Copenhagen, part 1

Perhaps none of us that doesn’t know about the fairy tale “The Little Mermaid”. In my childhood reading, I believed that the story has a happy ending but since I grow up, the Little Mermaid has become a sad love story for me. The Mermaid has given up her life and her identity in order to gain the prince’s love and a human soul.

But when the prince marries the princess, her hearts breaks, she has only one chance to become the mermaid again by killing the prince, to let his blood drip on her feet. She chooses to scarify herself instead of killing him. She dies and her body dissolves into sea foam, turns into spirit and be with the air…

I wished I could one time visit the homeland of the author, Hans Christian Andersen. And I got a chance to visit it this summer. Copenhagen, a very modern city but it still brings me the feeling of a fairy land with the beautiful castles, buildings, king and queen…









The sight when I was in Canal tours in Copenhagen

Nyhavn is a perfect place in summer to enjoy the food, coffee and ice cream. You can watch people and the boats go by.  It is also the area where there are many prominent artists living. Hans Christian Andersen was living in one of these.

The water is this emeral green, so pretty!





Some flowers on the way to see the Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid statue is one of the most important tourist attractions in the city. She is made of bronze, 125 cm tall, 175 kg weight and also a victim of vandalism for several times. She is very small, someone told us not to be disappointed to see her because it is too small compare to our imagination. But I knew it already. Though it was a little bit windy but the weather favoured to us, sunshines for the whole journey!

Buffet in my class

Last Wednesday was the day that all students in my class has to cook his/her own country food. It was fun and interesting to taste the foods from different countries from Europe, Africa to Asia. My classmates are from Spain, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, China, Mozambique, Thailand and me Vietnam...So, I got the chance to taste international lunch at once.



I made spring rolls and many friends like it. They were asking for the ingredients but since I don't have the recipes with exactly show how to do it. I just put the minced chicken, shrimp, dry shiitake mushrooms, cellophane noodles, eggs, salt, sugar, and pepper, and mixed them together, rolled and fried in pan with oil. They are pretty much simple, isn't it?

Stockholm, 2013

I visited Stockholm 3 weeks ago after 2 years, but I just felt like yesterday because I got the same feeling and excitement. 

My favorite time on board: “testing” the products. 12 hours on board for one way is pretty much. So besides eating, talking, my friend and I went to tax free shop to look around. It was where I found my new beloved perfume : Elie Saab le parfum. I’m saving the money to buy it. When the night came, I went to watch the music show and had some drink…

The quality of buffet on board has been degrading. Some food was still the same but their tastes were so boring comparing to the last 2 years ago. The nice thing was that we were eating next to the window where we could see the sunset on the sea. I didn’t take the camera with me but the sight was really great. Writing these line I still imagine myself sitting near the window enjoy the dinner watching the sun goes down to the orange red cloudy horizon.

Pop up some beautiful Guerlain make up products.

Arrive in Stockholm

Having some strawberry cheese cake at Sundbergs Konditori, the classic coffee with milk. My friend order Sacher cake and cappuchino.













This trip I was supposed to watch the cherry blossom but unfortunately the flowers weren’t bloom yet. When I asked people where is Kungsträdgården (the King’s Garden in Swedish), they showed and I saw nothing. Only trees with branches, a little pinky, nothing as I expected. At home I thought it was a beautiful garden, the flowers must all bloom right now, and all in pink…:(













Playing chest under flowers garden, cool!