. . . That is the sound of the kroners being sucked out of your wallet in Denmark. Copenhagen is the most expensive place we've ever been. It's a pretty but unremarkable city. As we hadn't booked ahead, quality hostels were booked and we ended up paying around $200 USD /night for a hotel room comparable in quality and 1/2 the size of a Motel 6 room at home. This is fair for Scandinavia. Meals were also the highest we've seen in Europe. Our plan had been to head up to the fjords in Norway, but further investigation showed the same costs in all of where we wanted to go in Scandinavia. So we cut it short and headed back down to Germany.
While in Copenhagen, we visited the Danish Resistance Museum, which housed the pictures, stories, and war paraphernalia of World War II Danish resistance fighters. One of the most interesting bits from this was where someone had used a pin to inscribe their concentration memoirs into a long scroll of toilet paper. The resistance fighters often did not survive the war, dying in raids, from torture and execution, or from taking cyanide to avoid being caught and disclosing vital information.
Truck/Tank, Danish Resistance Museum
Underground Newsletter Press, Photos, Paraphernalia,
Danish Resistance Museum
Danish Resistance Museum
The Famous, Serene Little Mermaid Sculpture
(what you don't see are the hordes of tourists jockeying for this same shot)
(what you don't see are the hordes of tourists jockeying for this same shot)
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