First we took Manhattan, now we take BERLIIIIN...

We've been to Copenhagen, Dublin, New York, Reykjavik, Malmø and Paris together. Now it is time to take on Berlin (!!!) Our January "escape" will be 4 nights in this legendary city. Hurrah! We have actually booked tickets and hotel, weeeeeeeeeee!!!
Søren and Steinunn

Kindergarden makes me sick...

So, I (Steinunn) finally dragged my ass to the doctor today. I've been sick, you see. I blame it on working with kids, because I have never been so often sick. The kids carry all sorts of germs. They never wash their hands... Then they come and give me a hug... Hmm.... will be nice to get out of the kindergarden.
But, anyway. The doctor was nice, a woman, and she told me that I had a few infections. My sinuses are infected, I have ear infection and my glands are swollen. To get rid of all this I have gotten pensilin (of course...) and some nose spray that should help as well.

Just another picture

Here's one final picture from Tivoli. We took a lot of pictures of the reflections in the pond, but this was the only one that wasn't completely shaken...

Christmas Came Early

Today Steinunn and I had a small preview of christmas. I got two tickets for the christmas fair in Tivoli from a kind person that I study together with at Journalism. The christmas fair doesn't officially open until tomorrow, so it was special privilege to get in there today.

The Old Garden (Tivoli) was covered in lights, pine branches and fake snow. It was all very beautiful, and it was nice to visit Tivoli without having to fight your way through crowds of people. We just walked slowly around the whole garden and admired all the lights and shiny objects. So it was a nice and unexpected experience. That being said, november 14th is probably a little early for any christmas related activities. Personally I'm not really feeling the christmas excitement just yet.

As always, we brought a camera - two actually - so here are some of the sights:

The old carousels look really pretty at night. Note the reflection in the puddle of water.


This is a giant plastic bubble (ca. 6 metres high) with a plastic castle inside it. It was supposed to have fake snow whirling around inside it, but it didn't seem to be working. The large building in the background is the restaurant "Nimb". The restaurant is going to close this winter, and the building will become an exclusive hotel.


A guy inside the giant bubble was trying to work some electrical fans. They were supposed to blow the fake snow around the bubble, but as soon as he left, the snow settled again.


This is Steinunn looking at pricey christmas decorations. All of Tivoli was filled with stands and shops selling all kinds of christmas items.


This thing is a 7 metre tall wooden reindeer on wheels... I guess it's the less-famous Trojan reindeer.


This picture was not taken in Tivoli. It is the sunrise as seen from our window this morning.

The latest, greatest...

Geez, all that rain! Someone is building an Ark in our garden, just in case. We are planning to buy a ticket on it. Just in case.

On Saturday, we swam through the streets of Copenhagen, and reached the National Museum where we ate brunch, in the courtesy of Anette (Søren’s sister), who had given Søren ‘brunch for two’ for his birthday. We sat there and ate delicious bacon, fruit, bread, eggs, jam, pesto… you name it, for an hour. Then we couldn’t stuff any more in our bellies and had to declare ourselves beaten by the beautiful brunch buffet. Steinunn lolled her way to Bella Center to meet up with Anna, Casper and Monika where she spent money on old cool things, while Søren lolled his way to the train and home to bed. Not feeling too good, snotty and coughing.

The weekend had been kick-started with dinner at Steinunn’s cousin Maggi (Magnús), and his fiancé (congrats again!) Steinunn (no jokes needed, there are more Steinunn’s than STEINUNN in the world…). They live next to the Carlsberg factory by Enghave, in a big and neat apartment. We had a really nice evening with good food and great company. Thanks for the invite guys! Oh, and Maggi got revenge over the “Danish” by whooping Søren in foozball. Too bad it never happens in real life… ;)

Anyways, here are some random pictures…

Panda, the model cat

Snowy bike in Århus

As requested, Anette Hellerung ;)

Iceland in October

I finally went home to the ’old country’ last week after nearly 7 months in Denmark. I had butterflies in my stomach when the plane landed at Keflavík airport, and couldn’t wait to get out side and feel the fresh air and wind in my face. My excitement diminished a little bit when the captain announced to us just after landing that it was windy and -3 C outside. Oh well! That is Iceland for you.

I spent the week admiring my little nephew and helping to prepare his baptism which was held at my parents place. I didn’t actually do much, or go very many places, but it was nice to just be able to relax and get over this annoying cold I’ve had for some weeks now.

I took around 160 pictures, mostly of Breki ;) and here are some of them.

Breki Hlynsson

Think Breki was getting tired of my camera...

Hangin out in Mosó

The proud parents

These horses hang out close to where my parents live in Mosó. They were kind enough to pose for pictures.

Breki, the charmer, hanging out with me and the Teddy bear me and Søren got him as a baptism gift. He seemed to like it...

Fluga, the candy eating cat