This is The End - Hamburg and Going Back to Copenhagen

June 11, 2015 Update: I am a very sad excuse for a blogger.  I never even uploaded the rest of my vacation pictures. To be fair: I had just gotten a promotion a couple of weeks before I left and my former boss left the company while I was gone and there were four meetings occurring right when I came back.  Needless to say, there was plenty of stuff to take care of at home.


I consolidated the Hamburg portion of this trip because I really just went out exploring one day, came back to the hostel where I did not enjoy a gross HAMBURGer (seriously.. it's in the name.. they are only obligated to be good at ONE thing).  I also stayed out for a while and spent the entire next day recovering and then happily made my way back to Copenhagen, eager to flee Hamburg (and lost my gray beanie and Euro plug in the process).

My bunkmate at the Hamburg hostel who liked to dangle his feet.  I don't like feet.  And he was a smelly dude.  Smelly dude, smelly dude.. what are they feeding you?

This kid behind me is in a tree.

Cannons because, why not?

Girl, they probably don't like you if they drew on a Hitler 'stasche.

Not exactly a political slogan that'd be used stateside.

What's "Asian food"?  Probably not something I'd like or eat.

The worst hamburger I've ever had. On a bright note, this burger singlehandedly led to the most fun night of my entire vacation, complete with two Australians, two Germans, a Canadian, and the Raeperbahn (Red Light District).

Hamburg train station

Random happy face in a gritty area  Isn't that nice?

I don't even know what to say about this.

Smaller than a Smart Car!

More random happy faces!

Hans Hummel statue in the Hamburg train station. Apparently, he was the "legendary last water-carrier in Hamburg" - whatever that means. Kinda looks like Steve Buschemi, right?

Another one. And I was eating ice cream with brownies. And this was at like, 8am.

The best meal of vacation - potato wedges. It was the bomb dot com!

The tiny bathroom in my Hamburg hostel room. I'm a small person and this was too small for even me.

When I went back to Copenhagen, the flags were at half mast for the shootings that occurred while I was in Hamburg.

I was having a sandwich and a delicious Belgian waffle at a tiny eatery in Copenhagen when a random camera crew comes in, filming some kind of eating contest.

Copenhagen's response to Third Street Promenade's Silver Man

Little Mermaid statue at the Copenhagen airport

At Gatwick Airport in London

Not finished yet but ready to go!

So I still haven't completely unloaded my vacation pictures (oops) but I've already booked my next trip.  Did you know I love being in cold places at cold times?  No? Well apparently I do, since I'm going to see more of Scandinavia in November.  Stay tuned!

Copenhagen and Hamburg - Day 3: Goodbye and Hello

I have been back for almost two weeks and haven't finished my blogging. I stopped after two days because I was doing work and also had horrible insomnia. Hopefully my memory is fairly intact.

On this day, I was exploring Copenhagen before my flight to Hamburg. I visited Rosenborg Castle, Amalienborg Castle, and the Round Tower.

Rosenborg Castle was the older of the two. I spent a long time studying everything and imagining how life there must have been.

The digs

The return of the selfie stick! Since there's not a ton of Asian tourists here, I didn't see many of them being broken out.

One of the Royal Thrones

This room is baller status. I feel like this looks like a rap star's bedroom.

Another Royal Throne.. my computer chair will never look as good as it did before I saw this

Probably not as warm as my beanie.

What the? I take weird pictures when I'm sleep deprived.

I'm so tall!

Amalienborg Castle was more modern and much smaller than Rosenborg Castle. However, I spent a lot of time reading all of the captions, since it was really interesting learning about modern monarchy with currently existing royalty.

This reminds me of that I Love Lucy episode when she hides under a bear rug.

Oops - I realized when taking this picture that I was standing in his path.

Dresses

Reminds me of Game of Thrones

I spent a really long time looking at this royal wedding photo. They labeled each person and it's so funny that it's official and so many people are looking away or blinking.

The Round Tower was a dizzying experience that tapped into my fear of heights. It made me think of Tangled, in that there was a round tower but good thing I didn't have to climb up through someone's long braid.  Although that might have been interesting too.  When I got to the top, I felt my knees buckle and taking pictures terrified me because I imagined dropping my phone and it shattering into a million pieces.

Climbing up to the tower

The spiral staircase. It was so steep and I was scurred.

A view from the tower

In the evening, I flew to Hamburg and arrived late.  My first German meal was the fine cuisine of KFC (for the first time in forever) and a random German guy tapped on the window and pointed to my burger and asked if I was enjoying it by giving a thumbs up with a questioning look on his face.  I attribute this to either the scarcity of Asians (although I saw more later in the day) or possibly inhaling my food - I'm not sure which it was.  I did walk around the street a little and there was nothing to see except sad ladies of the night who were bundled up in their winter best.

My hostel experience was much less pleasant than in Copenhagen - the shower was hideously tiny, my bunk mate had an overpowering stench, and the window wouldn't open all the way.  But you get what you pay for.

Here's some other random pictures

These happy faces were so cute.

I think this is a church in Copenhagen. I realized that my head/beanie is the same shape.

This reminds me of a bluetooth headset

Classy.. the poop is the Danish flag

You know how I like oversized things. This was at the Copenhagen airport.

And a big coffee cup too that dispenses coffee.