Copenhagen, Denmark Sept 9-10

 

Yesterday was a very long day. We had to get here.  Now that we are here we leave for New York, or Brooklyn, we don’t know. 

Yesterday started in Echternach, Luxembourg, packing and getting out of our room by 10 am even though our bus didn’t leave until after 4 pm.  So we hurried and waited.  Finally we got a ride to town and across the bridge into Germany, where we waited for the bus.  We had arrived by bus from Trier 5 days earlier and we were surprised when the bus arrived in Echternach early.  It not only arrived early but it left early.  So, we were concerned that it might be early again, so we got to the stop at 3:30.

So far so good.  We checked the bus schedule on a pole and did not see a bus scheduled for 4:10, as the internet had told us.  So we stewed for more than 1/2 hour making back-up plans in our heads.  At about 4:05 a man joined us in our wait, so we felt a little more secure, until he started checking his watch.  The bus was 15 minutes late.  We were covered in sweat by then.

But it did come and it did take us to the train station in Trier, where we caught the train to Koln, or Cologne in English.  From Cologne we caught a night train to Copenhagen.  If you have never taken a night train in Europe, don’t go out of your way to do it.  We shared a cabin with 2 other people, because we splurged and went for a room with 4 rather than 6 people, and we had to find places for our luggage and stuff ourselves into sheet sleeping bags and try to sleep on rock hard surfaces.  You might have noticed I did not say mattress because we were sleeping on what became the seats in the day time. 

So we are very tired now and will go to bed early, but we must have been bad children because we have to go to bed without dinner.  We were told that all places in Copenhagen take VISA, so we spent most of our Euros before we got here.  Well, our experience has been different.  Yes it is Sunday, but so far no one has been willing to take our card and we don’t want to get local money for just one day.  One of the adventures.

Tomorrow we may have ice cream from the hotel for breakfast, because we can get all the food we want when we get on the ship. So until we talk again after we are on board…..