Copenhagen

We made it over to Copenhagen to visit our Danish and English friends, Helenna and Rob. It was a great trip, a bit wet on the first day but that didnt stop us! We did the tourist thing on the Saturday and hit the clubs that night, we then went on a boat cruise on the Sunday.

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Australia Vs Denmark - Loftus Road

We met up after work at the Shebu Walkabout for a few predrinks, after that we walked down to the Loftus Road Stadium. The atmosphere was electric with thousands of Aussie's walking together down the street. There were a few Danish fans in Viking gear and flags who had to listen to the chant "We've all f*cked your Princess" which they seemed to take in their stride.

Our seats were pretty good, just behind the goal in the second tier. Australia got off to a shocking start, their defense was useless and let in two easy goals due to players being out of position. We scored half way through the first half but the referee disallowed it due to pushing in the goal box, it was a goal dammit! The Danes scored again soon after making it 3 - 0 at half time.

Emerton curled a brilliant free kick over the wall and into the back of the net with 5 minutes to go to make the scoresheet more respectable.

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The next sporting fixture I will be heading to is the world club challenge in Bolton between my home team the Brisbane Broncos and St. Helens RFC. Hopefully I will see a win this time!

Aarhus - Denmark

We randomly decided to head to Aarhus Denmark after getting some free flights due to a Ryanair website malfunction, it was a great decision. The locals were really friendly and the place was beautiful. The clubs were amazing, we kind of felt out of place in t-shirts when the guys were in suits and tall blonde girls were in cocktail dresses but they let us in anyway. The single guys had a ball, Jeff did very well in this department (He might be moving to Denmark soon).

Thanks to Jeffs dealings with the locals we found out about the best night club in town called Train. It is a huge converted old warehouse with three levels and heaps of bars, it was an experiance thats for sure.

The drinks were not as expensive as we were told, we found a great a cool Aussie bar where you rolled three dice and whatever the total came to was the price of the beer, so if you were lucky enough to roll 3 ones then it was only 3 Kroners which is only about 65 Australian cents and the maximum you could pay was 18 Kroners which is $4.

We were not drinking the whole time and on Sunday we checked out the Moesgård Museum. The permanent exhibition presents many unique archaeological finds from prehistoric Denmark. Two finds from the Iron Age - the Grauballe Man, the only completely preserved bog body, and a impressive collection of sacrificed weapons.

Overall it was a magnificent trip and I would love to head back at some stage.

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