Reunited with my Dane.

Landed with a delay from Doha around 30 minutes late. Took about 30 minutes to get through passport control and another 20 for my little suitcase to appear. Thank goodness I put blue tape on it to identify it. It’s Stella’s case so I had completely forgotten what it looked like.

Walked through the glass door to a throng of people and I thought ‘oh golly Stella better see me. As I would never spot her’. Then she did! ‘Virgo’ she calls and comes running all pretty in a pink dress and throws her arms around me!!! Nine weeks since I have seen her! Yay!! I have arrived!

Coincidence... her Auntie had flown in from the Fair Islands about an hour earlier so she waited for me as well. Little Danish flags in their hands waving hello.

Meet and greets, cuddles and get me the hell out of the airport. I want fresh air!

Flights were AMAZING! Exit seats and all the leg room. Slept for 8 hours so I feel fine.

Off to get on a train and 6 stops to Nørreport. Walked out of the station to a beautiful sunny 26 degrees and picture perfect Denmark. Cobblestones and coloured out buildings.

I love cobblestones but with a suitcase could probably do without them. People walking the canels and bikes everywhere. Honestly the cliched pictures you have of Denmark I was witnessing it!! Amazing!

About 10 minutes walk alongside the canal with icecream stalls and tourist towards the Admiral hotel.

Up to reception. ‘Hello!!! Emily Arch checking in. I have booked the best room in the house’ I say.
Lovely man who said he must check this for me.
‘Oh there appears to have been a mistake with your reservation. We have you in a standard room but all we have available is a deluxe’ he said cheekily. ‘Well’ I reply. ‘If that’s all you have I will have to make that work’. Hahahaha

A walk down a long corridor with brick arches and to our beautiful room with the biggest wooden beams in the roof. It’s perfect. At the back of the building so no waterfront view buts it’s lovely.

Shower!

Off to the waterside our the back. People are sun baking and swimming. We find ourselves some deck chairs and relax with a pitcher of Dark and stormy cocktail and soak up the sun! Oh how I missed you sunshine!

Perfect start to my arrival day!

Dinner! What’s Vegan here?! Lol constant struggle. Please just bring me a bottle of nice wine, red. Yep don’t care you pick. We will deal with the menu afterwards lol.

Great waiter. Anything that I pick can then be also made without the fish or steak for Stella. So we relax into our sea side table. Relishing the weather, view, wine, food and each other’s company.

It’s around 8:30 and I’m getting tired so it’s time to call an end to this arrival day. Keep the blind open so I know when it’s daylight and ok to wake up!Lue lisää

Ok so Mai Tai’s are certainly great... who doesn’t like a flaming drink! However they can put you on your ass pretty quickly 😂
Tall glass and 3/4 full of alcohol 😬

So today was a bit rough. Very late start to the day. We caught the train into Schönleinstraße and Lasse did warn us of the drug deals happening here. Quite a few people running around trying to get something and dealing in the open. Christiania has nothing on this train station!

Found a hair dresser for Lasse and I but I started feeling so rotten I decided it wasn’t for me today.

Walked in and apparently this was a woman’s hairdresser, the men’s was a few doors down. The area is quite Turkish so made sense.

Lasse cut his hair off! Looks fantastic!!

Ok I need to go home. Back to the train and Stell and Lessa put me on the bus home whilst they went off to buy some food and perfume.

They returned a couple of hours later. I feel better and they bought all the food.

We had a picnic in the lounge room!Lue lisää