Hey guys, I think I, completely by accident, just found the tower for Tycho Brahe. Which, if you don’t know who Tycho Brahe is, he was the most badass astronomer of all of them. If you know me at all, I’m an ex-astrophysicist, before I went on to travel the world and be a CPA and be awesome. But Tycho Brahe is so much more awesome than I could ever be. Tycho Brahe was a badass. He actually got into a fight at one point and had his nose chopped off and so they replaced his nose with a gold nose. So, this is really really awesome and so I wanted to share it, and film it, and hopefully we don’t get cut off. We’re going to go up a tower right now, to go see the observation platform, where Tycho worked. So, this is so cool. All right, let’s go.

So, as you can see we came in through the front entrance and we’re going to go up the spiral staircase here. This is so awesome. Apparently attached to quite a lovely church, as you can see here. Absolutely lovely, look at those candelabras there. Absolutely lovely, I love churches. Just especially in Europe, they’re just so different than anything they have in the states. Of course, so much older. I love, you can see the bricks here and it’s completely a platform. I’m not quite sure why. I’ve never actually seen a building like this, but you can tell the floor is completely worn in different spots. This is so cool. I’ve got a big ole smile on my face as we go up and up and up the tower. I’ll have to see if I can find some information as to why the tower was built this way, with the flat circular kind of driveway thing. I’m not sure what’s going on.

Let’s see if we can get a view out of one of these windows, maybe down on one of the streets or something. We’re in the main, kind of the old district. Been out roaming around shopping and having danish hot dogs in the meantime, but very very good. So, thank you for whoever’s watching this as we are on a tour of Tycho Brahe’s observatory, which is awesome. It’s a four story tower, I’m not quite sure how else to describe it, but as you can see there’s kind of this walkway that goes up and up and up and around in circles. Hopefully here when we get to the top, we’re going to see what Tycho Brahe saw. He’s my favorite astronomer from back in the day. Let’s go take a look outside, these windows are awesome.

Let’s see, what are we coming up on here? Cafe’, always have to have a cafe’. Round tower privy. One of the only two privy’s you can see in the little diagram here. Everything just flows straight to the ground, all the good stuff. Down to a 12 cubic meter latrine pit below the tower, how exciting. Let’s not go into the privy. This is lovely, just some of these views from up here are amazing.

Sorry guys, about that. I guess I lots some signal on the tower here. Let’s see what this is, the bell loft. The bells of trinity church. You can see some of the historical information. Oh, there’s a cool little model. So, we’re in the tower over here on the left-hand side. They’re really well know here for their jewelry, their silver and gold art work. And this must be where, Mr Brahe was, how exciting. Do you guys see that? This place is massive up here. It’s really cool.

Actually, I want to get you guys a picture of this thing. Tycho Brahe was famous for his observatory. This is the round tower university observatory. In use in 1650 to 1861. Anyway, the round tower was the main building for the observatory, so let me see if I can get you an image of that, off this lady’s shoulder here. There’s little tiny Tycho Brahe, he’s kind of a badass. He’s pretty cool, Mr Brahe. I love how they did the ceiling here with the stars. It’s really kind of cool. So, let’s go see, let’s go continue up the tower. This is pretty awesome, pretty exciting, for a science nerd like me. I am really really happy about being here, if you didn’t catch the beginning of my little thing, Tycho Brahe is awesome. So, it’s T-Y-C-H-O B-R-A-H-E, if you want to go read about him on Google. If I remember right, he liked to get drunk and get into fights. Tycho was a little bit crazy and always lots of fun.

Denmark here is just lovely, absolutely enjoying all the views of the city, and all the towers. We still have windows, we still have windows, still going up the tower here. Let’s see, where are we at here? We got to some stairs. This is so exciting. Let’s go see what’s up the stairs. You can see all the roof lines, before we go up the stairs, and see all the rough lines. They look gorgeous, I mean the city is just lovely. All right guys, let’s climb some stairs. If you hear me huffing and puffing, that’s clearly, I need to get some more work out. All this walking isn’t cutting it. Apparently it’s not just me.

God, look at that. You know, we see the whole city, so cool. Okay guys, platform, we’re going outside, upstairs. The platform, look at those stairs carved out of stone. That’s awesome. Okay, up we go. Little tiny tiny stairs. Going going going, coming up to the observatory platform. Oh my god guys, check this out. I am so so happy that I ran into this. I hope you guys are seeing this. Oh my god. No wonder this was the perfect place to observe the heavens. Absolutely breath taking. As you can tell, there are clock towers everywhere. Pretty much every single one of these big towers has a clock on it. I’m not quite sure who’s in charge of all the clocks, but they all seem to say the right time. They all seem to say the exact same time, so pretty impressive.

Absolutely amazingly beautiful. It’s kind of cool, they have all these little signs to tell you what you’re looking at in the distance here. So, you can kind of tell when you’re looking, there’s that tower, and whatever it is it’s telling you what’s up here. I’m almost all the way around to where we came up. Looks like there’s a huge park ground or something. All right guys, well this has been amazing, I’m going to stay up here and hang out for awhile and I hope you guys are enjoying Denmark. God, look at the wind turbines way off there in the distance. That’s really cool. Absolutely breath taking, breath taking. All right guys, thanks for joining me at Tycho Brahe’s observatory tower. This is probably one of the coolest things, so far, in Denmark. Especially for a science nerd like me. So, I’ll talk to you guys later. Bye.

Amazing stay at Ascot Apartment Hotels, Denmark

Hey guys. I am in Denmark. I landed in Denmark and I am so, so, so, so happy with my hotel. I am in the Ascot Apartment Hotels. I’m going to give you guys a little glimpse, a little tour. If you guys saw one of the rooms we were staying in, in Dublin, it was literally the size of like … You know, up against a wall, and there was just barely passing room and all that kind of stuff. This place is a little bit different, so let me give you a little bit of a view. This is standing at the front entryway, heading in, and then later tonight I’ll show you the main entry to the whole building. Denmark is amazing. I’m in such a good mood right now. Anyway, let me show you guys where I’m staying.

When you first walk in the door, this is what you’re seeing. There’s like a little mudroom, with a little restroom. It opens up into this lovely … I have an entire living room all to myself. Spare bed, so hey, I’m here for four days, if anybody wants to come join me. Anyway, a little kitchen, a full kitchen all to myself. Out here, we can see … Down this way is the oldest part of town, the oldest part of the whole city. I’ll be going down there later today or tomorrow. This part, that direction, that’s a movie theater right there. The big colorful things. That direction is all the new city and the new stuff that one can do in this city, in this area. We’ll definitely be going that direction as well. I am about a block, walking distance, from Tivoli Gardens, which is the number one attraction in Denmark. Apparently it’s an amusement park, so I don’t know if we’re going to try that or not, we’ll see. We’ll have to see how that goes, but continuing with the tour.

We come into the master bedroom. I’m just happy to have so much space. Guys, I haven’t had this much space in like a month. I’m so, so, so happy. I have an entire bathroom. Look at this, so much space. I can actually get in, walk around, take a shower. I’m so, so happy. You know, I can always tell when I come to Europe because, generally, everything is so, so, so small but this has just been such a pleasant surprise. So yeah, I’m going to go find some food. Got off the plane, I am starving and, yeah, I will take you guys on a tour of the city when I get out there. All right, bye.

Hey guys; it’s Shauna from Without Bags and I just landed in Stockholm today. Of course, the first thing that I do anytime I get to a new city is see if I can find some groceries, especially if I have a little mini fridge. Always good to have some snacks and some stuff so you don’t have to spend quite as much money in restaurants. Although here, it’s really actually kinda cool. Even though the city seems, not seems it is, extremely modern, lots of high rises. Let me see if I can give you a little view out my hotel window here.

You can see, I’m in a hotel and completely surrounded by other buildings, other hotels. There’s a beautiful courtyard, they have some really nice spaces but definitely very modern. All the stores, everything is very up to date. I do feel like if you’re from Arizona and walking through Paradise Valley or Scottsdale, all high-end type shops, that kind of thing. Definitely, one of the first things that I always, always do is stop and see if I can find some groceries. I was very lucky this time, my hotel room, which I am in is awesome if you guys can see it.

Let me give you a little round-about tour here. There’s the look outside the window. Very nice and simple, which I really like, clean, really cute, right in the center of everything, I’m literally walking distance to all of the different historical sites and all the different museums and that kind of thing, which is fantastic. Sorry, kind of getting off a little off on tangent. Yes, always love going to a local grocery store to get some food just to have in the room, be able to carry with you. Today I actually had a lot of fun going to the grocery store, got quite a haul so I figured I would share some of the interesting things I found in the grocery store today. So, let’s see what we can find here.

Wanted to start off with, I normally love cider so salt and vinegar chips and this one is sea salt and cider vinegar, which I can’t wait to try, I’m super excited about that. If you know me, you know that I love me some meat so, Iberian ham flavored chips, have to try them. Got some candies, I love black licorice so ended up with some straight black licorice, maybe some green black licorice, I don’t know what’s in there so I’m gonna try it, looks like maybe strawberry flavored black licorice and some other little candies. Then picked up some basics like some carrots, some tomatoes, and cucumbers and things that you can kinda cut up and eat and just snack on, a little more healthy than potato chips and black licorice.

In the bottom of my hotel, there is apparently one of the cities most famous restaurants for mussels. Very exciting, so I’m thinking wine and mussels are on the dinner menu tonight. I’ll let you guys know how it goes. I hope you guys are having a wonderful day and it’s lovely here in Stockholm. I’ll get back on whenever I have something interesting to say. If you haven’t subscribed, definitely subscribe to Facebook, youtube, all those other things and share with your friends. Always looking for more family for Without Bags, I’d love to get your guys feedback. Has anybody been here to Stockholm, anything that I absolutely have to see while I’m here? Let me know. I’ve got three days, three and a half days here so definitely let me know. Thanks guys, bye.

Slice of San Francisco, Copenhagen

Hey, guys. It’s Shauna from Without Bags, and I just had to check in with you guys because I just ate the most delicious burrito and, if you guys know me, I’m from Arizona, where we have the land of burritos. I am in a place called the “Slice of San Francisco,” in Copenhagen. Definitely, definitely look it up. It’s on Trip Advisor. It’s very highly ranked, and the food was amazing. I had the mixed burrito, with beef and chicken. Absolutely to die for, delicious. Apparently, she makes her own black beans.

Then of course for dessert, I had a fantastic piece of cheese cake, with this blueberry-rose sauce that is to die for. So, just shout out to anybody coming to Copenhagen, you guys need to eat here at Slice of San Francisco. It’s really close to the National Museum. It’s like right across the street, and it’s kind of down stairs, like in a little basement-type thing. It’s way cute. If you can see behind me, and I’ll try and give you guys a little view here so you can see. So it’s really super-cute and the food is absolutely amazing, so: I highly recommend it. I’ll see you guys later. All right. Bye.

• So every time I travel, if it does not fit in the carry on, it is not coming with me.
• Now I am so so so excited this weekend I’m going to try and film a video for you guys about my new carry on, it’s a Tom Bihn, B-I-H-N, carry on, and we’ll put links down in the commentary below.
• As far as links on Amazon, that kind of thing, if you guys want to check it out, but basically I have met traveler after traveler after traveler who this is it, this is their only bag.

Hey everyone, it’s Shauna from Without Bags, so today we’re going to be talking about my brand new carry on. If you’re here on this website and you’ve read some of the previous posts, you know that I do not check bags. That is why the name of the website is Without Bags. So every time I travel, if it does not fit in the carry on, it is not coming with me.

Now I am so so so excited this weekend I’m going to try and film a video for you guys about my new carry on, it’s a Tom Bihn, B-I-H-N, carry on, and we’ll put links down in the commentary below. As far as links on Amazon, that kind of thing, if you guys want to check it out, but basically I have met traveler after traveler after traveler who this is it, this is their only bag. I’ve even met a gentleman who lives out of this bag, that’s it, he is a complete nomad, he lives out of this bag. So I’m so so so excited to bring you guys basically a packing video this weekend. I am going to be test packing for Iceland. The upcoming trip is Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, and Estonia.

So way excited, I’ll be adding five new countries this trip and my biggest question, if any of you guys have been to Iceland, I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to fit winter clothes. We live here in Arizona, trying to figure out how I’m going to fit winter clothes in my one carry on. So if anybody has any tips or tricks, I would love to hear it. I guess you guys will be seeing the packing video on Saturday. So love any feedback, if any of y’all have been to any of those places, please give me your top thing that I have to see in any of those countries, that would be Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, and Estonia. Hope you guys are having a great day and I’ll talk to you later. All right, check out this weekend for … probably Saturday for the packing video.