First day of 2017

We woke up after twelve o'clock after sleeping nicely for eleven hours. We got ready and to center to catch a bite in the afternoon. There wasn't really much to do since everything was shut.

We went to eat and after that wandered around and then went for coffee. We took a metro for one stop to walk around the Nyhavn at night. Then decided to head back home and watch a movie.

On the second of January we left for a shopping mall called Field's. Took at metro there and shopped around a while. Also ate THE WORST wok box ever in the shopping mall food court. Literally dry noodles, pieces of chicken and pieces of pineapple.

On the third it was time to catch our 17.00 flight back home! Really nice gettaway with my TWIN <3

New Year 2016

So last night was interesting.

We made our way to the Meatpacking District which is a mecca for young hipsters with good restaurants and bars. The first bar was tiny hippie place and after we tried to find this bar called Jolene but couldn't find it. Most of the places around there were restaurants so we ended up taking an Uber back to the center.

Walked a while until went in to this Torst bar with small bottles of wine for 45DKK. Problem solved for the night. That's were the craziness started. After at least 6 small bottles of wine we went to dance and ditched these guys that had talked with us, left them with our jackets. :D Dancing, more drinking, one fight (three guys) that started because these two guys fought over Trina. After we ran out with our jackets, went to this other place for one drink with these english guys but basically left straight home..

Went for couple of drinks and got home with Uber maybe aroun 3 am. What happened? :D

All last night and today Trina has been suffering a lot from a massive hangover.. I felt surprisingly okey.. I left at 16.00 to find a supermarket to buy some snacks and soda. Well that trip took me 2,5 hours. First waited for the bus for 30 minutes (the buses are always on time here except this time!) and hopped to this other one I knew would also go towards the center.. All the supermarkets on the way were closed, so I thought that in the center there must be something open.. The bus ride ended up taking 50 minutes!! Got of at the end stop and was totally lost. After a while found myself to the familiar streets and noticed that the whole center was closed from cars and buses. And so were the supermarkets, great. Found this one take away chinese from were I bought some food to go.

Waited the bus 2A for maybe 10 minutes untill I noticed it doesnt even run from there at the moment.. I walked to the next stop and run for the bus. It was packed!!

Notices:
- loads of bikers with no helmets
- not many curtains on the windows at all. You can see straight in.
- people dressed really nicely for New Year.
-on 31th everything closed at 15.00..

Trina got up from bed at 18.00 and somehow we managed to head towards the center. Went to the same coffee / restaurant where we had been the day before also. Center was quite queit cause we had thought it's packed! Also the restaurants weren't packed and into anyone you could have gotten a table. We ate nice meal at Stella's and drank the lovely raspberry mojitos. Then quarter to twelve we started heading towards the square but didn't wanna go right in the middle but instead started heading already towards the bus stop if it would be packed!

The fireworks was okey, nothing special. In Helsinki center the square were middle go to there aren't really people firing the fireworks but it's like a show from the city. Here in the center square we couldnt really tell which were fireworks by watcher and which weren't. Thought it would be over in couple of minutes but it kept going on going. We hopped into the bus which was empty! All the way to our stop we could see loads of firework everywhere. People were gathered to every crossroads and fired them from in the middle of the roads.

Got of from the bus and our narrow streets were full of people in the doorways and in the open windows. Got in and could see looooads from our window and they only started to die down at 01.00!?! That was so weird!

Nyhavn and little mermaid

This morning we ordered the citypasses through internet straight to our phones for 72 hours for 200dkk. So easy and simple! We left for the center around noon with the bus 2A, it took us around 15 minutes. This time we got of at Forum St. and hopped into metroline 2 for Kongens Nytorv. It was around 200 meter walk to the famous colorful houses.

Wandered around for a while until we found a place with a hot salmon soup! Tiny cosy place by the water. The menu said salmon soup with shelfish which ended up being shrimps. The waitor warned us that it is a creamy soup. (Like we as Finns wouldn't know). It wasn't creamy soup it was cheesy and had three tiny peaces of salmon and maybe 5 shrimps.

After eating and couple of pictures we started walking towards the little mermaid statue that I wanted to see. It was freezing with the wind! Walking back we also saw the Amalienborg's castle and statue and also the Frederick's church.

Hot glögg!

Opera house

The little mermaid

Amalienborg's castle

Frederick's church

Then to Espresso House for warm drinks!

After we had melt we headed to the shopping street to shop. I felt like shopping?! I never do, hate shopping. Ended up spending over 100€ which is a lot for me!

Found this really nice and quite cheap restaurant / coffee / bar called Stella on a street called Kompagnistraede. Cocktails were 2 for the price of one (95DKK). I can highly recommend the rasberry mojito! So good! Also the food portions were quite big! :)

Then we headed home to shower and change, then heading to Kodbyen area where there are supposed to be some bars.

...to be continued... 

Copenhagen New Year 2016

Me and my sister left for Copenhagen for New Year since neither of us wanted to spend it in Helsinki!

We thought of going for longer and further away like to Philippines or New York but with my ringette season on we couldnt, yet again..

It took us months to decide where to go and we ended up in Copenhagen. :D

We book the flights quite late, tho we only ended up paying around 150€ / return. Accomadation we decided to take via AirBnB since it was over 40€ cheaper / night than a hotel would have been. Found this kind nice apartment rather close to center and we paid 40€/ a night / person.

On 29th we woke up after 3 am and and were at the airport before 5 am. The flight to Copenhagen took around 1 hour and 40 minutes which we managed to sleep somehow..

At the aiport we met our landlady Marta who came to give us keys to her apartment. We bought a metro ticket and hoped on to Metroline 2. Got off on second to last stop at Flintholm, hoped to bus number 13 for six stops and managed to get off at the right stop with Trina's maps when she put the mobile data on couple of times. The walk from the bus stop to our place was maybe 300 meters. After trying to figure out which door was ours since the doors didn't have any names on them we tried one and figured that it wasnt ours.

Nice little apartment, just perfect for us! :)

We took a bus 2A to citycenter and just started wandering around the narrow streets. We went to eat at Friends&Brgers tho I passed since my stomach felt shitty.. Shopping and wine was included in our day. We went to Irma for grocery shopping and then started heading back to our place. I was absolutely knackered for the day. We watched the movie Nerve and after at 8 o'clock I started sleeping and woke up 12,5 hours later. :D

Notices:
- Most people speak really good English!
-Loads and loads of bikes! Really wide bike streets next to the car lines
-Supermarkets Netto and Irma