Copenhagen Calling

Life is a taxi, as my friend explained to me earlier. People who are interested in life or interested with taxi will get into the car. It’s you, the driver who drives it till the end. Random passengers in train who sits with you and if either one of them in interested in talking, they start with the conversation. I'm writing this post in a travelling train traversing from Copenhagen to Esbjerg. It's a nice experience to travel in winter season, though your body experience pain due to the cold. The freezing snowflakes blowing outside and hitting the window, while I sit in the window seat and start typing on my keypad. That’s a nice feeling to work on, when you see the white land outside and still concentrating on your computer without your body being stable. The journey started on fine evening, though I was very early to the railway station, considering my Danish class in advance of my travel schedule. I have fixed that I should miss my girl who comes to the Danish class. The day I have seen palm history in her hands and trying to explain my feelings about her was at least interesting for me, since I have never tried to this to any female for expressing my love. I have done this kinda technique to Elsa for getting her attention in other way, inspite understand her. But this will be a definitely a challenging case for me. I have to park my bicycle in the Esbjerg railway station and start my journey alone. Its 1:05 at midnight, I called karthik who was waiting in the station with his friend looking for me. There are few surprises like seeing different ethics people at midnight and meeting my old Bangladesh friend from halmstad. That was the first day in my life I took the two zone ticket in bus at danmark. It costed me 23 dkk, but still it's a nice experience to know in buying tickets in a foreign country. The denominations where kept separately in a jar as the driver press the corresponding button the customer receives the change and he is the one who has to collect it by pressing the handle top wards, funny but this is how the system works. The important thing which has to noted down is the credit or debit cards are not accepted in buying the tickets. Anyways we reached their typical Danish apartment by 2 and ate. That was sambhar with mango mix and pickle to add its taste. Wow, what a wonderful combination. The night went by karthik friend passing jokes comment on his wander about friend. The I have to get up in the morning 9 am; thinking it was too early to wakeup. Then I took the help from karthik to travel to the Swedish embassy in CPH. The day started with snow when we took the initial bus, Again I had new experience in travelling with the local metro train. The interesting part of this system is it doesn't have any driver to control the train. I felt the metro experience was similar to the one which I notice in Italy, except this is unmanned. The infrastructure and the paintings inside proved made me this feeling. When we reached the desired point, it was sunny and still freezing. We managed to find the embassy and finished the job by filing the visa. I was little curious about the place which landed us to see the coat or arms changing their shift by 12 at Danish palace. That was again nice experience, because I have seen these activities in the movies that were real with royalty. Then we couldn't manage to stay longer so we opted out to our room. The interesting thing which I learned is the camera lost its capability to switch on and showed less battery inspite having two points which I noticed at some points later, even while coming back in the train now. We reached room by direct local train and felt so hungry, I wanted to taste prawn food, since I felt it’s been long  sometime in Sweden, I have tasted it that raw shrimp. So we decided to hang out to nearby netto and managed to get chicken instead of prawn. The weather now turned to be little gloomy, when we returned to our place. I have to wait for the food to get cooked, meanwhile I meddled with facebook and felt little happy after seeing the likings of henrik and Mona about copen-heaven wall post. Later we had our lunch by 6 and headed to babu’s place, where I have to catch two buses, this time I used karthik friends buss pass to travel.  It’s an advantage that Indian faces look more or less similar to the foreigners, as we felt when seeing them. So I have to spend some time with babu and his friends and returned to home with the bag which I gave to babu few months earlier. The surprises continued for me, the people who resided at babu’s place, holds green card still doing some random part time jobs. That’s the job situation to the people from foreign country. Late evening, I had to have the remaining food which we cooked for lunch and went to bed. I woke up so early before my alarm strikes and say bye to karthik and magesh who came last night. Then I headed out with the dilemma of getting bus ticket, and then as told my karthik, we can use the dsb ticket for getting into the bus. The bus took like 40 minutes to the station which I didn’t expect at that time and still I had some time to look around the places around københavn central railway station. I love this station very much, because this is the place where I initially landed when I come to Scandinavia and this is the place where I halted when I travelled with my friends from halmstad to Esbjerg few months ago, not to mention my msg which I wrote to my friend at these situations. With the two breads in my stomach, I had to travel 300 kilometres in 3 hrs. I have to spend 368 dkk (79, 230, 23, 23, and 23) totally for my travel, but it’s still worth learning some of these experiences and remembering those beautiful memories.