It all started a long time ago when I hadn't even started the university when a friend told me about this Erasmus experience of his and I got so into it that I could just not wait to get my chance to do the same.
Years passed by and finally the day had come, it was time to choose destination. I ended up choosing Denmark as a first option and my following ones were Poland and Austria. I managed to convince a friend of mine to choose Denmark to and maybe we would get lucky and get the same destination and guess what? We did! We both got addmited.
Unfourtunelly we knew it full of excitement by the month March, when the experience would't start until end of August. Good thing though is that we had plenty of time to organize the trip, the paper work and to say farewell to all our loved ones.
Years passed by and finally the day had come, it was time to choose destination. I ended up choosing Denmark as a first option and my following ones were Poland and Austria. I managed to convince a friend of mine to choose Denmark to and maybe we would get lucky and get the same destination and guess what? We did! We both got addmited.
Unfourtunelly we knew it full of excitement by the month March, when the experience would't start until end of August. Good thing though is that we had plenty of time to organize the trip, the paper work and to say farewell to all our loved ones.
The day had arrived, it was a 19 of August I will never forget, and we had decided that the best way to go to Denmark was by car. So there we were, two 20 years old guys, with a small Peugeot 206 fully packed and prepared to go to Denmark.
THE ROAD TRIP
There we were 2000km of road and passing by 4 countries to arrive to our final destination: Esbjerg.
The first day we decided to do as many km as possible to pass by France past, after around 4 bottles of water each and 900 km of driving in the heat of the summer reaching at some points 43 Celcius degrees, with decided to make our first night stop in Nancy. Unfourtunelly at that point we focused only on our goal to reach Esbjerg as soon as possible and did not make a lot of tourism on to road, but from we saw, I would say Nancy is a pretty nice city.
Day 2: With even more excitement than the first day, if that could be possible, we ate breakfast and went back on track on our way to cross our next boarder, Germany was waiting. Our goal that day was Dortmund and after a few hours of driving we had reached it. It was in the middle of the day and we had plenty of time, what we hadn't counted with was that the reservation of the hotel we(I) had made it for the day before and we couldn't check in. So then, we decided to continue on the road towards the next city, and with a reserervation for that day, Hannover was waiting.
We arrived in the mid-afternoon, checked-in and decided to visit the city, not what we had expected though. Our impressions of Hannover was a dark and a bit scary city, because the first street we walked was one full of prostitutes and the second one had no light, so a bit confused, we ate and went back to the hotel, to fill up our body for our last stop before Esbjerg and our last hope to make tourism; Hamburg was the choosen one.
We arrived in the mid-afternoon, checked-in and decided to visit the city, not what we had expected though. Our impressions of Hannover was a dark and a bit scary city, because the first street we walked was one full of prostitutes and the second one had no light, so a bit confused, we ate and went back to the hotel, to fill up our body for our last stop before Esbjerg and our last hope to make tourism; Hamburg was the choosen one.
Day 3: We woke up early wanting to reach our goal and finally visit a city during day-time. After only a couple of hours of driving, we reach Hamburg, we checked-in and finally did some tourism. About Hamburg I can just say: Sehr gut! I really enjoyed the city: beautiful, full of life, lots of different tourist attractions... What I also enjoyed about the city is the fact that even though it is a big and a quite metropolitan city it is full of parks and green areas.
So finally we found a city we liked, visited all we had time to, enjoyed a great fast food meal and went back to the hotel because the next day our final destination was awaiting, oh yes! Esbjerg here we come.
Day 4: Taking our time to wake up, we ate breakfast in the hotel, took a shower and left Hamburg with a smile on our faces because we knew that a few hours from that moment our beloved erasmus would begin.
So full of excitement we hadn't experienced on the road before, singing our lungs out and enjoying all the landscape around we finally reach Esbjerg around 14:00 more or less. We than got ourselfs to the University to get the keys of our accomodation(Sct. Georgs Kollegiet, what a place!), singed the papers and decided to install ourselfs but there were only one problem: we had 3 differents keys and we tried them all the possible ways and could't open the doors, luckily one of the already installed students good out of her room and with signs and banging the doors we managed to caputre her attetion and finally got in, with a thanks and a fleeting presentation we went to each others room, open them and threw in all our luggege. We made, we were finally Erasmus students.
Sct. Georgs Kollegiet from the outside and inside
Sct. Georgs Kollegiet from the outside and inside
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