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Sunday, 19 June 2005
Day 9: Copenhagen ::
Woke up at 8:30 this morning after maybe 6.5 hours sleep. Throughout the morning, Repeatedly went over the new arrangement of Where You Laid in my mind. Listened to V’s guitar tracks and I think there may be bits that can be transplanted into the new arrangement. But my motivation went no further; I couldn’t bring myself to launch Logic, do Save As and start moving parts around to match the new form, let alone incorporate V’s work. After 8 consecutive 12 hour days, it seemed that my brain is demanding a day off from working on the album (if not thinking about it—crud, why think about something instead of just doing it?!). The most I could bring myself to do was clear up enough hard disk space for V’s tracks. Took a nap from 12:30 to 1.
C had an engagement in Lund at 3 pm, so he picked me up at 2 and I had no trouble finding the train station after he dropped me in the old city. I got there around 3:15 and bought a ticket; there was a train to Copenhagen at 3:39 so I got a cheese sandwich and a bottle of juice. Thought I might sleep on the train, but I just watched the countryside and then the monumental bridge across the Baltic between Malmö and Copenhagen.
Got to Copenhagen around 4:45, got cash in the train station, wandered around the station a bit looking for tourist information. There was a tourist office just up the street from the station where I reserved a room for the night. Spent an hour walking around looking for the hotel in vain; by the time I’d found it I’d walked on both sides of just about every nearby street. I’d forgotten how confusing many European cities’ street numbering systems can be.
Took another half-hour nap.
After a bit, used the “follow the crowds” algorithm for exploring a strange city without a Lonely Planet guide or equivalent. After maybe an hour of wandering, found a nice Thai restaurant and took my time for dinner. Marveled that the young waitress spoke Thai, Danish and English. Enjoyed smoking between courses of a meal (after initially thinking that I wouldn’t, out of consideration for those around me—until I realized they were all smoking.)
Wandered around some more for a couple of hours, mingling with the crowds, finally went in a bar, had a couple drinks, then returned to the hotel.
The weak dollar is especially apparent with food. It’s pretty much impossible to have dinner for less than US$20, whether it’s at a roadside Danish restaurant in rural southern Sweden, or a nice Thai restaurant in Copenhagen. Cocktails were 50 DKr, $8.
One part of me is screaming “there’s so much to do; work!” and another “sleep! you’re going to need it!” Sleep wins. Hopefully I’ll get a couple hours in the morning to work over coffee before noon checkout time, then have some time to explore Copenhagen a bit more before returning to Sjöbo by train and bus. And theoretically, having gone through the new arrangement in my mind so much today should make it easy to start dragging notes around when I get back to the guest house tomorrow night.
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