Getting settled

Finally Spain delivered, a great Sunday was had by all as my second team (behind NZ of course) & pick for the title delivered on their last 50 years of potential! We watched the game at a South African bar of all places although I think I was the closest person to a South African at that place. Problem so far has been there's no where to watch the All Blacks that I've found so far, word has it they've been playing reasonably well lately?

Well this week saw me finally grab myself a bike, I don't know what I would have done without one to be honest, so far in one week I've covered nearly the whole of Copenhagen city & even managed to travel out & up the coast. Bikes here are a definite must have commodity, obviously we don't have the infrastructure for them in NZ but here in Copenhagen nearly every street is bike safe, even pedestrians give way!

It's been a bit of an up and down week with the bike though. I now bike to work everyday, only takes around 10min and is great for helping to wake me up in the morning. No helmets required here in Denmark, this certainly makes things easier for getting around and about, personally though I think it's to protect the Danes' hair, quite styli those Scandinavians! Funnily enough as it would happen biking doesn't quite work so well when it's raining. Tuesday saw a downpour between 8-9am, right when everyone was heading to work! Thankfully my trusty MacPac is waterproof but the rest of me wasn't. I arrived into work drenched from head to toe along with half the others in the office, still; at least the rain was warm – for now.

Found out this week that Maersk happen to have 5 yachts moored in the local marina just down from work. Luckily for me, my colleague had been looking for a crew & I happen to be able to put one together. So a sunny breezy Thursday afternoon/evening turned into a great time out sailing the Copenhagen coast with a case of beers. One thing I'll give the Danes is they really know how to perfect this whole work life balance business (come 4pm on a Friday afternoon you'll be hard pressed to find someone in the office still)…

It's been another sunny day here today so what better way to get over a hangover than a bike trip up the coast. Andrew led the way & we tripped on up the coast for a good 25 or so kms, found a nice marina, grabbed a cider (delicious ciders here in Denmark by the way) then turned round and headed back. Legs aren't quite used to that so they're starting to ache a little now but I have a feeling I'm going to need to toughen up and get used to that if I'm going to be biking all the time.

I've just started hearing noises from upstairs so I have a feeling that maybe the neighbors might have either just moved in or just returned from holiday – mission for this week, meet the neighbors!