One last entry before we meet again

Hello everyone,
Today was a very nice day and a good way to wrap up the trip. I think I'm starting to slowly embrace travelling alone and asking for a 'table for one' :P After a nice boat tour of the city, narrated by the same girl in Danish, English, Italian and then Russian (!) I decided to head for the Church of Our Saviour (mentioned by Jules Verne I think) so I could climb the famous winding staircase to the top. I will fully admit that I chickened out (the floors were moving and it was windy!) and didn't climb it all the way. I did take this photo while hugging the wall and trying to maintain my cool. On the right side of the picture, kind of half-way on the side is a modern building facing the water - this is the opera house. Exactly across from it, on the left, also facing the water, is the theater. It opened with Hamlet, which apparently is set in Copenhagen.
Pete, you mentioned some of the local food - herrings I've had, but in Edmonton...from Costco :). They had them at the hotel in Turku as well, but for breakfast which didn't appeal to me at the time. In Copenhagen I haven't quite seen anything 'local'. Last night I had duck in red wine sauce. It was spectacular! I also had some banana-nutella chocolate crepes which I'm fairly confident I can duplicate at home. You can get anything from Chinese to Italian to Subway here. I did enjoy a coffee and a creme brulee on a marina patio by Christian Andersen's house - a tiny sad little dish of creme brulee was 16 Euros!!

Well, time to pack and call it a day - tomorrow I head back home; I miss everyone and I should likely start training again. Mini-tri is set for May 22nd.

Love,

Gabi