This is to update you on my last week, in Copenhagen. You know that I arrived Saturday afternoon at Copenhagen Airport, from which I took bus number 9 to Bredgade and walked to Brian's place. We had pizza and a few beers, and he drove me to Birketinget on Amager, where I was going to stay in Jose's appartment, while he was on vacation in Spain. After dropping off my suitcases, we had more beers at Nyhavn, and I was home at 2 am.
Sunday I went to Form & Fitness at 11 with Brian, only to discover that they would either charge me 900 DKK for a month's subscription, or 200 DKK for a single training session. After seeing the expression on my face, she allowed me to train for free for that one time. At the bench pressure I did 4 reps with 90 kg. Sunday afternoon I spend in Valby at Groen Koncert, (as described in my entry of 22 JUL 2002) with Marianne and Morten from Egmont.
Monday (23 JUL 2002) I did some shopping and some banking business, and then went to visit my former collegues at Orange at 14:00. Helped getting a SF480 into IT6, and saw their two new HP Super Domes and two new Compaq GS320s. They are black! What have the done - I like the alpha CPU and I liked the color - topgun blue - but now the GS320s are black! The resident Compaq technician said it's because they're 1GHz machines... Duh. After Orange I went to visit Jesper and Ingelise at Noerrebrogade. They served me dinner and I entertained them with the tales of my life as an expatriate.
Tuesday (24 JUL 2002) my parents and I picked up my brother, Jes, from the airport, arriving from South America. We ate at Cafe Krunch on Oeresundsvej, and then spend the rest of the afternoon and evening in Lyngby at my uncle's place, where my aunt and uncle and my cousins from Luxembourg were also staying. Very nice family-get-together.
Wednesday (25 JUL 2002) I went to see the dentist (interesting: I didn't have to pay for it. My health insurance situation is a little special since I'm working for the German part of a Danish Company, in Germany, and I am medically covered in both Denmark and Germany, but not paying the taxes for it in either of the countries), and then went shopping for outdoor equipment with Bo, Jes, and Jan, who flew to Kamchatka north of Japan Friday the 27th. At 19:00 I met with 14 others from Etnica Culinaria at Den Persiske Stue on Noerrebrogade for dinner and beers.
Thursday I took the train with Charlotte and Karen to meet with Niels, Anna and little 6-month old Anton in Malmoe, Sweden. We had coffee and later dinner at their place. Saw the big crane at the harbour: 140 meters tall, 185 meters wide. They were supposed to take it down Saturday to move it to Korea, but according to http://www.kranspan.nu/camera/huge.jpg it's still there (while I'm writing this).
Friday I had lunch with Per, who subrents my appartment at Amager and then lifted weights with Valery at Egmont from 17. Still only 4 reps with 90 kg, but also 1 rep (very slowly) with 100 kg. Now I'm a proud member of the 0,1 ton club... Friday Jes, Bo, and Jan flew to Kamchatka. They'll be back in a month. In the evening I did laundry and moved my stuff from Jose's appartment to Brian's appartment at Nyboder.
Saturday I had brunch at Cafe Norden with Palle and Lars, and later went to Bellevue Beach with Servio. Had dinner with Servio and Jose at Eva's place, before we went to Park Cafe to enjoy Copenhagen by night.
Sunday I woke with a hang over, but still managed to meet Caroline for brunch before I caught the 14:10 flight home to Frankfurt. I used the so-called 'e-ticket' where you don't get a real ticket, instead you use your credit card to get the boarding pass directly from a terminal. Copenhagen Airport was very busy but since I did not have to wait in a line to check-in I could go straight to security and to the gate. Nice. I really recommend the 'e-ticket' - it's a great time saver! On top of that, the nice lady at the gate didn't have any aisle seats left, so she had to upgrade my seat to first-class, where I'd then sit in the middle. She hoped I didn't mind too much. In Frankfurt I had to wait one hour for the HEAG Frankfurt/Darmstadt Airliner bus, because the busses are on strike. So when the bus finally came, we didn't have to buy tickets - it was "on the house".