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20th Anniversary European Bike Adventure: Day 9, Copenhagen and beyond

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  One sad thing about the way our trip was structured is that we didn't have a lot of time in a lot of places that we would have liked to have a lot more time. Exhibit A: Copenhagen. We arrived in the morning on Saturday, stayed there Saturday night, and then departed Sunday late afternoon. I gotta say, though.. as I was reviewing photos and videos to write up this post for this day, I was pretty impressed with the number of things we managed to see in our short time there! Let's begin. Sunday morning. We decided to skip breakfast. HAHAHA! We all know that's not true. In fact, we were about to head out for a nice walk to breakfast, when Matt said, "No, wait, I found a place that's slightly further away, but much better!" And it was true.   The Laundromat Cafe. Evidently it really is a laundromat, but we were just there for breakfast. And to admire the amazing book display! He also managed to find a thing on the menu that was basically "Every br...

20th Anniversary European Bike Adventure: Day 8, Hamburg to Copenhagen

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  Where were we? Ah, yes, the Hamburg Train Station at midnight on a Friday. (To be fair, at the time I had no idea it was a Friday. We pretty much never knew what day of the week it was.) After we got off the train, we started looking around for signs that would point us to where we would catch our bus to Copenhagen. There was no urgency, because we had 3 hours between our train arrival and our bus departure. Plenty of time.   I assume this place is mostly lit by skylight during the day, because it was SO DARK at night. Except we couldn't figure out where the buses were. After looking at signs and diagrams, we decided to take a break and eat, because being hungry wasn't making us any better at searching and being patient. As much as we tried to eat local and pick things that were unique to the places we were.. when you're in a foreign country, don't speak the language well, and you're lost in a train station after midnight, sometimes you just eat the easie...