Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Camping in Denmark

So I think I found a good camping site in Denmark - Vejle City Camping. It's in Vejle - a small town halfway between Copenhagen and Billund. InterCity trains from Copenhagen to Vejle go every hour (18:50, 19:50, 20:50 and so on) and the trip takes about 2 hours. It'll be much easier to get to Legoland from there - we won't need to get up insanely early, cause the bus trip from Vejle to Billund only takes about an hour (e.g. X-Bus 907X leaves from Vejle Trafikcenter at 9:14 and arrives at Legoland (Billund) at 10:00, which is right when the place opens :D)

The camping site is pretty cheap - 75 DKK / person (~10€) and looks decent, at least according to the pictures on the website... It says that a camping pass is necessary to enter the camping site and that it can be purchased there for 35 DKK / night (~5€). I guess it's not a universal camping pass that could be used in other places, but it applies to the whole household, so an extra 2.5€ per person ain't too bad.

Yesterday I e-mailed the owner and asked whether it is necessary to make reservations and if they have a curfew. I'm guessing his English isn't very good, cause his answer was "NO." and "Oben 7:30-22:00" :D

Sunday, July 4, 2010

A little update: Posts, Trangia and Tent

Sooo I've been kinda lame and haven't updated this blog about Innsbruck's part 2 or Prague. I don't think I will have any time to do that for 3 weeks. Maybe I'll be able to finish the post about Innsbruck but I make no promises. I don't know what I've been doing lately, nothing, but still I haven't managed to write. I have all the things about Innbruck written down so all I would need to do is type it up. Prague pictures I don't have here, and those I most likely cannot access until the end of July. 

Brain and I tested a tent yesterday that can we put it together, and we could. I tested another tent today and it was easy too. The tent is shaped differently. It's not a square, it's some shape that I don't know how to describe. It is sturdier in the wind than the one we tried yesterday. My brother has used the first tent as well and it wasn't good if it's windy, the sticks bend down to the ground. But not in the second tent. 

He showed me how to use the Trangia. 

( Trangia
There's no coffee pot in ours but that's what it looks like otherwise, and we have a possibility to use gas instead of the liquid that is poured in the bronzy thingy that cannot be found from central Europe unfortunately. I don't know why, but it's not sold there.

It's just that since we are flying back, a can of gas (about 10€) or the liquid, cannot be taken back to Finland with an airplane. I'm not even sure that can Trangia be in the luggage because either the middle part, the burner, will have some liquid residue, I don't know what the liquid is called (methylated spirit according to wikipedia), and then there's the other part (not in the picture) that connects to the gas bottle.

We need to read more about the campsites and that do they have kitchens, because this Trangia business might be a little problematic. Trangia itself does not weigh much, but the gas bottle or the methylated spirit bottle does weigh something.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Wooo!

  • InterRail Global Passes - purchased
  • Boat tickets Finland-Sweden - booked
  • Plane tickets back to Finland - booked
All in all, we are well on our way to taking over Europe. Hurray to that!