Thursday, 16 January 2014

Day 4

In the morning i found myself staring at the magnificent historical Den Gamle By. It is an open air musuem that is near the Aarhus Botanical Gardens. 3.5 million visitors from all around the world visit this musuem.

The Den Gamle By is a small recreation of a Danish town which consists of buildings made of half timbered structures. There are 27 rooms and kitchens, 34 workshops, 10 shops, 5 gardens, a post office, a school and even a theatre. This place gives you a historical feel. There was no particular smell and it was very quiet, you can only hear the sounds of birds chirping and cars zooming past by.

I got back to my hotel, packed my luggage and got ready for my two and a half hour drive to Legoland in Billund. Legoland was opened quite recently here in Denmark and is the first Legoland in the world. Legoland is a themed park and is 100% lego themed and has rides such as the pirate 360, a firefighting game, a cruise to see caves, a boat ride for children where they can control their own little lego boat to go down a little track and see iconic landmarks and animals made out of thousands of pieces of Lego.

On my car trip to Billund I saw a lot of convenient stores. It is a very quiet place unlike Coppenhagen. I stopped by Domino's Pizza and ordered a takeaway slice of pepperoni pizza. I saw something I never saw before. Maybe it is common to put a slice of pizza into a little cardboard pizza holder here in Europe or maybe I'm just dumb. The little holder was very cute and held my pizza well.

I was quite confused at first
"What is this for?" 
"To hold the pizza of course." the person serving me replied impatiently.
"I've never seen this in Asia." 
"Have you been living under a rock? How can you have not seen this before in your life?" he snapped back at me rudely.

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I arrived quite late at legoland so the park is closed and so is the shopping mall near by. I stayed in a hotel which is near the Legoland "village" (The village is basically just houses near Legoland. There is nothing lego themed about it.) I took a little stroll down the road and saw little restaurants and cafes which were country themed and other convenient stores. It was very very quiet, There were no cars around.

"HELLO THERE LADY!" I heard a man cry out.
I screamed and had a jumpscare. The man offered me a flyer to a pizzeria.
"EVERY WEDNESDAY WHEN YOU BUY 2 PIZZAS YOU GET ONE FREE! EVERY THURSDAY YOU BUY 3 PIZZAS YOU GET 2 FREE! EVERY.."
"OK I GET THE POINT. WHENEVER YOU BUY MORE THAN ONE PIZZAS YOU GET FREE PIZZAS."
"YES GOOD JOB LADY! PLEASE DO COME" he smiled and handed me the flyer.

On my walk back I still had a mini jumpscare. Suddenly I heard a noise coming from the bushes. Then out came a cat who ran out as fast as it could, chased by a barking mad dog. I let out a scream (again) and my heart raced. (Well this is a good night.)


Den Gamle By
Entrance to the Legoland Village

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