copenhagen

i can't say anything bad about copenhagen since my desk neighbor is danish... i visited a museum where i enjoyed sculpture for the first time. (the burghers made another appearance, too!) and saw this memorable quote about women: "stupid, perhaps, but dazzling and bewitching" (baudelaire). i walked around for six hours on sunday and ate three servings of danish danish. all my guide books said the little mermaid statue was small and disappointing, but she was quite lovely! the hippie town christiania was not my thing (surprise), but the rest of the city was cute. i missed the opening of the christmas market at tivoli by 3 days, oh well. overall the weekend wasn't too taxing. maybe i'm tiring of these solo travels through the capitals of europe, but i don't think i've hit even half the countries yet!

stockholm and berlin

i'm back to my weekend travels now that the beautiful weather's over in zurich (the temperature dropped 15 degrees right on november 1 - this country can be really eerie with its punctuality). recent stops: stockholm and berlin! and since i'm so tardy with these blog posts, i should point out that my picasa web album is kept much more up to date and you can subscribe to it via rss here. (thanks, h)

stockholm reminded me of zurich (but COLDER) - scenic and walkable, a couple nice tourist attractions, but i got my fill in my two days there. the people really are tall, blond, and possessing perfect english.

berlin put me in a weird mood with all the stuff about the wall and communism. but it also made my heart soar with the pergamon altar and the inside of the reichstag dome, which is undeniably star trek!

the happiest place on earth!

(or one of them anyway) my favorite weekend excursion yet: disneyland paris! hee hee, so much for becoming more european. it was soooooo delightful. mostly identical to the original disneyland except for lots of stuff being in french, with a few new things to check out. (do they have buzz lightyear laser blast in anaheim too?) there's also a companion park, walt disney studios, that's an exact copy of universal studios so i could get my fill of "i love movies!" feeling for the year. hooray!

one tidbit from the weekend: one day while eating dinner, we were wondering why there were so many (literally) screaming kids outside. we weren't close to any rides or anything. when we finally went out to check, we found a monsters inc. "scream-o-meter" right outside our restaurant. sigh!