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Brussels

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Greetings from Belguim!
This is going to be short, and no photos because I haven’t had a chance to upload any here and I only have 10 min left of internet… so once again I only get to post and not read any of your lovely blogs and find out about life.
Brussels is a pretty cool city. There are some spectacular buildings from 1600s era – many of the fantastic ones around the main Market Square were all guildhalls and so are decorated with lots of statues and gold etc. We’ve mostly wandered around town, took the bus town to Waterloo today…
Tomorrow… AMSTERDAM!! Yay!

København Pictures!

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We’ve been here about 3 days now, and I was able to upload some pictures using Nina’s parents computer! It was quite grey on Wednesday when we went in to town, and it rained off and on. Yesterday it cleared up around lunch, so it was nice then – we got to go up King Christian’s Round Tower from which you get a great view of town (one of the King Christians, not sure which one. Pretty much every Danish king has either been Christian or Frederik) and we saw the Little Mermaid Statue. Much cooler than the girl in the wetsuit at Stanley Park.
Today, we took the train up to Helsingør where we checked out the town and Kronenborg – the castle which Shakespear used for the setting of Hamlet! That was pretty sweet. The only thing that would have made it sweeter is if there had been one of the live, on-site productions of Hamlet on when we were there. After wandering around, we decided to take the ferry over to Helsingborg, so, 20 min later, we were in Sweden! They didn’t even ask to see passports. So we wandered around there looking at some cool Medieval buildings – a tower and a Danish Gothic Church – then took the ferry back to Helsingør and trained back to Copenhagen.
Anyway, so here are those pictures. Enjoy!

The Little Mermaid

A Canal in Copenhagen

Rosenborg Castle, where the Crown Jewels are kept

View of Copenhagen from the Round Tower – the bridge to Malmo (I think) is in the background

UPDATE: for some bizzare reason, the computer doesn’t want to upload any pictures of Hamlet’s castle, so you’ll have to wait to see them.

Copenhagen

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We’ve made it to Copenhagen! We arrived sometime yesterday afternoon and spent all day walking around town and saw the Crown Jewels (hokey dinah!!!) and some castles, churches and really cool buildings and boats and stuff. Its been lost of fun hanging out with Nina (from Hillsong College days!) and staying at her parent’s house (thanks parents!). Tomorrow, Natalie and I are planning to head up to Helsingør and check out Hamlet’s castle (yes, that is Hamlet from Shakespear) and take the ferry over to Sweden so we can say we’ve been there.
It rained a bunch off and on today, but its supposed to be nice tomorrow…

We’re off!

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We’re leaving today… flight is at 1410 and we arrive sometime tomorrow afternoon in Copenhagen. Yay! I’ll try to keep everyone posted on what is going on, unless of course it interferes with having too much fun. 🙂

Europe

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Wow. I leave for Europe on Monday. That is really soon! I’ll be posting from there when I get email and, if I am as ambitious as I was in China, I’ll be emailing home from there. Let me know if you want to be included on the list!
Nat and I spent all afternoon planning out stuff and booking some hostels online so we have places to stay when we arrive after a flight or something. Its looking pretty good!! There are some links and a rough itinerary down the side…