Hitting the grand vacances!

3 days ago, we started our long vacation of the year. It's time of the year where we have 2 months of summer vacation for school and 3 weeks of break from work during summer. And this year, DH has decided to take a big adventure trip - to the Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden and Norway). It's an exotic place where it's not so common and we are going to drive ... do you know how far it is? I think maybe a few thousand KM away but don't know how far, all I know is it's very far away from France.

As usual, we set off on Friday nite...drove for 5 hrs to Reims in France. We were caught in a traffic jam in Clermont, took almost an hour to leave Clermont... can you imagine how bad it is? I was taking the wheel and with a manual gear, I almost have leg cramps, it's bad!

On sat morning, we set off at around 9.30am, knowing that we would be in the car for the whole day, we had some movies ready for Matthew. We were heading to Hamburg, Germany and it took us about 10hrs to get there. There was one moment when we drove across a few borders in 5 mins...although there's no need to stop but it's was interesting to cut across 3 countries in these 5 mins. There were many road construction which slowed down the driving. It's tiring but overall was manageable. As it was late, we took a quick stroll around to get our dinner. DH somehow lost his way and we accidentally hit the "red-light district". It's not as prominent as the one in Amsterdam but it's not a nice walk.

Finally on Sunday, we are hitting Denmark - Copenhagen, officially starting our tour. We drove for about 5 hr from Hamburg to Copenhagen which include a ferry ride of about 45mins. Finally got to the hotel and head to the very first sight - the Little mermaid. The statue of little mermaid were right off the shore and it's where the fairy-tale story begins. Next we hitted the Tivoli garden, it's a garden and it also an adventure park with all kind of adventure rides. To my surprise, Matthew who used to be so afraid of even the merry-go-round, loves the park and took many of the interesting and scary rides... I think he's ready for Disneyland!

Today's weather wasn't as good. It's drizzling and grey the whole day. We went to see the changing of guards at Amalienborg palace... not as grand as the one in Buckingham palace. We also visited the stoget (longest pedestrian street for shoppers), round tower and have our lunch alongside the canal... just like boat quay area.

It's still very cloudy as we get back the hotel.... we are now going out for our dinner .... will update again soon!