Trip time!

[rms10]

We leave a week from tomorrow on our big trip to Europe. Hooray! I am so excited. We are going to London, Copenhagen, and Esbjerg (to visit my brother). Right now all we need to do is:

• Pare down our list of what we want to do in London. There's Westminister Abbey and the Globe Theater and the British Museum and the Tate, and we don't want to get museum'd out. (The eeee! and I have each been to London before, but never together.)
  
  
• Figure out what we're doing in Copenhagen. Other than swinging through Tivoli, we have no earthly idea what we're going to do there. Any suggestions? I'm looking forward to just wandering around and checking out the architecture, but beyond that, we're stumped.
  
  
• I have to figure out which lenses to bring with me (dork!).
  

We're staying with the eeee!'s cousin in London, which will be great. And while we're in Denmark we're going to Legoland! Yay! We're all very dorkily excited about Legoland.

That's about it here. We have my in-laws' dog here this weekend, and then the eeee! has a work trip, and then we're off! So the next week is just going to fly by.

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[angiv.livejournal.com]

Yay, Legoland!

That is all.

[rms10.livejournal.com]

Ha!

My husband is over the moon about Legoland -- it's a place he always wanted to go, but he never really thought he'd actually go!

[pescana.livejournal.com]

I visited Copenhagen years and years ago, and we basically stumbled around finding interesting little museums everywhere. There's also the Little Mermaid statue in the harbor. We stumbled across that, and because it was February we went out on the ice and actually touched it.

There's good food all over (the pastries at the train station were really good, which was a surprise), and the Tuborg bar/brauhaus/pub place. Which, on reflection, might not be so interesting to you at this point. The other thing I remember is that Copenhagen was expensive. But beautiful!

p.s.

[pescana.livejournal.com]

The gift shop at the Globe has some awesome stuff. zoje_george and I both bought Shakespeare calendars and matching Alas, Poor Yorick! bags with skulls on them. We didn't actually go into the theater as it was closed, but we took pictures of the outside and squeed our little heads off.

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[rms10.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEE the Globe! Yeah, I'm pretty sure it'll reduce me to inarticulate squeeing.

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[pescana.livejournal.com]

We were just wandering along the river minding our own business when we came around a curve and THERE IT WAS! We stopped in our tracks and clutched at each other, and there was much squeeing.

I also got very excited when I realized (somewhere else) that I was standing on Half Moon Street, because it shows up in a number of novels I've read. I'm pretty sure Georgette Heyer used it at least once.

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[rms10.livejournal.com]

Oh, I got so excited when I ended up on Charing Cross Road! God, I love London.

[rms10.livejournal.com]

Pastries! Right! I've been sort of dreading Danish food, since I don't really eat meat, and E hates German food, but I forgot about the pastries! Tuborg sounds interesting -- I'm sure E can drink enough for the two (three?) of us.

[pescana.livejournal.com]

The Danish version of, well, a danish is an amazing piece of baker's art.

[evil-fizz.livejournal.com]

Non-museum suggestions in London: The Tower of London, as much as it is a tourist trap, and the crown jewels are incredible if you've not seen them before. (Note: remember student ID if you've still got one. It makes things much cheaper.) If the weather's going to be good, definitely go poke around Covent Garden, watch the buskers, and eat jacket potatoes.