The Vagabond Adventure Daily Journal
Where Are We Now?
Good to see you! Hope you’re enjoying the journey!
This journal provides you snapshots of our journey as we work our way around the world, never traveling by jet. It’s a chance to get a close-up view of the planet as we explore it the way people did 120 years ago.
Day 597 - Copenhagen to Oslo
The morning of May 16 found us rolling quickly north by train into Sweden thanks to of one of the world’s great engineering marvels: the Øresund Bridge, which, it turns out, is far more than a bridge. The train sweeps from Copenhagen beneath the Baltic Sea toward the Swedish city of Malmö. A cable-stayed bridge, nearly 8 km (5 miles) long, connects itself to an artificial island where it disappears into a tunnel that runs another 4 km (2.5 miles) before re-emerging into the light. It was a stunning ride.
Day 594 To Copenhagen, Denmark
I have little memory and fewer notes about our train to Copenhagen. I can only say it rolled Cyndy and me across roughly 225 miles of northern Europe for 7 hours. That doesn't sound fast, but it felt that way.
Once we arrived, we settled into our comfortable hotel, the Grand Joanne, only a few hundred feet from the Copenhagen train station, ate dinner at the hotel restaurant while we got our feet on the ground, and enjoyed the remainder of the evening doing absolutely nothing.