My 5-month stint in Sweden: Dinner at Klostergården + Trip to Denmark

Last Thursday was the first time I organized a dinner in my room. Why my room? Because they like my room which I don't understand why. They said "no specific reasons". But anyway, I guess it was a great dinner because so much food was prepared.

*meal preparation*

*main course*

*dessert by asako-san*

*yukino & asako*

*yukino, asako, kengo, mingkeato (HAHA)*

*yoji*

They started going crazy after dinner and began to play with my lamp.....

Yups, so that was the dinner before our respective trips to Denmark. I am going with fellow Singaporeans while they are going with their own friends.

Day 1

*Denmark*

We bought this "Sound Tour" card which allows us to travel up to Helsingborg first and then crossing the straits to Helsingor in Denmark by this huge ferry. The ferry's interior was amazing. They had restaurants, bars, convenience stores, etc.

*the trains in sweden look beautiful*

*Helsingborg Central*

*the inside of the ferry*

*lovely colours*

*people bring their vehicles across the straits as well*

*on ferry*

*ben, me*

*goodbye sweden*

*hello denmark*

*Hamlet's Castle*

*Helsingor*

The only attraction in Helsingor was the Hamlet's castle. The whole town seems pretty boring otherwise. Hamlet was a Danish prince in Shakespear's play "Hamlet". Well, I shall leave the literature part of this to Wikipedia, so you guys can check out who Hamlet is if you have never taken Literature =) Anyway we didn't want to pay to enter the castle, so we only managed to take pictures outside of the castle haha.

*Hamlet's Castle*

*beautiful blues*

After touring Hamlet's Castle in Helsingor, we took a train down to Copenhagen to meet up with Yicui, who is doing her Exchange in Copenhagen Business School (CBS), to go visit the Rosenborg Castle (where and the royal crowns and jeweleries were exhibited) and also to embark on the Canal Tours.

Rosenborg Castle

*Christian IV's Crown*

*Queen's Crown & The Crown of Absolutism*

*The State Sword*

*royal stuffs*

Canal Tours

*low bridge*

*Opera House*

*one of the beautiful residential bldgs along the canal tour route*

*the city's library - Black Diamond*

*The Little Mermaid*

*Supreme Court*

*the finance office - that's 4 dragon tails intertwined*

*spiraling stairs up a church*

After the Canal Tours, we took the Metro (which is like our MRT in Singapore) and it felt like we were in "Back to the Future" as the train moved. We headed for Danish pastries.... all of it look super delicious and I was so tempted to buy one of each to try. Haha... but I got the strawberry tart in the end, which tasted very good.

*Metro*

*Back to the Future*

*Danish Pastries*

*Strawberry Tart*

Afterwhich, it was time to head back to Yicui's place at Osterport (still in Copenhagen) for dinner and to sleep for the night. We bought alot of groceries, enough to make us dinnr for the night and the next day's breakfast, lunch and dinner.

*Osterport*

*ben frying the rice*

*yicui and mylene*

*i'm doing the next day's meals*

*fried rice*

*healthy soup*

*me, yicui, ben*

*hotdogs for the next day*

I can't believe it when they say they have never seen anyone steaming hotdogs or ham before! I mean, the hotdogs and hams I've been eating since young are steamed ones and I was doing it for the next day's breakfast and they were so shocked! Haha... but well, they liked it in the end still....

Day 2

We went down to Copenhagen Business School (CBS) where we were supposed to board the bus that takes us to Legoland!!! Woohoo.... Thanks to Yicui that we can get to go there at such a cheap price, because the school is organising this trip. And the 3 of us were supposed to pretend that we were students from CBS haha. Legoland is a really wonderful place, it brings back childhood days memories... those lego pieces, those pirates and their ships and their treasure chests.

*at CBS*

*green lights on the road - airport runway?*

*beautiful view along the way*

*us at Legoland*

*fellow tourists*

*even the bins are lego-ed*

*maintenance in progress*

*rabbit saw me (HAHA)*

*zzz*

*oops, my ice cream dropped*

*that's Hans Christian Andersen!!*

*marching band*

*Singapore Airlines A380 model*

*all the Singaporeans with the A380*

*British Airways concorde*

*Bergen (Norway), where we had salmon at the fish market*

*the fish market*

*yicui, me, mylene in front of Bergen*

*rocket taking off*

*Canal Tours*

*The Royal Residence*

*top view of Legoland*

I have many of such pictures but it's very tiring to put up so many... We next went to this Atlantis thingy because I thought initially it really had something to do with the lost city of Atlantis. But it turned out that it was just another underwater world! Disappointing.

*Atlantis*

*in the middle of an aquarium*

We also went to play with the rides that were all over the whole theme park. The rides were relatively not so scary (still thrilling though) because most of the visitors here are small kids I guess.

This Power Builder is shiok! You get a memory card with a chip in it, and you go to a computer to set the moves of the robotic arms that you want and the level (1-5, with 5 being the craziest) you want the arms to go at. Naturally we chose level 5 haha... and we were swung round and upside down like crazy..

*playing in the shop*

*witch & wishing well*

And so, the fun time always comes to an end very quickly. We had to leave Legoland and head back to Copenhagen where the 3 of us had to return to Lund by catching a midnight train! But before that, Yicui's landlord let us try the cheese from her own shop. I didn't really want to try it but well.... out of courtesy sake, I gave it a try. It was not too bad (1 from Spain, and another from Amsterdam), but I still didn't feel like finishing the whole slice of the cheeses.

And Yicui must have felt like a superstar when we each took a photo with her at the train station before leaving HAHA... but yups, thanks alot for hosting us while we were in Copenhagen!