I'm in Denmark
FYI, all previous entries are timestamped for Central
(U.S.) time. Starting with this one, they are
timestamped for Central European Time. That's seven
hours ahead of most of my current readership. Lest
you think I was posting from the future.
We got in at around 7pm and took an expensive taxi ride to Herlev. We had too much luggage to deal with the train, esp. as it would have involved transfers, so I think it was worth it. I wanted to see the condo, check out the neighborhood, etc. and I thought it would be a great idea to drop our bags off, and then take the train to Nivå with just one bag of "overnight" stuff. As the condo has no furniture, food, toiletries, etc. we are staying at T's parents' place in Nivå until we get the essentials up and running in Herlev.
The condo is good. Dirty, in need of some work, but good. It will be workable after a good scrub and some paint, and the rest of the work can be done incrementally as money and time are available. The neighborhood is good. Food and shopping are closeby, including several kebab places, and a thrift store. There's a pet supply shop, but I reserve excitement until I can go into it. There's also a sewing place, and thank goodness, a stone mason. I don't know what I'd do without that. There are also about 43 banks within a 2 block span. There's a small, yellow, thatched-roof cottage called "Wheel-man's House" (well, it's something like Hjulmands Hus, but that doesn't help most of my readers, does it?) Although we found the hours it's open, and an affirmation that everyone is welcome, we never found anything indicating what happens there. There's also a bakery, a cheese shop, a fruit shop, an H&M, a Netto, a Kvicky… hehe. We also passed by a sign that says "FART KONTROL." Danish will take some getting used to.
We ate at Herlev Pizza and Kebab. The pita kebabs are smaller than the ones we used to get at Nivå, but still quite tasty. Smoking is allowed inside, but the Nivå kebab place didn't have an inside at all, and it closed down, so there you go. It's about a one-and-a-half minute walk from the door, so that's great. I was a little unimpressed with their drink selection. I'm not really into milk-based products, so the caffeine-free selection was: Fanta orange, Fanta tropical, and Squash orange. I was kinda hoping for a Faxe Kondi but what can you do. We'll have to check out the other kebab places too.
We went back to the condo to pick up our overnight bag, but T decided he was too lazy to pick out overnight items, so took his entire hard-sided luggage as well as his backpack. Then on the way to the train station, he complained about how heavy it was and asked me to help him. Men.
We got to Nivå finally, at something like 10:57pm. I know it ended in a 7. I was dozing off intermittently on the train ride, so cut me some slack. At least I woke up before the stop. Then we got here and yaaaaay my cats are here! I can tell by petting them the food they've been eating is not that great. Their silky smoothness is gone.
But they are happy and were happy
to see me. I woke up to Tycho atop my head,
purring and kneading just like he always did
before. *sniff*
So now it's time to go furniture shopping for the condo. (Or rather, wake T up so we can go shopping time.) I'd like to get the condo in stay-overnight-able condition before T's parents get back from their summerhouse.
We got in at around 7pm and took an expensive taxi ride to Herlev. We had too much luggage to deal with the train, esp. as it would have involved transfers, so I think it was worth it. I wanted to see the condo, check out the neighborhood, etc. and I thought it would be a great idea to drop our bags off, and then take the train to Nivå with just one bag of "overnight" stuff. As the condo has no furniture, food, toiletries, etc. we are staying at T's parents' place in Nivå until we get the essentials up and running in Herlev.
The condo is good. Dirty, in need of some work, but good. It will be workable after a good scrub and some paint, and the rest of the work can be done incrementally as money and time are available. The neighborhood is good. Food and shopping are closeby, including several kebab places, and a thrift store. There's a pet supply shop, but I reserve excitement until I can go into it. There's also a sewing place, and thank goodness, a stone mason. I don't know what I'd do without that. There are also about 43 banks within a 2 block span. There's a small, yellow, thatched-roof cottage called "Wheel-man's House" (well, it's something like Hjulmands Hus, but that doesn't help most of my readers, does it?) Although we found the hours it's open, and an affirmation that everyone is welcome, we never found anything indicating what happens there. There's also a bakery, a cheese shop, a fruit shop, an H&M, a Netto, a Kvicky… hehe. We also passed by a sign that says "FART KONTROL." Danish will take some getting used to.
We ate at Herlev Pizza and Kebab. The pita kebabs are smaller than the ones we used to get at Nivå, but still quite tasty. Smoking is allowed inside, but the Nivå kebab place didn't have an inside at all, and it closed down, so there you go. It's about a one-and-a-half minute walk from the door, so that's great. I was a little unimpressed with their drink selection. I'm not really into milk-based products, so the caffeine-free selection was: Fanta orange, Fanta tropical, and Squash orange. I was kinda hoping for a Faxe Kondi but what can you do. We'll have to check out the other kebab places too.
We went back to the condo to pick up our overnight bag, but T decided he was too lazy to pick out overnight items, so took his entire hard-sided luggage as well as his backpack. Then on the way to the train station, he complained about how heavy it was and asked me to help him. Men.
We got to Nivå finally, at something like 10:57pm. I know it ended in a 7. I was dozing off intermittently on the train ride, so cut me some slack. At least I woke up before the stop. Then we got here and yaaaaay my cats are here! I can tell by petting them the food they've been eating is not that great. Their silky smoothness is gone.
But they are happy and were happy
to see me. I woke up to Tycho atop my head,
purring and kneading just like he always did
before. *sniff*
So now it's time to go furniture shopping for the condo. (Or rather, wake T up so we can go shopping time.) I'd like to get the condo in stay-overnight-able condition before T's parents get back from their summerhouse.
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