Tag: travel log

8/3/2001

07:10 Iceland!! 48°F in summer. Cool. What time is it?

12:50 Danish time!! Jumping and dancing in the sky. Not to much sleep so far. Land this sucker. Icy stewardess.

14:15 Denmark time. Danish Kronar. Simon is our guide. Mom’s hand carry is on the other bus. Bye. Bye. 4 billion bridge!!

14:50 Radisson Hotel. Confused because too much to do. It’s a beautiful hotel. Getting registered for the cruise.

15:50 We’re going out to town. Mistaken as a porter by some guests. Porn on TV. “Log Jammin'”

19:00 Tivoli Gardens is nothing more than Busch Gardens in Denmark. Can’t wait until Duff Gardens opens. Feet sore. Tired. Dinner at Shanghai Garden. Farther from home, the more we eat Chinese. Gerry is sleeping.

We went through European customs in Iceland, and then in two hours, we caught our transfer to Copenhagen, Denmark. This was the proper start of the cruise. We would stay in the city for a day before boarding the ship.

Now Copenhagen is a fine city from what I have seen of it. Tivoli Gardens is there amusement park featured in the center of the city. Some Filipino maids told us how to get there by walking. Almost all maids or hotels workers we ran into were Filipinos. The main attraction is a shopping promenade which we walked and found a Chinese restaurant. The waiter was from Canada and complained about the taxes. Across the street was the a large Tuborg Beer sign. The suite we had in the hotel must have been the business man special, because we got porn movies. We did not watch much because I thought we would have to pay for it. The porn was not on the hotel bill I paid.

Aug. 3, 2001

0:30? -> I don’t know the time. Walked around the plane. Drunks in the back. When do we land? listening to the oldies channel. Better than really bad Euro film, “Russian Doll.” Naked Mariah Carey on the screen?

??? 2 hours to go. The kids in the front ringing the stewardess button. Hot stewardesses. Blonde!

??? Greenland on the left and the sun’s coming up. That’s so cool. The kids up front finally losing their energy and going to sleep. Waiting for “start me up.”

It was a six hour flight to Iceland where we had a lay over before continuing onto Copenhagen, Denmark. We left around 8:30 pm, which would have put us in Iceland around 2:30 am EDT or about 6:30 in the morning. Smokers and drinkers were in the back. The movie was atrocious and must have catered to the Europeans on the flight, so I didn’t bother to watch it. Greenland was a darker shade in the dark shadows of night. I think there was no moon during the flight. Greenland loomed rather large in the plane’s window or was it just the Artic Ocean? The onboard radio station had only one good channel of music and also, I believe, a comedy channel. I remember listening to Neil Young’s “The needle and the damage done” at least 10 times during the trip if not more. Made me want to learn the song on my guitar. Can’t wait to see Iceland’s airport. I want to see land soon.

Aug. 2, 2001

Iceland Air

20:00 -> plane to Reykjavik is late will board @ 20:20

22:45 -> served dinner. stuffed shells & spinach, salad, bread, choc. cake. bland but good to fill stomach

I was raring to get this vacation going. Nervous, because of flying. Anxious to see Scandinavia. Was dying to see Iceland. Interesting that I noted the airline food. Iceland Air was not a major airline. I think that it is somewhat a budget way to travel to Europe. The best thing is that they have direct flights from BWI. No need to stop at Newark or JFK for an international flight; it’s just one airport to Europe.