Day 34
We decided to do what we do best! and walk and explore today. We walked to a massive shopping centre and while it has constantly rained, then sun, then rained since we arrived, it’s just like Melbourne haha!
Had a good couple of hours there, bought Graeme some trendy pants and had brunch at the espresso house which is a franchise everywhere in Scandinavia. They make the best chai lattes (they use powder rather than syrup with a little water and frothed milk- yum).
On the way home we walked through the meatpacking district and went to a brewery and pub called Warpigs. They brew a huge amount of beers so we thought it would be rude not to stop and have a couple! They were formed on the basis of three different breweries who came together as one. We walked back to the hotel afterwards and tried to have a lay down but the cleaning lady knocked and walked in - 2nd time this has happened to us! Gray had already spoken to another lady in the hallway about giving us an hour, but I guess it got lost in the translation. So we got up and went walking again in the early evening to Nyhavn where we had a drink the other night when we visited off the ship- this is the 3rd time we have been back to Copenhagen this trip! Anyway, we had steamed mussels in a pot - they were soooo tiny. Smaller than Australian mussels. Makes us appreciate what we so easily get in NZ😊.
Wandered back and enjoyed people watching along the way- so many different nationalities and we have been hearing foreign languages for the past 5 weeks, so much so, that it seems like normal background sound now. We have walked 16,500 steps today too!This is the nifty pic on our hotel lift doors
Day 35
We packed up and walked the 3 mins to the train station at 8:30am. The train is only 15 mins to the airport and we had to wait only about 10 mins then check in opened. Through immigration- my backpack gets pulled out again - 2nd time this trip, for a random swab?!
We went up to the SAS lounge again, it’s actually a bit disappointing in the food category. Very little choice and they split it so only specific gold members (?frequent flyers?) can go upstairs to the better lounge, but it was fine.
Lucky we left 15 mins early to walk to the board as the final immigration was after the lounge! Which was weird- have only seen that once before but it means big queues right before the boarding gates, then it was a pretty sprightly 10 min fast walk to gate 37 to make sure we got there on time! Boarded easy and we are in the very front section which is smaller and very nice. It was about 40C on the plane when we got on and the captain apologised and said Copenhagen has a rule that they can’t start the engines until 10 mins before takeoff. Everyone was stripping down! But it soon cooled once we got going.
A very easy 11 & 1/2 hr flight. Watched movies, Godzilla- king of monsters- very dumb! and a Dogs journey which made me cry repeatedly but loved the storyline. We didn’t sleep - of course because we needed to! and arrived about midnight cph time and 5:30am Singapore time, so we are going to be awake a while! Nice food and cabin crew this flight and they kept the temp nice and cool.
Must say that Singapore airlines have been on time every flight and I know it was the same when Danni flew them earlier this year to the UK.
We landed and got through no problems and our transfer was waiting. Got to the hotel at 7 am and the concierge was great – he swapped a room around so we could get in that early. A room on the 56 floor, absolutely over the race track – Graeme is in F1 heaven!
We walked to the huge shopping mall just across the road to get the racing tickets – I had aarrangedthis previously and was pleased to see my Google mapping had picked the closest pick up point! Had a few issues getting the tickets as I had paid for them with Danni’s travel card many months ago and even though I had the confirmation email with the ticket numbers and photo ID they wanted to see that credit card as well – luckily was able to get Dan on messenger and she screenshot a photo of the card and they were happy with that and released the tickets – phew!
Wandered around in the shopping mall for a couple of hours- both of us were feeling spaced out and dizzy from travel and being up so long I think, but it was good to look around. Went back to the hotel and set an alarm so we could sleep for two hours until lunchtime. We were out like lights! Woke feeling disgusting so got up and got going again! The sound of the Formula One cars from our balcony is amazing and we have a fantastic view point of the rest of the track, plus we have grandstand tickets for Sunday’s race night -You have to purchase grandstand tickets here in Singapore as they aren’t like Melbourne where you can get general admission for $100 pp. The cheapest tickets for Singapore were $210pp.
We went downstairs to the hotel pub restaurant, this hotel is huge! There are so many people here because of the F1 and there being so many people in town for it, it gives a great vibe.
It is about 27° but not unpleasant, so we went for a wander after dinner to a bar right opposite the raffles hotel ( turns out the raffles is literally in spitting distance of our hotel!) and had a Singapore sling and a Mojito there – $55 for the two here, but think it is a lot more at the raffles! That hotel looks quite small these days with all the tower blocks around it.
Did a beauty on my toe walking home – stubbed it on an uneven paver, Sheez it hurt as I split it open but not too bad. Hobbled home and sorted it. On the way we saw ferraris, a Lamborghini and other assorted half a million dollar cars!
They have lots of music stages down below the hotel in the marina area right below us and they had Swedish house mafia playing – that bass was incredible! We were too knackered to care about it at the time, but it woke us a couple of hours later. Jammed earplugs in as far as they would go but could still hear it - it will be par for the course this weekend with all the activities on, so oh well! Think it all has to stop at midnight each night anyway :-).
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