the danish

Hi everyone from sunny Copenhagen! it is absolutely beautiful here and having a great time, albeit a broke time. Scandinavia does not come cheap - my lonely planet was right!!!

Anyway - am pleased to report that brave Clare came to Copenhagen.. I managed to negotiate the train from the airport to the station next to my hostel... and yep, am staying in a hostel. I spent all day yesterday adventuring around the central city and just people watching and admiring all the buildings and things and just generally acted like a tourist! The Copenhagen jazz festival is on at the moment so there are full on jazz quartets on every street corner playing away which is very cool. last night I was eating strawberries by a fountain in one of the traditional squares with two different jazz bands on either side and I felt quite European!!! Then tired Clare overtook brave Clare and we went home to bed :-)

The people here are all gorgeous and very, very tanned. I am quite conscious of my uberwhite legs! They also all appear to ride around recklessly on bikes - bikes are absolutely everywhere and they even have little slides on steps so people can wheel their bikes up.

Anyway - better go - today i am going to do a bit more wandering as my quest for the perfect pastry begins and then this afternoon I meet up with my tour group to check into our hostel (yep... there's that word again!) and have a dinner.

I hope you are all well!
C
PS big congrats to my cousin Marie on the arrival of her twins yesterday!