I'm now back from a very pleasant few days in and around Copenhagen on my half-term holidays. It's quite a wonderful place, and I'm already making mental plans for a return, maybe in the summer for a bit of a cycling tour. It was very cold, as I suppose one should expect if one visits Scandinavia in February, but although I'd like to return when it was a bit warmer, the cold does allow it to snow which added something to the place. It has quite a fairy-tale sort of feel to it in normal weather, but the snow made the old town look like the sort of scene you'd expect to see illustrated in a story book. It's not hard to see where Hans Christian Anderson got much of his inspiration from!
Other highlights of my short break include: walking around Hamlet's Elsinore Castle in the freezing cold and snow, lots of time to relax and read, lovely roommates in the hostel and ensuing evening conversations about home countries and the like, finding somewhere suitable to watch Ireland move one step closer to a first Six Nations trophy, finding a horse stable in the Carlsberg brewery and intrepid voyages decided over a cup of coffee while assessing one's options. A successful few days, me thinks.
It all has to end and it sometimes does so in a thump, as in this case. Tomorrow is the day decided for returning to school to plan lessons for the new term. Sigh.
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