Couchsurfing in Roskilde

Last weekend I had my first official couchsurfing experience. If you don't know what couchsurfing is, check it out www.couchsurfing.org basically it's an international network of people offering up their couches for free to travelers and travelers who are seeking such couches/people. I was a little nervous about it because I'd never done it before and I was staying with someone I didn't know. I stayed with this guy Jon in Roskilde, which is about an hour train ride from Faxe. Roskilde is the old capital of Denmark and it's home to this amazing cathedral/mausoleum where the royal families from the last 700 years or so are entombed. It's also on a fjord and has a lot of ancient Viking history associated with it. Jon turned out to be a really cool guy, super laidback and easy to get along with. He calls himself an inventor and he makes medical instruments for cancer treatment. He was pretty much my personal tour guide for the weekend and we walked all around Roskilde and he told me the history and ins and outs of the town. We made delicious Indian food together and a few of his friends from a few floors down in his apartment building came up to eat with us. Jon's apartment was really small, just a living/bedroom, kitchen and bathroom but it was really nice. All of the windows were floor-to-ceiling and he was on the 10th floor so he had great views of the city and the fjord.
We went out to a concert venue/cafe called Gimle and the music sucked but we had a good time anyway with his friends and we hung out, had some beers and played Ludo (Danish version of Sorry!) for awhile.
The next day we checked out the cathedral which was really spectacular and I took about a million pictures, which I'll try and post here soon. The church area was in the middle of the cathedral and then all of the different rooms with the royal remains formed a big square along the outside. Some of them had really elaborate scenes painted on the walls, showing details from the person's life. I think Jon also had fun being a tourist in his own town. Later that day we drove in his Smart Car (so tiny!) to a forest outside of town where we went on a nicec walk in the woods and then we sat by the fjord and drank tea for awhile on this sandy hill and watched kids try and climb up the hill which was pretty amusing. Overall a really great weekend and I now have faith in couchsurfing!