Holiday Road: Hamburg & Copenhagen

The school week was relatively uneventful. Its crazy how fast the program is flying by. Katie, Madeline, Lauren and I hadn’t planned anything for Easter yet, so we were trying to find the cheapest place all of us wanted to go. Katie had the idea to rent a car and go on a road trip up to Denmark. We all thought that sounded like fun. Katie booked a car, and we headed out on Friday morning. Road-trips are so fun when you’re travelling with a fun group of people. We ate a ton of crappy food, jammed to songs, and just had a great time being around each other. 

Katie drove us about 4 hours to Hamburg the first day. We stayed at an ibis budget hotel, which was not the nicest, but worked for us. We ate dinner at this neat pub in town. After dinner, we went out in Hamburg, and found some people who showed us a couple fun clubs. We had a good night wandering around the city and hanging out. The next day we drove to Copenhagen. We almost decided not to go when we found out the car didn’t have unlimited mileage. On the drive there, we crossed the Øresund bridge. We arrived in Copenhagen around 5pm. Everyone wanted to take a nap, so we did. I woke up about two hours later, and tried to wake everyone else up, but no one wanted to get up. I became a bit passive aggressive about it, insisting that we must go sight-seeing. By the time everyone was ready to leave, it was already dark out… so sight-seeing didn’t really work out haha. We had dinner at a cute little bar with live music.

The next day we walked around Copenhagen. We saw Frederiksborg Palace, Nyhavn, the little mermaid rock, Christiansborg Palace/ governement building, a guard changing procession, and a pretty cathedral. I liked walking around the gardens and playground outside the Fredriksborg Palace. Nyhavn was really pretty. Colorful buildings and ships line both sides of the canal dividing the streets. We stopped to get some pizza for lunch, which was quite expensive as most everything in Copenhagen is. Rather than pay for another night in a hotel, we decided to drive back Sunday night. We left around 5 or 6pm and drove all the way back to Bonn. We passed over the same bridge just as the sun was setting. The sky was painted with blue, pink, yellow, and orange. The sunset was gorgeous. There was one section of highway under construction that the GPS was freaking out over and kept taking us on random detours back to the closed entrance to the highway. All the construction and road signs made things a bit difficult to understand, especially at night. At one point, we almost drove down the wrong way on a ramp exiting the highway! On our drive we saw a ton of bonfires lit across Germany. We were all a bit weirded out by the fires. Madeline insisted they had something to do with plans for an alien invasion she discovered was coming on April 18^th. Katie didn’t get tired of driving till about the last two hours of our trip. I drove us back into Bonn. I liked getting to drive in Germany. I was home by about 3 or 4am. I spent Monday relaxing and getting ready for the week ahead.