Carlsberg Breweries

First of all, THANK YOU Mum and Dad for sending up stuff with Uncle Jimmy to Copenhagen! Whilst there are stuff I could posssibly get here if I search hard enough for it, the cost would still be exhorbitantly ridiculous. And since Uncle Jimmy was making the trip up here, it was perfect that he helped us with this favour. So when I was in Copenhagen in the afternoon, I passed by First Hotel to meet up with Uncle Jimmy, and collected a bagful of "re-supplies", including CNY loveletters (to my utmost surprise) and my adidas running shoes (so I can finally attempt to rid myself of an ugly beer belly)! Thanks to Uncle Jimmy too, I got a copy of The Straits Times! It's almost like mental stimulation or brain food knowing how close you are to news back home, in hard copy!

Okay, let me start with Saturday all over again after getting over with my thank-you speech.

We headed out to Lyngby at 11am for the Carlsberg Breweries in Enghave (2 train stops from Copenhagen) after hearing tonnes about it. We arrived and was greeted by the sign telling us how far we had to walk around the whole brewery in order to enter the place.



After several hundred kilometres of walking (and tourist-y phototaking of the surroundings), we arrived at the Carlsberg Museum. Normal admission per person costs 40dkk or SGD$10, but we students pay only 25Dkk, or SGD$6.70, and *drum rooooooooolls* it's inclusive of your choice of 2 (out of 8) types of brews at the bar at the end of the tour! There's even a stable where a couple of horses are housed.



Of course, the best wrap up to the tour had to be a visit to the sovenir shop and bar to claim our two beers! To anyone else who will visit the Carlsberg Breweries, you must try the Jacobsen Sanz Blonde (7.1%), most "value-for-money" because it's the biggest cup and strongest alcohol content, tasting good and not-too-bitter. Somehow drinking the beer in-situ and drinking them out in the commmercial market are two worlds apart. Really. We all got high after one glass and the second one simply convinced us a second trip to the musuem was in the works.



After we left around 4pm, we walked towards Copenhagen where Grace was supposed to meet her friend, and me, Uncle Jimmy at First Hotel. It was hilarious seeing and hearing Siong Yang talking and singing so much, who was high from 6 powerful beers he shared equally with Yuanheng. After that, everyone had much trouble holding back their pee we spent a good deal of time trying to find a toilet too.

After meeting up with Uncle Jimmy, we headed over to Central Station where Grace met her Singaporean friend studying in UK's Imperial, Vincent, who was here on holiday. We got hungry and I brought them all to Aladdin's Pizza just 5 minutes away, which my dad first recommended when I was in Copenhagen on the 2nd night. There, 8 of us shared 5 pizzas, with each pizza averaging 50Dkk or SGD$13 thereabouts, thus settling lunch and dinner at one go.


Later, we strolled about the main walking street to while our time before going back. We wanted to go to the Studenthouse (a bar for students only) where tonight's special was a 10Dkk (SGD$2.60) admission fee and 100 litres of free flow beer but after walking about till 8pm in sub-zero temperatures and realising it starts at 9pm, we gave up and headed back to Lyngby. After all, we had our fair share of alcohol early this afternoon at the Carlsberg Breweries on an empty stomach furthermore.



Okay, enough typing, I'm gonna go read my first english newspaper in 3 weeks now. Let's hope the Straits Times has good news to share. Here are the rest of the pictures... http://ableabel.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album07