Travel ups and downs

I'm back in Copenhagen! I missed it, definitely. Who would have thought Albertslund would ever be a welcome sight for me?

I had such an amazing time in the different cities I was in and even traveling between them wasn't that bad, for the most part.

Some high (and low) lights: If you actually know me, I'm sure you'll hear longer stories about this trip when I get back, but I am way too tired right now to write everything that happened. Plus, it would be way too long to read.

:Riding the London Eye



:Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, a pub that was rebuilt in 1667


:The Charles Dickens museum, located in one of his old houses


:Shooting this protester for my photojournalism assignment and watching him and a "Heritage Warden" get in to a shouting match


:Eating scones and drinking tea on a cruise down the Thames

:The British War Museum's Holocaust exhibit

:Camden, London, a really cool alternative neighborhood

:Old Spitalfields Market. I literally went there four times, though the last two were both to look for something I saw on the second trip (which I didn't find again)

:Being in the East End and the West End and thinking of the Pet Shop Boys song

:The ferry ride from England to Holland was pretty cool, even though I got seasick. The ferry had a casino and about six restaurants in it, not to mention two movie theaters. It also showed one too many Britney Spears music videos

:A carnival ride in Amsterdam that first rocked my world then messed with it. What's with European rides lasting five times longer than American ones?

:Introducing Becca& Kathryn to soft ice
:Seeing the Nightwatch, both in person and in 3-D sculpture form


:Amsterdam in general was really fun. And food in Amsterdam. Helllooo 77-Euro cent Doritos!

:Losing Kathryn and Becca at Amsterdam Centraal and winding up just taking a train to Eindhoven myself, then remembering after the first train stop that they were going to take a bus, THEN getting a €50 fine because I bought a student ticket and despite being a student, I was somehow not eligible for the student price. Eventually I found them at the airport so it all worked out

:The adorable child who sat in front of me on the plane and discovered that when she threw her Teletubby toy behind her chair it magically reappeared back there (I was playing along)

:The air pressure on the plane messing with my ear so I couldn't hear for like four hours out of one ear

:Being really sick once I got to Milan


:Did I mention non-stop coughing?

:Il Duomo

:The stores!! The Prada, the Dolce and Gabbana, the AMAZING shoes

:One word:GELATO


:That wonderful feeling of not being able to breathe

:Leaving my purse on a bench at the Metro station (I have never done this before, ever, by the way, and of course I decided to lose my purse in Italy), frantically running around to get back to that station to find it, asking security about it and having him point to a guy literally inches away from walking out of the station who had found my purse and seemed almost as happy to be giving me back my purse as I was to be getting it back (It had my passport in it, for goodness' sake! And my camera!), and even insisted that I check it to make sure it was all there and that he hadn't even opened it. Can you say lucky?

:With a combination of a late plane and a long bus, got in to Stockholm at 1:15 a.m. The train station had closed at 1, so I set up an impromptu hobo camp, sat on the sidewalk wearing as many layers as I could, surrounded by my worldly possessions. It was cold. Very cold. Then a crazy man came up to me and told me his life story. Then the train station opened finally.

Ugh and then I got back to Copenhagen FINALLY and it was awesome.

I have hundreds of photos but for some reason either Blogger or this firewall isn't letting me post them, so just hold tight! (Or if you're in college, just look at my facebook)