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Monday, November 19, 2012
2012 Europe Trip - Day 16: The Return Trip
Travel journal entries from my trip to Europe from May 12-28, 2012. Maybe subscribe to the RSS feed.
Welcome back! Just a couple more entries to go...
All good things must come to an end. Monday would be my big travel day. I started things off with one last relaxing breakfast at a coffee shop in Christianshavn. The shop had an LP of Barry White going, and a nice little setup with a couple tables in front. I indulged myself in reading a bit of Steve Jobs's biography.
Then it was time to pack and leave. I worked it so I was able to use the ticket from Sunday's Malmö trip to get me to the airport via the Metro. Copenhagen's Metro is kind of unusual, in that there are no drivers in the trains. I'm not quite sure how they're controlled (a central command center in Odense?), but it is a little odd.
At the airport, I had quite a few leftover Kroner, so I took advantage of the bar's deal on an open-faced prawn sandwich and beer combo. A fitting end to my time in Denmark.
The flights back were pretty sight-filled. I first flew to Reykjavik, with nice views of Denmark and Norway along the way. In particular, Stavanger looked like a beautiful town, surrounded by a massive bay and its water and islands. The eastern side of Iceland was neat, too, with its glaciers and volcanoes. I was able to pick out some of the sights from my road trip of two weeks earlier. The flight from Reykjavik to Seattle was also scenic, but in a different way. There's almost no civilization on the entire route over Greenland and northern Canada, but it was neat to see a part of the world that most of us don't see very often. After about 11 hours of flying plus a layover, minus 9 time zones, I was back in Seattle around dinner time. I dropped off my bags at home and headed to Rancho Bravo for a traditional post-Europe burrito. Then on to laundry and fighting jet lag...
[Note: You can click on any of the photos below to zoom in.]
my last room in Copenhagen
coffee shop is on Facebook
last coffee and danish
another bike scene
very true
Denmark
Stavanger
Greenland, I think
Comments
Eric M says:
Seeing Greenland from the plane on the way back was one of my favorite sights on my trip in September.
November 20, 2012 2:00pm EST