Mar
4
Copenhageners love their 7-11
Posted at 4:10 am by Patrick under Copenhagen Pub Crawl:2007
In our 26 hours and 5 miles of walking around the city, we found out something strangely interesting:
There have got to be hundreds of 7-11 stores here! They’re all open 24 hours, serving the type of fare that you expect at home.
Lines of shriveled, rotating hot dogs? Yep.
Ten types of flavored coffee? Of course!
Slurpees in long-straw-equipped 24-ounce cups? Unbelievably, YES! In both Coke and blueberry flavors!
This sign is at the Copenhagen airport, just before the Terminal 2 lobby. It’s good to know you can get a quick Slurpee® fix right before your flight to the center of the Slurpee® universe.
¡Vive la capitalisme!
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Mar
4
Houseboats. Why bother?
Posted at 2:20 am by Patrick under Copenhagen Pub Crawl:2007
As we looked over our lodging options for this brief trip, Mark and I passed over more prosaic hotel options for the charm of a houseboat on a quiet downtown canal.
What a mistake that was.
At first, the Donna Wood (pictured above) seemed quaint enough — seven rooms on the bottom deck of a retired harbor patrol boat that could’ve been a convincing stunt double for a fishing trawler. But then the details got progressively nutty.
First up, no credit cards. Ouch. Then the compulsory add on fee for (mandatory) sheets, having to buy all three berths in the room to make it private…we’re starting to spend real hotel dollars here.
Then the owner, who we dubbed Captain Ron (one of Kurt Russell’s tour-de-force roles), told us about the curfew and shower peculiarities.
We didn’t realize what he meant until this morning. For the record, the alternating splash of hot water followed by a bilge pump’s volume of cold water does *not* qualify as a warm shower.
Good times.
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