Having not left the country since my trip to Paris in the New Year, Alex and I decided it was high time we went on an adventure of our own, and spent three days in the beautiful city of Copenhagen, Denmark. Despite the grizzly early morning start and the packed flight, the journey went smoothly and we arrived in the City in time to enjoy our first evening there. We were very lucky in that we had inadvertently visited the city during a week long jazz festival, and so spent hours exploring the city with music everywhere, from a big band performance in the heart of the city, where we climbed the Round Tower and had hotdogs from one of the 50+ stands (tofu hotdogs ftw) to a lone saxophone player on the waterfront where we spent the last hour of sunshine sat with beers and watching the world go by.
Also enjoy Alex and I rocking the 'three hours sleep and five hours in various stages of transit breathing recycled air' look.
Our second day started with a long lie in and taking the bus in the wrong direction, but once we'd sorted ourselves out we navigated our way to SOULS, an amazing vegetarian cafe where I fawned over the decor, and the menu... and the slogan (eat like you give a fork). I had a giant ass salad with tofu, sweet potato and avocado and the best couscous I have ever tried, and my normally meat eating boyfriend tried a barbecue veggie sandwich.
After we'd eaten we spent the afternoon wandering through the botanical gardens and pretending we were in Jurassic Park, exploring all the strange and beautiful plants that were growing there. We also managed to walk through Castle grounds, visit the official Lego Store (where we made not totally insulting Lego figures of each other) and explored the huge Black Diamond Library.
The evening was spent all dressed up for dinner and drinks in the hotel's Sky Bar, looking out over the lights of the city.
Our last day before our late flight was very chill, we spent the morning in the food market, eating ice cream and drinking beer in the sun by the waterfront. We also passed by Yoko Ono's art piece, where people were invited to add pieces of paper with wishes on them to the trees she had put there. We both added our own (not telling each other what they were) and it's quite nice knowing that even though we've left, our little scraps of paper will be fluttering in the warm wind. At least until Denmark has a rainy spell and it all turns to soggy grey mush but I suppose there's beauty in the impermanence of art.
Although it's very easy to be enchanted by a place while you're there, even now I'm back I think it was one of my favourite places to have travelled to. The whole city has such a chill atmosphere with an understated pride in it's architecture and culture, and it is small enough to navigate without being overwhelmed in a tourist swarm. I'm going to be looking at PhD options over the next year and I would be very interested to see if there was an opportunity to go back for a longer period and be part of this beautiful city.
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