I know I have been missing-in-action on the blogsphere once again in the past month. Well, my MIA reason is not that shabby actually – I was in Europe for almost a month for leisure purposes! It sounds pretty relaxing doesn’t it? But in actual fact, the trip was quite exhausting.
Starting off with an 11 nights cruise trip. Before embarking into the cruise at Copenhagen, I thought it could be fun and a relaxing journey without any worries right? Yes, we weren’t supposed to get worried because it wasn’t that happening on the cruise. Who knew doing nothing could be that exhausting? Basically, we had set time and locations for our meals, and not much activities going on due to the cold weather – couldn’t swim or do any sporting activities like expected. There were 3 days – and I am talking about 3 full days! – when we were stuck at the sea before we got to reach our stops for excursions. So all we did was eat, sleep, and watch movies at our room. We could have gone to the casino, but the casino was not that interesting like it would be in Las Vegas 
In those days, what we could do was just waiting for the next day to come.
But even when we reached the stops for excursions. Our excursions mostly took half a day or the longest to be 7.5 hours, and we would be back on the ship right after and wait for the ship to sail away again! We thought the stops were kind of too short, but what could we do right?
I would never imagine myself being trapped in the sea for more than 10 days ever again! Sounds like a nightmare with lots of shaky nights!
But you know what, I still feel it was a good experience to be on a cruise, at least we know how’s it like. And what to expect, IF we EVER going to go on one again in the future. Well – I kind of doubt that would happen though… maybe when we are in our 50s?
Best of all, it was still good that we were away from work for awhile. Just to relax our mind from stress and the routine life we always have.
Here are some photos taken before we embarked to the cruise at Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is probably the city with the most cyclists – at least among the cities where I have been previously. Seriously, everywhere is parked with lots of bicycles. One of the reasons for citizens to ride on bikes is that public transportation is really expensive. So they think it is more economical to ride on bikes, and they probably realized that it is more environmentally friendly as well.
The famous mermaid statue in Copenhagen – not sure what’s so nice about it but you gotta see it to say that you have been to Copenhagen.
A canal in Copenhagen – so relaxing and probably the nicest weather I have got throughout the whole trip!
Stay tuned for more photos coming up from my euro trip…
