18 July
8pm - Flying over the many small islands, we land at Copenhagen airport
8:30pm - A school friend who now lives in Copenhagen picked me up from the airport and we took the very easy and quick Copenhagen metro into the city center. Ate some candy and had a chill evening catching up.
19 July
10:58pm - Having walked along the Vesterbrogade main street past Tivoli Gardens amusement park, I get to the main square and get ready to start a walking tour.
1:45pm - Finished the tour by the Amaliehaven square. It was a great tour which was very entertaining and was a comprehensive tour about Copenhagen but also about Denmark and Danish culture more generally.
2:30pm - Having met up with my friend, we headed to the Torvehallerne market where I tried smørrebrød, the quintessential Danish dish of an open-faced sandwich on rye bread.
4pm - Having walked through the city and the kings garden, we ended up further north at the Danish Design museum. My mum is a huge lover of Danish design and so I felt I had to go to this museum for her (she has never been to Copenhagen).
4:30pm - after seeing lots of funky furniture, we end up in the “chair room”. It’s a slightly dim long room with shelves filled with… chairs. 3 high, these chair shelves line the walls.
5:30pm - Having walked through Kastellet, a star shaped island with a 17th century fortress, we ended up at the northern end of the city by the water. I’m kind of excited to see the little mermaid statue but had been told by both the tour guide and my friend that it was known as one of the most disappointing monuments in Europe.
5:32pm - It’s a small statue and not particularly exciting but “the most disappointing” seemed a bit exaggerated, maybe this came from the view being blocked by the many tourists? It does have some fun facts, namely that it had been decapitated twice and had its arm taken off and that when it was at the World Expo in Shanghai, there was a 24/hr video screen at the Copenhagen harbour of the statue in China.
5:40pm - We decide to take lime scooters to the across town, more hipster area of Nørrebro. I’d recently read an article about most bikeable cities which put Copenhagen at number 1. Being Dutch, I’d scoffed at this rating but while everyone bikes in Amsterdam, the width and accessibility of the bike paths everywhere in Copenhagen made me see why it was in first place. I’d never tried lime scooters and I loved zooming down the bike lanes with nostalgia for 5-year old me (non-electric) scootering to school - the high price not so much though.
6pm - Hopped from a few eateries in the area getting tacos, fries and cocktails.
9pm - Scootered to the meatpacking district, which is now a revamped and bougie food area. Walked around to find an affordable (for Copenhagen, at least) place to grab a drink - I ended up settling for a milkshake at a burger place.
20 July
12pm - After a relatively long bus ride to the north-west of the city, we got to Reffen, a large open-air food court with lots of food trucks out of a large warehouse. There were lots of things to choose from but we settled for affordable yet delicious large pitas and falafel bowls.
1pm - Sat on free deck chairs by the water and enjoyed the sunshine
2pm - Took the bus and ended up at Christiania - a “free town” alternative community with entrances covered in graffiti after which you are not allowed to take pictures.
2:30pm - Came back to the Nyhavn area to take more pictures with the colorful houses lining the canal.
6pm - Got on a plane at Copenhagen airport to…
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