Today I spent the first half of the day in Hamburg, Germany. I was able to walk through some of the parks, down by the docks, and downtown. Then I got on a train which headed north toward Denmark. At one point, the entire train moved onto a ferry for an hour to cross a part of the Baltic Sea. In the evening, I arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the train station, my couch surfing host, Jesper, picked me up and drove around on a quick tour of the city. Then we had some traditional Danish food (meat & potatoes). Jesper is an IT consultant and also a wood craftsman (made his own speaker cabinets and tables).
I finally bought a used novel that I can read on long train rides. I haven’t had a chance yet, since German and Danish trains have lots of plugs in them, so I could keep my computer going and have been reading eBooks on there.
Denmark is the first Scandinavian country I’ve visited. They don’t use Euros here and the language is Danish (although English is widely spoken).