ABOUT THIS
TRAVEL
Febraury 98, 15
days
INTRO
Kind of
travel: A
wholly independent travel
(with a travelmate for the first 3 days)
When: 20 Febr.- 6
Mar., 1998
How I moved: by train,
hitch hiking, boat and rollerblading
Baking or
freezing?: wind, especially along
the coasts, and cold but not too much (-2 +10). Some snow in Berlin.
Where I slept: on
the train, at the station, on the boat and hostels
What I liked: I fell
in love of Bornholm with his quite winter haze, as everything was in lethargy waiting for
the spring. Besides rollerblading in the snowing Berlin was suggestive
What I disliked: German
and Denmark are expensive, expensive and still expensive. In addition Germans in general,
train inspectors in particular, could be nicer.
What you do need: you must feel
at ease plunged in the winter atmosphere: haze and silence
ITINERARY
I need a break from the study-life.
“I wanna travel. I
wanna travel by train and there’s the whole Europe that is waiting for us, so
let’s leave!” I propose to a friend of mine.
We bought an inter-rail ticket for one zone that let us to
travel by train throughout Germany, Denmark and Austria. It was wintertime and the north
of Europe gets charming in the cold season, and so it turned out.
After passing by Hamburg we headed to the Sylt Island. It was so
windy we had to give up rollerblading to reach the lighthouse in the northern tip. From
here we took a ferry to Denmark, where we arrived in the late evening looking for a cheap
accommodation in Esbjerg. No way to find it, so a dark cold station became our shelter and
my travel mate got sick to such extent to decide to turn back home (read the story!!), while I proceed.
I reached the northern tip of Denmark, Skagen and then the
beautiful Danish capital from where I took a boat to the pearl of the Baltic: Bornholm. I
fell in love with this island where, as I was told, God put a fistful of earth from
everywhere: in fact you can find sandy beaches, rocky cliffs, hills, green flat lands,
woods…
After an unsuccessful attempt to win the wind rollerblading, I
successfully hitch hiked around having great fun!!! :-) For sure I was the only one
foreigner in the island in such season!!
A boat took me again in Kopenhagen and then I reached the German
capital where I spent few days.
In such years (98) the view in Berlin was just cranes and
excavators, but at least I could heat up for hours staying and observing the hippos inside
their tropical pavilion.
On the way to Munich I stopped in Nurnberg, from where I reached
the Fussen valley in the Alps to visit the famous fairytale like castle of Neuschwanstein.
The following leg was Salzburg and finally Vienna, where I spent two days hanging around
before heading back home.
Alby
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