Thursday 22nd September
Onwards
from our picturesque campsite we set our sights on Copenhagen, the last stop on
our tour of the Scandinavian capitals. It turned out to be a beautiful drive through
the lakes and fjords punctured by scatterings of idyllic island retreats. We
then crossed the Øresund Bridge that connects the
Swedish city of Malmo to Copenhagen, Denmark. This magnificent piece of
engineering is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe running
nearly 8km from the Swedish coast to the artificial island of Peberholm in the
middle of the strait.
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| The Øresund Bridge |
The 4km Drogden Tunnel then completes the crossing to the
Danish Island of Amager. Despite the eye watering toll of €48 the spectacular
views of the Øresund strait certainly made up for not being able to eat for the
rest of the day. This set a predictable precedent for the rest of the day. Not
just a burning hole in our pockets, the whole thing was ablaze. It was £6.50 a
pint for Christ’s sake! Anyway, enough about how poor us students are; it’s
expensive, we get it.
After a pleasant lunch we made a vague attempt to sightsee
before settling in a nearby park to drink some beer and watch the world go by. We
were even honoured enough to be waited on hand and foot by a couple of
gentlemen collecting empty beer cans for the recycling. At this point the topic
of future plans cropped up in conversation as we still didn’t have a fixed end
date or even a reason to return to the UK at all. We had originally
toyed with the idea of driving to Krakow so we could visit Auschwitz, however
after one split-second look at the map we realised what an idiotic suggestion that
was.
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| Copenhagen, Denmark |
Posted by: Rich