My Copilot Is A Troll

 One of the goals of this trip was to do as much travel by train as possible. Most of our time was going to be spent in the heart of big cities and we wanted to see the countryside as well. I'm a crafty person, and I usually have a project handy for any time I have a moment to sit. With several 6-8 hour journeys, I thought I would get all sorts of things done. Turns out that I couldn't tear my eyes away from the window. For most trips between cities you can reserve seats. This is handy, as a lot of locals are also using these trains to commute for work, school and shopping between towns. So if you happen upon a busy route during a busy time, there is no guarantee of a seat otherwise.  There are some that have four seats facing each other with a table in between and some that are like airplane seats, two together with trays that flip down. If we both wanted a window seat, it meant that one of us had to travel backwards, which I don't mind. There was often wifi (or claims to ...

Time to set sightseeing aside and relate to you an adventure of a completely different nature. Transportation within Denmark was one of the few things we could not pre-book from Canada. We have to get ourselves from Billund to Odense, Odense to Coppenhagen and Coppenhagen to Oslo. Rome to Rio is a website that we have found very helpful in our planning. You put in the names of two places and it tells you all the available routes, methods of transport, length of trip and cost. Links take you directed to the bus, train, or airline website you need. Very helpful. Monday evening we log on to book for Tuesday morning. Got on to the Danish train website. We have to take a bus from here to another town, and switch to a train. Find our route, pick our times, no problem. Big problem. Before we can buy our tickets, the website crashes. Several times. I suspect it may be an issue with the translation to English. We go down to the front desk, and when the lovely young lady who checked us in was fr...