Copenhagen 24th June 2009

We took a ferry over to Denmark from Germany. It was staggering operations management! I didn't time it so I may well be exaggerating but it was about 5 minutes onto the ferry with cars and approximately 2 minutes until we left dock. It was incredible and the same happened the other end. In England it never would work, the drivers would still be finishing their pints at the bar before they even realiased they may be needed back in their cars for arrival! Needless to say it was a great journey: swift, efficient and calm!

So we arrived in Denmark - Ja!!! We only had a few hours drive up to Copenhagen (Kobenhaven) where we arrived at our camp site, the first of our roadtrip, to find it pretty quiet. Most importantly this meant we could have what is really the highlight of the trip for Andy: Our first Tranja cooked dinner!

You may think that I have missed out a detailed description of Copenhagen and the delights we saw. But if you've never been to Copenhagen, you're not missing anything! Really!

In honesty we weren't impressed, the place is covered with signs and advertisements. I made us trek to what the Lonely Planet guide said was the 'tiniest cafe in the world'. Now if you are like me you may think 'what an experience?! I wonder if the espressos are so small they're served in tiny thimble like cups, or served by midgets because they're the only people who can get in and out?'. Well, don't believe everything you read. It was small - yes, but the tiniest cafe in the world? I think not! The guy sitting outside (I know the smallest cafe in the world, had an outside - what a farce!) looked like he thought he owned the place - well he could have - and was rather unfriendly and the girl serving the coffee was frankly rotund!. All-in-all crap.

Copenhagen kind of sucked after that. It was an alright town but not really for me. It's covered in drunks, but having said that, there have been drunks wherever we've been. Maybe we're following them all on the same Europe trail only some of them obviously got seperated at one point or another! Considering Denmark is officially the happiest country in the world, people seem to be getting pretty pissed trying to forget that fact!
"I bloody hate being so happy, hit me again barman!"

So in conclusions, yes, the Tranja was amazing in Copenhagen and the curry we cooked in it (I say we, but Andy did most if it) was tasty and after our first night sleeping in our tent, we were off again....Stockholm here we come, Copenhagen, good riddance!