The journey just gets better - Copenhagen 7/4 - 10/4
If you thought Amsterdam was great… Copenhagen is this perfect little world, home to Hans Christian Andersen and his fairytales (which are not so fairytale-like) where everyone is friendly, the air is fresh, the city - modern, with the finest facilities and buildings that have such charm. Spring in Copenhagen is magical… with flowers bursting out of the ground in almost full bloom, sunlight that makes the waters glitter and shopping to make all girls squeal in happiness. The only downside is that everything’s pretty expensive. We also found out that.. Copenhagen has one of the highest happiness levels in the world, but at the same time the highest suicide rates.. how queer.
Our stay in Copenhagen was made even better by our awesome accommodation - Best Western Mecure. The room was comfty and huge and we were as Singaporean as we could get, emptying the fruit bowl at the reception and sneaking half our buffet breakfast away for lunch and dinner in order to save money. But hey. We paid for it!
Street food is one of the must trys at Copenhagen. So we got a hot dog each. It was juicy and the ketchup was different in a good way. Okay, and once was good enough.
This is the hot dog man near our place. I never fail to say hi to him every morning.
Spring in Copenhagen!
And one of the amazing bakeries there..
The first day was spent visiting gardens all over, soaking up the sunshine and just taking loads of pictures, not to forget laughing at all the greek statues that seem to stare at you from every angle. Some of them have really creepy eyes.
Like this one. Some smart ass decided to colour in the eyes. I wouldn't want to be near her at night.
Thanks to Mildred's magic touch, we got a free ride on a carousel at the toy store!!!
We covered the tourist attractions throughout the course of the next 2 days, managed to fit in quite a fair bit of shopping, and also had a vegetarian buffet dinner at a popular restaurant RIZ RAZ with Sam. The falafels were so so so good, but we were all so thirsty after that. Must be the immense amount of salt they poured into the food.
Cycling’s very big in Copenhagen, and the government provides free city bikes at a deposit of 20kr (5 SGD), so that’s what we did on day 3 and visited a church where we climbed all the way to the spire and saw Jesus in gleaming gold. It’s a really pretty church.
View from the top of the Church
BUT someone stole our bikes away at the Church. So in the end we went everywhere else on foot.
This is mermaid II, a sad alternative to mermaid I, the original which we did not get to see because she was lucky enough to be flown to Shanghai for an exhibit.
Oh and Christiana! It’s this part of Copenhagen that doesn’t belong to the EU, where drugs are sold legally and pot smoked openly. It even has its own flag!! It was quite an experience, stepping into the dodgy little neighbourhood, with massive graffiti scrawls all over, huge iron containers where fires are lit so people can smoke conveniently. Pictures aren’t allowed but I managed to sneak one or two before approaching the danger zone. People there look half drunk.. and a bit high on whatever they were doing.
Sam said they’ll take ur camera and smash it to bits so we didn’t want to take chances.
We had gelato 3 times! Paradis - it’s a franchise, but their gelato is one of the best I’ve tasted. The vanilla in mel’s words has “craploads of beans”. It really does, you can hear the crunch when u eat them. The 3rd time we had it was at the train station and they were having some promotion, each of us got two scoops absolutely FREE.