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Soongies' Great Adventure
Despite getting in late last night, Stef prepared an amazing breakfast spread for all of us - warm bread rolls, eggs, cheese, cucumber, capsicum and grapefruit juice! It was one of the best breakfasts we've had in a long time and it was great chatting with good company to start the day. It was a rainy day - apparently Hamburg is typically rainy and gloomy - but it was fine as we were going to spend most of the time in the car driving to Copenhagen. We took the autobahn up towards Flensberg and crossed the border in Denmark just north of the town. We got pulled over by border police who were extremely friendly. We needed to show our passports and one of the officers was surprised to see Australian passports (seeing as we were driving a French car). He was pretty excited and started talking about how he knew a Tom and Elizabeth in Deakin University in Melbourne and when Calvin said he was from Sydney, he started talking about how he'd been there twice before and loved it. He had a look at the passport and gave them back but Calvin asked if he could stamp them, which he happily did. Continuing the drive north and then east, we crossed a couple of long bridges across the archipelago to Copenhagen where we checked into our Airbnb in Kastrup. This Airbnb was a private room in a home with a nice Danish/Indonesian family of three. It wasn't far from the centre of Copenhagen so we headed in to the city for the afternoon. We parked the car and headed straight for the nearest bakery for a snack - a carrot cake muffin with cream cheese frosting and a delectable looking pastry with a dollop of chocolate on the top. Unfortunately, the pastry with chocolate on the top contained a awful filling of chocolate and marzipan (tasted like cough medicine) - Calvin took an anithistamine after that. We had a look at Freetown Christiania, a veeeeeery strange place. It was a little spooky walking around the place - it sort of looked like it was an abandoned fun fair with large murals, graffiti, garishly painted shacks and dilapidated buildings. There were also a lot of people selling marijuana openly from little stands throughout the place. And if you couldn't see it, you could definitely smell it! We walked quickly (holding our breath at times) through to the other side without any hassles (and without getting high!) and crossed over the canal and back towards the centre. We stopped by the Copenhagen Street Food Market - a massive warehouse filled with food trucks and stalls selling cuisines from all over the world. It certainly wasn't street food prices! An average meal could cost $25! Instead of eating out, we bought vegetables and egg noodles from the supermarket, headed home and had a vegetable noodle stir fry. We also booked our flights to the USA!
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Amanda Good to hear you held your breath!