Ricky Martin’s Blog

Well we took a trip over the holiday to Denmark, we managed to get the tickets using my airmiles, and British Airways was having a sale at the time if you used your air miles during the sale the price was half the amount of air miles needed for any location. So the beauty of that was it cost only the amount of air miles it would normally cost for one person for the two of us to travel. Since we were flying from Heathrow we got to go out of Terminal 5. The terminal itself is nice, we try to travel light as much as possible so we did not need to check any bags, we checked in online and printed off our boarding passes ahead of time. We also took the opportunity to sign up for the iris program, you can check out the info from the link IRIS System. This is an IRIS recognition system that when available allows you to use the system instead of waiting in line to be seen by a customs officer. Given the type of industry I work in, I have been traveling a lot since I have been in the UK, so this made sense to allow more options when arriving and be able to speed up the process in the airport. We Actually got lucky as when we got to the gate we found out we had been upgraded to business class, only problem was it was the first row bulkhead seats, so no storage room in front of us. The flight was smooth and for a short flight we were served a meal. we arrived in Copenhagen just around 2 hours later. We Met up with my aunt and uncle who were waiting for us. And quickly went into town to see Tivoli as it was the last day it was open when we arrived. it was nice to see, unfortunately on the way to the park, my aunt tripped on a pot hole and fell, we did not know it at the time but she broke her shoulder, we found that out the next day when she went to the hospital. During the rest of our visit we managed to see a few castles and walk around Copenhagen a bit, as well we went to see the little mermaid and the viking ship museum. but the highlight for me was really to get to see my family, I have not seen my cousins for about 12-14 years, one of my cousins already has 3 kids with another on the way, and my other cousin has been with his fiance for almost as long as since the last time I saw him. His fiance works in photography and her website is http://www.visioneye.dk/. Hopefully we get a chance to see more of them in the future given we are now in Europe, and it is a lot cheaper and easier to get together from here than from North America.