Spring Break Continued

I arrived in Copenhagen in the early evening on Sunday. Mari picked me up to the airport and we rode the very convenient tram to her apartment. We went out and got Chai tea latte's (they are really good there - Starbuck's will never compare) and fresh pastries before heading back to make dinner. Monday Mari took me to the oldest tea shop in Europe where we bought a couple of their famous tea mixtures to try. My personal favorite was a white tea mix. Mari still had classes until Wednesday so she gave me a map and a guide book to explore the city while she went to class. I walked around the city and covered most of the "important" sites in the guidebook. 

On Wednesday morning Mari and I headed back to the airport for Dublin. We met up with our other good friend from high school, Brian who was studying in Dublin. Like Mari, Brian had classes that week so Mari and I spent the two days exploring the city. We decided to do the "hop-on hop-off" to tour the city (it's much bigger than Copenhagen). The tour included the Guinness Museum, which at the end both of us decided we still had not developed a taste for the beer yet. 


Friday morning all three of us (Mari, Brian and I) again headed to the airport for another short adventure this time to Edinburg. We spend most of our short time here doing our own "Harry Potter Tour". We began with the Edinburg Castle (which Hogwarts is based on and you can see from where she wrote the first book) then to the Elephant House for lunch, tea and coffee, which is where J.K. Rowling created Harry potter, then to the cemetery right next door for Tom Riddles grave stone. We made it into a game to try and find the tomb stone first. Mari and I tied. Unfortunately HP was more important than the Loch ness Monster so we never made it there.... Also our first day in Edinburg Mari and I were carded about 10 times, 4 of which were at the same place. Apparently we really look under the age of 18.... Also fun story we tried to go to this pub, but I didn't bring my license only my ISC card and a photocopy of my passport. The bouncer told me I photoshopped it all. I told him I didn't even know where to even start that process. So yeah we didn't get in....  

After a week of traveling I parted ways with Mari and Brian and headed back to Firenze for another week of classes.