Spring Break Extravaganza!!!

Hey all, I just got back from my spring break adventure in Gothenburg, Stockholm, and Copenhagen with Victoria Chandler and Casey Smedberg!  We had so much fun backpacking through the different cities and staying at all of the different hostels.  We began our trip on Friday afternoon where we flew into Stockholm, Sweden from London Heathrow airport.  We got there in the late evening and took a bus to our first hostel where we stayed for 2 nights.  The hostel was very nice and we had a room with bunk beds and a television.

The first day at Gothenburg, we went on a ferry all around the Swedish islands.  We stopped on an Island named Vrango, which had a national reserve park that we walked around for several hours.  We had a blast climbing up rocks and trees that usually was led by Casey's craziness.  After our long walk through the park, we waited for the ferry to arrive and as we sat this random cat came up to the bench and started rubbing himself against our legs.  He then jumped up on the bench and on to all of our laps.  He was very cute, so I decided to name him Sven.

Here is a picture from our Vrango adventure:

The next day, we left pretty early for the train station to take a train from Gothenburg to Stockholm, Sweden.  The train was a very calming three and a half hour ride that I read the entire time (occasionally lifting my head up to look at the beautiful scenery).  In Stockholm we set up at another beautiful hostel and did a lot of outdoor sight seeing.  All of the museums in Stockholm were closed on Mondays (which of course was the day we were there!).  It was still very beautiful to see the castles and palaces around the area!

Here is a picture in Stockholm:

After Stockholm we took a plane to Copenhagen, Denmark for the last stretch of our Scandinavian adventure, and what a stretch it turned out to be!  It was dark outside when we first arrived because we got a late flight so we could do a bit more sight seeing in Stockholm.  When we got off the metro from the airport to our stop, we had to find our way in a strange city, at night, to a hostel we had never been to.  When we finally found the hostel, it was on top of a bar, and there were scary people in the front talking about beating the crap out of others who were not present.We were all sort of scared for our lives.  When we got into the safety of our hostel room, it was not very nice, which was unfortunate since the last two were extremely nice.

When we woke up the next morning we decided to walk to Nyhavin Street, which had many shops and was the place Hans Christian Anderson wrote his first fairy tale (for those of you who don't know, he wrote the little mermaid and there is a statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen).  A 17 minute walk turned into a 3 and a half hour getting lost around Copenhagen tour!  We got so flustered we gave up and just went to the coast of the water and saw the Little Mermaid statue.  We were so exhausted that we layer out on the rocks and took a two hour nap by the statue! Even though it was tiring and frustrating, we still had a fantastic time and got to see a lot of lovely buildings and shops around Oxford.  If we hadn't have gotten lost, I would have never come across my new horse names Johann Stavros.

This is his picture:

We also stumbled across a Disney Store where I found out that Mickey Mouse was originally supposed to be named Mortimer Mouse, but Walt Disney's wife told him that would be too scary and he should name him Mickey!  Fun fact of the day!

Ironically, after our adventure, we got on a bus to go to our last and final Hostel and passed the street we spent hours looking for . . . figures. lol.

Needless to say, we had a fantastic time and I am sad that it is over.  At the same time, I am ecstatic to be back in my own room and have fresh new clothes to wear.  Well I shall be off now because I have to wake up early and start British Landscape course in the morning.

Tata for now!

Katie