Amy and I have had some good luck while traveling in Scandinavia. On our first evening in Copenhagen, I looked down and found 10 kroners! That’s like 2 bucks! We were both very happy. However Amy was not to be outdone. The next evening while leaving a traditional Copenhagen restaurant (Chinese restaurant) she found 500 KRONERS! That’s like 100 bucks! … however Scandinavia is very expensive so that really only buys you like a waffle cone. just kidding… maybe five waffle cones.
Then more luck was awaiting us in Bergen, Norway (where we are now!) First off all the tour guides warned you to be ready for rain and clouds as Bergen only gets 60 days of sun every year. I guess we are lucky because we’ve had two beautiful days of Norwegian sun! Also when checking in to our hotel they didn’t have our reservation (that is one unit of bad luck) but they had some open rooms for us if we were willing to change rooms for our second night. And since we had to go through the trouble of moving they gave us a 25% discount! ( two units of good luck! that means we ended up with one unit of good luck)
oh… and Amy wants me to add that she found ramen. I don’t think that is so lucky :/
I’m off to do some traveling now!
ciao!
haha I think finding ramen counts as lucky!! ;D
Glad to see luck has been following you around!! ^_^
my learnings from my trip to denmark..
- most popular dish is raw herring (even for breakfast) along with open faced sandwiches where you have a smorgasbord of meats and things on bread
- there are bikes everywhere! (And yes, I learned from personal experience as I almost got ran over! 2x..
- everyone is ridiculously tall. Avg height probably 6′2…
- taxes are insane here 68%! I guess w taxes so high, cars actually cost 3x as much as other countries hence all the bikes
- real estate market has been quite impressive here too with 25% annual return for the past couple of years
- wind energy accounts for 30% of the energy source here (saw all the wind turbines in the middle of the ocean as we were landing) – they are one of few nations other than middle east and canada where they produce more energy than they use.
- i think they wear wedding rings on the right hand instead of left..
anyways, continued happy traveling