Day 15 - January 15

Another museum day – this time to the National Museum! It’s a outstanding museum, and I maybe saw 1/6 of it, at most. Sadly, I was told there were no cameras allowed when there actually were, but it’s free and there’s so much more to see, so I’ll be back! It has exhibits on Danish history from prehistory to now, a children’s museum, everything. The most exciting part of the trip, though, was being able to understand some of the posters, making connections with the Danish words we know to those we don’t know.

The day did not end quite so pleasantly. I decided to buy my tickets to Paris (my main trips while in Europe: Paris at the end of February, England in the spring, and Hungary in the summer – with maybe a stopover in Vienna). I have this amazing website – skyscanner.net – that finds the cheapest flights, and, for some reason, it’s actually cheaper to buy there than through the airlines themselves. However, my card did not work with the website I was using, and the website, seeing that my IP was from Denmark, switched the language instantly to Danish. If I tried to switch it to English, it gave me the UK site which had the same flights for about triple the price. So I went to the Norwegian Airlines site directly, and decided to pay the extra $40, but I was so flustered by the fact that my card wasn’t working that I went through quickly, planning to just see if my card was working on that site, and I had already searched the site, so I knew what I was doing…but I realized as soon as I hit “buy” that I hadn’t double checked the dates. Sure enough the return flight was for the wrong date, and because it was a cheap flight, no refunds, or even partial-refunds with cancellations. So I ended up having to buy another return ticket, and while I’m grateful that this is Europe and flights are cheap, so I only paid an extra $60 rather than, say, $200, it’s still an extra $60. And, I realized later (after translating what was now in Norwegian, that while you could not get money back on cancellations, you could change flights for a fee…but I guess that’s what I get for trying to navigate a site in Norwegian). But hey, now I’ve taken the wrong train and bought a ticket for the wrong date…so two things that won’t happen again (hopefully)!