Travel day so this will be brief. After barely making the train to Hamburg at 5, I caught the connection to Copenhagen and was disappointed to discover that there were no non-reserved seats in the entire train, so my Eurail pass got me on board but without a seat. I knew this was possible but thought it unlikely given how early I'd started. Anyway, I found a relatively unobtrusive section of floor and sat there for the next 5 hours. We got our passports inspected at the border again, further eroding my impression of Schengen. The rail infrastructure was ok but the trains really didn't impress me that much. Even if I hadn't been sitting on the floor next to the latrine, the seats had no electricity or modern comforts. The bridge from Fyn to (old) Zealand is really cool and has an awesome view out over the channel, though, so that part of the trip was interesting. Other than that, lots of open fields and countryside that doesn't make especially exciting viewing.

I met up with my parents at the apartment they rented. It's really nice and a welcome upgrade from my crowded dorm rooms. We walked around the city a little in the afternoon, though we didn't stop at many specific attractions. We saw this big cathedral and some royal palace, but I was so tired nothing really registered much with me. My first impression is that the city is very pretty and reminds me of a more diverse Amsterdam. I'm looking forward to going out and really seeing more of things tomorrow, despite the metro being terribly marked and extremely confusing. It doesn't have many lines and isn't anywhere near as complex as most of the other metro systems I've navigated on this trip, but I found it very unclear which direction the trains are running. Maybe I was just tired, though, since by now it had been well over 30 hours since I'd slept at all. The payment system is also extremely inconvenient and annoying - easily the worst implementation I've seen thus far in my time in Europe, possibly including the archaic but otherwise functional system Szczecin has. It is extremely frequent and clean, though. Copenhagen is a great example of how exchange rates nominally being "favorable" doesn't actually mean anything - the Danish krone is worth about 15 cents, but everything here costs so many krone that stuff still seems pretty expensive anyway.

Early night tonight (I initially fell asleep around 5 PM, I'm typing this after having woken back up to make the last of my ramen).