Back from a weekend in Kopenhagen August 13, 2007
Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Gentoo, Me, Myself and I, On the road ... , add a commentLike mentioned in the last update of my little “tour-calendar” just some days ago, I spent the last weekend in Kopenhagen visiting Corny (and some other now-former-Gentoo Developers). Instead of my favourite airline Lufthansa I booked Skandinavian Airlines this time, mainly because Lufthansa doesn’t offer any nonstop-flights from Dusseldorf to Kopenhagen and the SAS flight was *very* cheap. It was my first flight with a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 (MD-82 to be precise) type machine ever on which I discovered that these machines are quite noisy …
On Friday evening we visited Kopenhagen’ Tivoli which basically is a leisure park in the middle of central Kopenhagen, it’s located nearly next to the main station. Their somewhat special pricing-system made it quite difficult for us, while being already lined up for the rollercoaster we found out, that we would need some additional tickets … well …. *sigh* … 10 Minutes later we were again lined up for the rollercoaster - this time with ride-tickets :P After taking some other rides we went out for some beers :)
Saturday was a classic-sightseeing day, we visited the little mermaid, Amalienborg Castle and other typical tourist attractions. For sunday Alexander Færøy organzied a little bbq-party at his place where some other people including Bryan Østergaard joined us and we grilled some “Pölser”, basically saucages. Before the bbq started we did a little touristic boat-trip around Kopenhagen’s harbour.
For the price of “wow, this is a really cheap flight!” I had to take the first plane back to Germany on early Monday morning - early as in “i needed get up at 5 in morning” which sucks. After I had a quite nice seat in one of the last tiers of the machine on the outbound flight I decided to take the same seat again - which was a really bad decision. Instead of a MD-82 SAS decided to operate this flight with a MD-87 which is a shorter variant of the MD-82. So … my quite nice seat in a MD-82 was a seat in the last tier of a MD-87, right next to the engines. Quite loud as I can tell :P The way from landing at DUS airport back home took me exactly 60 minutes - including baggage claim, transfer to the airport rail station, a 20 minutes train ride and 10 minutes to walk - wow!
