The Danish are in love with their bread and dairy. It was a challenge to find food as someone who eats very little gluten and dairy!
So when I found The Social Brew in the city centre I was stoked. So stoked infact that we went back a second time :)
This was the vegan breakfast and it was fantastic.
The next thing you need to know about Danes is that they love biking. I was so impressed by the sheer number of people on bikes, including parents getting their little kids to school.
It was so fun watching men and women all dressed up nicely, expertly weaving their way through traffic. It also meant that @new.things and I had to pay a lot of attention to where we were walking!
As we walked along narrow, cobblestone streets we saw lots of tiny homes, most of which we old and gorgeous. Some of them had roses growing over the building entrance which just added to their charm.
As a general rule I enjoy people watching more than staring at architecture. But buildings don't require me to ask permission to photograph them!
And I do like it when I see things that are different than I've ever seen before. Like this structure below. I don't know what it's about I just liked the shape.
There are, however, some people who expect to be photographed. And these are those.
Brad recalled that on a trip a long time ago he had seen the changing if the guard, so we went out of our way to see it.
This is the military unit response for guarding the royals and there's so much pomp and circumstance!
While that was about the most formal thing we saw, Danes in general seem to be quite light-hearted and funny by nature.
This sign that lived inside our hotel room was a good example of this: playful, silly, anything but serious. I loved it.
parkrun was another place where I saw casual, down to earth, easeful interactions. While it was a special event (for Ascension Day, giving us an additional parkrun on a Thursday on top of our usual Saturday fix) and had very large numbers for that location, it was otherwise a pretty normal affair:
Lots of photos being taken, a first timers briefing, a run brief for everyone, a cool yet sweaty two and a half laps around the park, scanning our barcode and token, and it was all done!
In that same (big!) park we're lots of birds. My favourites were this family with (I presume) Mama Goose and her goslings!
We have (non-native) geese very similar to this in Australia but I've never seen grey ones before! 🩶
During our short stay in this lovely city, we ended up walking through several parks. We love parks, and since they're almost always free and lovely we tend to seek them out as we travel.
I went on a bit of a flower-photo-taking binge. Here are a few of them. I don't know the names of any of them! Do you?
Apart from our phones to search for things and our travel cards to pay for things, there were two items that helped us see so many things over these three days.
One of them was a 48 hour travel pass, allowing us to take trains (good), metros (excellent) and buses (didn't need them).
The other was this paper map fo the city that Brad used a lot. We get sick of staring out our phone screens so it was really nice to go old school and use a physical map again.
And while we didn't get on bikes ourselves, it was still fun to see bikes and bike paths everywhere. In fact, if cycling was built into our culture in Brisbane the same way it is in Copenhagen, I know Brad and I would easily jump onboard.
And that's it my friends! Hope you enjoyed a glimpse into Copenhagen. If you ever have a chance to go there, please know that there is oooodles more to see. I, for one, would happily return.
{All photos taken by me, I think!! If any others snuck in they'll be Brad's that he will have shared with me specifically for posts like this. 😁}