Saturday, June 7, 2008

Copenhagen


I get my chance to attend for a 2 weeks Nederman advance training in Sweden, and before I depart to Sweden, I'd stayed 1 night in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This is the first time I come to Europe country, everything seems impressive to me, the weather, atmosphere, building, and the superb high cost of living here.

It is summer now, the sun is bright, but not as hot and wet as Malaysia, and, whats surprisingly for a tropical-country boy like me is, when I woke up by 10pm (due to time adjustment, I'd slept from 4pm), it's still bright, and the night is not that cold.

There is lots of Gothic style building here, and it looks so natural, erm, actually it is, unlike some tourist place in Asia country, looks fake, even the hotel's building where I stay is those old European style building.

What's make me unsatisfied is the extremely high cost of living here (just Google, it is the no. 6 costly city in the world) . The hotel where I stayed, without air-conditioner, no bathtub, cost 1300dkk+ (about rm900+) per night, and the lunch I took, a frankfurt + coke, from a hawker stall, cost me 48dkk, (about rm30+), my dinner on Burger King, a 'best price' package which inc. a cheese burger, fries and a regular size coke, cost me 39dkk, terribe...