It's only been 40 years!

Calling all cooks: Our hotel here in Copenhagen serves breakfast to its guests. Since we have been here they have served us "bacon balls" every day. It looks like they take a slice of bacon, roll it up, and then bake it, drain the grease, and serve it. It must save on space as they can cook massive amounts with so much less space. Has anyone ever heard of this or cooked bacon this way? They actually taste pretty good and are cooked through. Next time I make a breakfast I will make bacon balls and sugar balls--a little Denmark and Sweden at the same breakfast.

Today was our day to travel to Malmo for church. We had checked and rechecked the route on the internet. We purchased our train ticket (Denmark to Sweden) and headed out. Once we arrived at the Malmo train station Jim suggested we walk since the church was only around 4-5 km away. Well one hour later and one newly purchased umbrella (since it started raining on us and we happened to run into a gas station and they sold me an umbrella) we arrived at the ward building that Jim had served his mission in 1970! All of the people were most welcoming and gracious and kind. Jim didn't see anyone he remembered; most of the people had moved or passed away. But we spent a wonderful 3 hours there. They even provided a translator for me!

My translator is a Dane married to a South American girl and they are expecting their first child. He lives in Sweden due to the "24 year" rule. After questioning him on what that was it is essentially the Danish government made a ruling in 2002 that if a Dane should marry someone from another country and they are under the age of 24 they cannot live in Denmark. There are lots of reasons for the law based on education, emigration and immigration but it has backfired on Denmark. They are finding that they are losing many native Danes to Sweden. Our friend said he could now move back since they are over the age of 24 but they like it in Sweden and Denmark is only 30 minutes away.

While at church a nice lady mentioned the bus that goes right by the church and takes you to the train station so we headed back in the comfort of a Swedish bus! The picture is a building called "the twisting torso". It is full of businesses on the bottom and residences on the top.

We went right to the Glyptotek Museum that is mentioned in the book of "1000 places". It is free on Sunday and we are always up for free. It houses many Renoir, Degas, Monet, Manet and Roudin plus others. We only had 30 minutes before they closed so we made a dash for the paintings before they kicked us out!

Jim decided that we should do our laundry today so that we could use the hotel's iron. We rolled our suitcase full of dirty clothes over the cobbled streets to the laudry. This is where living on your own and doing things on your own is fun. We tried as we might to figure out the pictures on what to do or not to do with the washing machine. Since each wash load cost us $10.00 we wanted to get it right the first time.

I think we did okay. The darks were still dark, the lights still light and the whites didn't get rung out! There are 2 buttons to push for centrifuge. One is 3 minutes (which I thought it would automatically do) and the other for 20 seconds (which I thought would give it an extra 20 seconds). Wrong! I pushed the 20 seconds and watched as all our whites spun around for a mere 20 seconds!

Lucky for us the dryers were really hot so after only 40 minutes the whites were dry enough to take home!

I suppose doing one's laundry on one's last day in Copehagen isn't what Rick Steves would suggest but there is nothing better than clean clothes! Print this post