Day by Day in Denmark

After 5 days of settling in to our neighborhood in Copenhagen, Chuck and I decided to take advantage of a forecast of 2 days of beautiful weather to take a little trip to Aarhus, on the western peninsula of Jutland.  We quickly booked ourselves a hotel and bought train tickets for the next day.  It was a very peaceful 3+ hour train ride through the mostly flat countryside, with cropland, forests, small towns.  When I learned that Mollehoj, the highest point in Denmark (171m high!), was located quite close to the train line in Jutland, I got my phone out to take photos of the mountains or hills or bumps that I might see, being a mountain girl at heart.  It was surprisingly difficult to determine when we were passing the highest point! After we arrived at the train station in Aarhus, we quickly found the lively pedestrian street (Stroget) that led us up thru the center of town, across the canal, thru the Latin Quarter to our little hotel.  We visited the rooftop o...

Every day has been a new adventure since we arrived here in Copenhagen, Denm ark, a little more than a week ago! We flew from Detroit to Newark on August 4th so we could spend several days with Jeff, Becky, Cora, and Kylie. Then from Newark, we flew thru London to Copenhagen and arrived on August 8th. We were happily greeted by our former exchange student Ida who had a big smile and a Danish flag to greet us!  She then helped us figure out how to take the train into the city and move our suitcases over the bumpy cobblestone sidewalks and up the five flights of stairs to our home for the next 6 weeks. She showed us a bit of town and took us to an outdoor food court by the water for dinner, keeping us moving so we could more quickly adjust to Danish time. We are enjoying our AirBnB apartment: it is nice and light with windows on two sides; two small balconies overlook a surprisingly pleasant parking lot. The windows on the other side look over a park with benches, tables, grills, and...