Marielyst

After lunch we headed on to our overnight in Marielyst which is near the ferry we take in the morning. We walked down to the beach and through the small town which had a pedestrian area which we were not expecting. It was pretty nice and they even have a wooden walkway to go out on the water and go swimming so you don’t even have to walk in the sand if you don’t want to. And a path running along the dunes which looked pretty nice.

After a wander it was back to our place for dinner - our empanadas (chili sin carne and Mediterranean eggplant - both super tasty!) and our fresh toast. Everything was so good! After dinner we took another walk downtown just because I like a short after dinner walk and also I had forgotten about this tower you could walk up and spy out on. It has started raining when we were out earlier so I had forgotten about it until we got home. It is not that high, but still nice to see a bit out over everything.

The weather today has been a bit colder (though this morning at were dying as it was so humid!) and raining off and on. When as got to breakfast this morning it started to rain, but luckily we had an awning over us, then when were were ready to leave it stared pouring for about 10 min so we waited to get going, and it rained off and on all day. It was just small 5-10 min rain clouds rolling through with a lot of wind, then super sunny afterwards and not as windy. I was really glad we had Pokémons yesterday! We would have made it work, but trying to play in the rain is a pain as your screen gets wet and then it doesn’t work right and you have to try and dry it off and yeah it is not the best. Plus if you get wet that’s not fun and the cold wind = colder when wet so not good. We got really lucky with the weather yesterday! And for the most part we were not out in the rain today, just saw it.

I’m also really glad we are not staying at that apartment in Copenhagen anymore. It was…okay. A good location, but it was someone’s apartment they live in, which is fine, but I guess there is a company in Copenhagen that facilitates renting it out when you are gone that brings in cleaners to do a clean before renters get there and probably after as well. Well the apartment felt not very clean. Like the cleaners vacuumed and wiped counters and stuff, but it didn’t seem like the people who lived there really cleaned much. We wipe everything down that is non-fabric when we get somewhere and Raymond did the light switches and he said when he wiped them a thick layer of dirt came off…plus their hairdryer and stuff was in a box on the shelf in the bathroom and I have never seen a hairdryer that was that dirty…I don’t even understand how it got so bad so it was not great. But the worst part? It was freezing! Like it has been a high of 16C during the day and down to 10C at night and there was no heat. A lot of places in Berlin have the same system where I guess there is a central boiler for the heating of the apartment building that is only turned on once it gets cold in the fall and then turned off in the spring, and we wrote them to see if there was a way to turn the heat on and they were like umm…the heating get turned off for the building on May 1. We might be able to find a space heater somewhere… Which is crazy to me!! When we travel in the winter our temp setting is 16 to make sure things don’t get moldy or freeze and that was the high temp outside while we were here (and inside definitely stayed colder than outside)! I cannot believe it is turned off so early and the people don’t seem to mind? Like we were the crazy people not wanting to still wear every layer I was wearing outside plus needing the blankets from the bed and drinking hot tea to stay warm? Raymond was even cold and he normally is fine at colder temps than me…it was so strange! I don’t know how they do it. I in would need a space heater from May 1 - ? if it actually gets warm there! Next weekend there is supposed to be a heatwave in southern Germany and we will get a bit warm in Berlin (31C), but Copenhagen is only going to be 21C (which is a nice temp especially if the wind Is not cold!), but not really hot.

Copenhagen was also the most expensive place I have ever booked accommodations for! Norway might be as expensive or more I don’t know as we were in a camper, but the place we stayed was the cheapest place I could find when I looked in February and it was over 300 Euro a night which is crazy. It was definitely not worth paying that much for! I had originally planned to stay longer in Copenhagen as I wanted time to explore everything and eat all the things, but once I saw how expensive it was I changed my mind and only stayed as long as we needed to (I wanted a day of wandering and a day for Pokémon). I definitely would go back to Copenhagen for another visit, but phew it is expensive! But tomorrow we head home!Read more