[Volcanic Trip, Part 4] Goal 2: Denmark

We arrived in Amsterdam unexpectedly by plane. This was a glorious thing to be so far north, and luckily, our previous couchsurfer Sacha was able to host us, last minute. We rested up at his place for the night while getting advice on how to hitchhike. We knew from our last time here that hitchhiking in Germany was easy, so we were going to give it a shot to avoid an expensive hit to the wallet in order to buy a bunch more train tickets. We were headed to Copenhagen again...

Goal 2: Hitchhike

We went to a place off of an onramp looking to get on the road through Germany from there. However, after an hour of waiting, we moved to a gas station, where I asked a kind lady where a better gas station would be. She directed us to a better position at a 'Liftplatts,' a designated area for hitchhikers.

This is me making some signs. That Amstel in the background became more of a burden than anything.

From the 'liftplatts,' this man picked us up and took us to another station on the A1. This guy started his own company. I don't remember if he said what it was, but we didn't ride with him long.

From the station on the A1, this man took us almost to the border of Germany. He's a retired director of a music school in the Netherlands. Now he does volunteer work for refugees.

And from that station, this car (filled with a man) took us to Hamburg, Germany. I don't know anything about cars, but apparently this is the luxury class Volkswagen Phaeton with a V12 engine. The best part about it was that we got to speed down the motorway of the autobahn with the driver of this vehicle. The driver was a horse trader, international.

This is how I got to Hamburg. Because of how late it was, the sun had set and we didn't feel like spending our time in Hamburg in the cold, so we bought a bus to Copenhagen from there. Hamburg was a nice little city.

Of course this is Hamburg, so we had to eat a hamburger.

This was the nicest thing to look at in Hamburg.

Copenhagen

We stayed with really nice couchsurfers in Copenhagen. It was a big flat with lots of room. We arrived by overnight bus at about 7 am, and we started walking.

The Opera House

Some Canal

This was the huge conference building that we found free coffee in.

This is a windmill in the middle of one of the oldest, best preserved fortress in Europe.

This is me with Antlers.

Eating a Danish Danish in Copenhagen.

Christiania was a really cool place with lots of chill people who built houses themselves.

This was a castle.

More castle.

We went to a bar that had a comedy show. I didn't understand anything anyone said, but I laughed all the same.

The canals that ran through Copenhagen were really excellent and beautiful.

The Little Mermaid is basically the most famous thing in Denmark for some reason. However, it's currently in Shanghai for the World Expo 2010. I had no choice but to stand in for her.

Some of the architecture was super modern and awesome, and it fit right in.

There was a hobo exhibit in the park. The fountain was pretty interesting, it had water flowing from that woman's nipples.

Copenhagen was interesting, but not really that eventful. Lots of seeing cool stuff. The biggest event that happened in Copenhagen was getting stranded outside of our couchsurfers house while we wanted to make dinner. We also went dumpster-diving, but didn't find anything good.

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