soooo it's been 2 and a half months...

.... and i never told you about the rest of my trip!!! i've been so busy, sorry it's taken so long!!

so i headed to berlin with a girl that i had met at my hostel in dresden, she was headed for copenhagen and decided to see if she could get a bed at my hostel.... no luck, so she headed out to look for a room, i got settled in and decided to go wander around berlin until my friend kat got to the hostel (horray for running into friends on european journeys!) it was a beautiful sunny day, my hostel was close to the tv tower, so i decided to walk towards that... i found the birkenstock shop!! (one of many in germany, but still an exciting event) and went in for a look... about 30 seconds after i left i got a text from my mom saying "glad you made it to berlin! go buy yourself some shoes!" so good. i wandered down the street towards the brandenburg gate, and got distracted by friedrichstrasse, the main shopping street, after a good little stroll i grabbed some lychee green tea and headed back to the hostel to see if kat had gotten there yet.... she had not.... but i did run into some friends that i had met in greece! so we hung out for the rest of the evening. i went to bed wondering if kat was alive... and was awoken by 3 texts from her at 6 in the morning... ridiculous... haha, we met up for breakfast and went on the free tour, which was quite informative and very interesting, we went to the brandenburg gate, saw where mj (rip) dangled blanket out of the window, hitlers bunker, checkpoint charlie, the wall, the holocaust memorial, and various other berlin sights to see, it was a good day. *kat and i bought birkenstocks on the way back!! that makes 2 pairs for me! haha* that night kat and i went out for ice cream and met up with jared and grant (my friends that i had met in greece) and went to the reichstag and took the elevator to the top, what a beautiful view of berlin. we left and grant and jared wandered off so we got a "china box" (so delicious). we then wandered to the trendy nightlife part of berlin and watched a fire twirler and wandered back to our hostel to hit the hay. the next morning we decided to wander around the trendy area again and go shopping, we ended up laying on the grass in a park next to a pool filled with german children, basking in the warm summer sun, i was supposed to catch a train to hamburg that afternoon, but decided to take a later train, so kat and i went out for lunch at a nice restaurant (real food! we had been on a diet of bread for breakfast and falafel for lunch and dinner) we found an amplemann restaurant! so delicious. i had risotto and kat had a yummy pasta dish, we ate outside and had some good conversation and did some people-watching. i love berlin's cafe culture, i found it to be much more inviting and less terrifying than the cafe culture in paris, to sit outside in paris you must pay extra, buy a 30 euro meal, etc, etc... in berlin there are cafes everywhere! and they are affordable, and not snooty and just an overall good time... so after lunch kat and i went to the starbucks next door to the restaurant for a delicious after dinner treat (at less than fancy restaurant prices!). kat got a frozen strawberry lemonade frapuccino-thing and i got the most delicious piece of chocolate truffle cake. so freaking good. we then wandered back to the hostel, i got my bag, bid kat good travels, and headed for the train station.





when i got to hamburg it was about 5 or 6 in the evening and pouring rain. i decided to run for my hostel and check in. the rain let up so i walked to a nearby grocery store to get some food for dinner and breakfast, i was exhausted and cold, so i had a quiet night at the hostel, there was a tv in my room so i watched the sports channel, which had a diving competition on! horray!





the next morning i woke up bright and early and hopped on the train to copenhagen! the swedish girls in the seats in front of me were watching gossip girl! season 2, so good. so fun fact about taking the train to copenhagen, the whole train goes onto a ferry!! so cool, they tell you to get off, leave your stuff and go wander around the ferry, and get back onto the train in 45 minutes when the ferry is almost there, so cool, so i went up to the seating area and watched gossip girl with the girls from the train.





it was rainy in copenhagen too. boo. i was hoping for 3 days of sunshine. oh well. i walked to my hostel and checked in. i went to my bed, in a room with 66 tiny bunkbeds. i barely fit into my bottom bunk! i definitely couldn't sit on it without being crouched over to avoid hitting my head... i went to explore copenhagen, i walked down the main shopping street, the stroget, and had a wonderful time window shopping and people watching. i stopped at the grocery store on my way back to the hostel. oh boy. everything is so expensive in denmark. even at the grocery store. a pint of ben and jerry's was 10 us dollars. a liter and a half of coke was about 6-8 us dollars. so expensive. it was at this point that i realized that i would not be able to eat out at all in denmark. i grabbed the cheapest bag of pasta and the cheapest sauce, some cheese and some bread and prayed that it would last me my three nights in copenhagen. the next day i took the train to malmo, sweden (only 30 minutes away by train, across the bridge) and walked around, it was a cute little town, good for a day trip. the next day i woke up bright and early, ready to see all copenhagen had to offer, i saw the planetarium, and went to the huge graveyard where hans christian andersen is buried, which is absolutely beautiful. it is huge, green and so peaceful (i walked by two people making out on a bench, in a cemetary? really? so bizarre, copenhagen, so bizarre) i dropped my camera and broke it while i was there, which was quite upsetting. after the seeing the cemetary, i walked by the smaller jewish cemetary and then way north to see the little mermaid, which was pretty sweet. on my way back to the hostel for lunch i saw the rosenborg castle. that night i hung out with my friends, travis from seattle, shelby from georgia, and doigo from portugal, we met a group of belgian girls and a few guys from england and hung out in the hostel that night. the next day i checked out and put my stuff on shelby's bed. shelby, travis and i went to the micro-nation christiania, which is basically a hippie commune in the middle of copenhagen. it was a fun little excursion. we made pasta for lunch, shelby contemplated coming to london with me and in the end decided against it. travis, shelby, diogo and i had ice cream at the delicous ice cream place in the square near our hostel (best ice cream from my trip, so goood). and i said my goodbyes and headed for the airport



my plane to london was delayed. so delayed. it got into london 2 hours after it was supposed to. i had told my hostel that i would be there at 10, i got there at 1 because the train that went to kings cross wasn't running anymore so i had to take a train to victoria and then wait for a bus to kings cross. thank goodness i had been to this hostel before, i got in soooo late. found my bed and crashed out. the next morning i walked towards oxford circus. shopping!!! i had a wonderful time at topshop and primark and met up with my friend nick,whom i had met in nice, he took the train in for the day to see me! horray! we ate fish and chips and drank a pint for lunch, then we went to the british museum. there we saw the rosetta stone and all sorts of egyptian artifacts! so cool. we walked to the thames and chilled on a bench for a bit. we then walked back to oxford circus, i had a cornish pasty for dinner which was quite delicious. we went to platform 9 3/4 which fulfilled my nerdy tourist-y ness for the day. nick took the train home and i went back to my hostel. there i met a girl from seattle and 2 girls from new zealand. the girl from seattle and i went to the bar in the basement of the hostel for a drink and then we wandered to a nearby pub where i had a delicious bulmers pear cider. which is one of my favorite drinks ever. so good.

the next morning i got up bright and early, ate some breakfast, and took the tube to the airport! hopped on my plane which was on time and arrived in denver an hour earlier than scheduled! horray!

well that's the end of my trip....

until my next adventure!

thanks for reading!!!