This week is finally here! The last unofficial week of school and Xinyi’s family is here:)
Went to fetch them from the airport and headed down to Xinyi’s hometown at Birmingham. Spent two days in the city while we visited Cadbury World and University of Birmingham. Cadbury world is honestly quite meh cause it’s too kiddy and the UK people don’t know how to build an amusement park😒 so yea, adter the underrated theme park, we went over to Cafe 55 for the student canteen kinda food. But wtf, 7 pounds for fried rice, no way if not for xinyi’s mum hahaha!
Then Xinyi came and joined us for dinner at Bogeda, a mexican restaurant. YAY full family reunion at last (okay her dad is not in though)
Next day, we are off to Denmark. 5 transport change and 10 hours of transport, indeed we were quite afriad that Xinyi’s mum and sister would not be able to take the travel. However, it turned out much better than expected and we arrived in Copenhagen at 6pm!
My first thoughts of the Scandinavian country? Cold but not so cold, peaceful but super spacious (there are like 7 lanes on the roads. We first checked out the Christmas market at Trivoli Gardens, the oldest theme park in Europe! Its not the typical kind of theme park that is super big and rabak fun, but the Christmas market made the place rather lively! Yet, if I were to rate the Christmas Market, I would give 3/5 because you kind of need to pay SGD 25 to get in? Without taking a single ride. Yea it’s Denmark… the decorations are really ups and fairytale like though!
Went to Nyhaven the next day. Nyhaven is where the postcard view of Copenhagen was taken! It’s located a bit Southwest from the Little Mermaid statue, which is super chio but touristy. Both Nyhaven and the Little Mermaid are the representations of Denmark and I enjoyed trying out my new tripod and Neutral-density(ND) filter that Xinyi’s mum bought me for Christmas! Thank you auntie, now I can take long exposure shots already:)
Climbing up the Christianbourg Palace tower is advised and you can do it for free! The best time to climb up is during sunrise or sunset when the sun is orangey yellow as you willbe able to see it set down the city!
And lastly, we also went to this no-law zone called Christinia where the people can smoke and deal drugs legally. Kinda creepy as we walked through and in fact, we can feel the creeps as we walked through the place! To be frank, I didn’t felt comfortable at all and I kept ask Xinyi to hasten up the walk haha; she was quite calm lol. As we were about to leave, I saw a guy stashing out a bag of Cocaine, and immediately I pushed the family to the exit! Crazy adventure much😅
And with regards to the food in Denmark, expensive they are! A meal would cost on the average 15-20 SGD😞 but in terms of the quality, damn awesome! We had some Danish meal at a restaurant near Nyhaven and we ordered three open faced sandwiches. The smoked salmon and fish and chips are really fresh, and the Roast Hog skin is super crispy! In Denmark, it follows the Sandi countries and they serve Rye or White bread along with the main courses! However compared to Norway, the portion is much bigger for the similar price and we really enjoyed the meal:)
The second Danish meal we had was unpleasant though. We reached the restaurant at 11.30am but the waitress insisted on only serving us at 12 noon when the restaurant was opened and they served the European customers over us (such discrimination). I would recommend to eat near Nyhaven instead rather than that restaurant as their services are so bad!
Overall, Denmark is a comfortable place to explore and I believe that one shouldn’t just limit themselves to Copenhagen! I have friends who are exchanging in Denmark and I believe there are other parts of the countries one can explore too, such as the north coast or the other islands! And the next post will be really interesting because we will be visiting one of my favourite country in Europe – Switzerland! Stay tuned!
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