a few pics from our adventure
we were struck by the clean modern design of the airport, although it took me a minute to figure out what i've dubbed the "star wars" bathroom. you have have to stand in front of this door here and it eventually opens automatically. it felt very intergalactic.
for grandpa. these were on display in the airport...adam said they were in london at one point.
our first night there, we stopped in a pub whose name i can't pronounce. speaking of which, i tried to order gløgg but wasn't pronouncing it right so i went back and forth with the bartender a few times (glogg? glugg?) before i finally spelled it out and he went "oh! GLOOGG." gløgg is sort of like mulled wine with raisins and nuts in the bottom. my flatmate who is from sweden made some at Christmastime, so i was excited to try it again! very nice when its 10 degrees outside.
front of the pub i can't pronounce
i had a cold during our trip and thought a hot toddy might help (it did). except the bartender made it with rum, which i've never had before? i always thought they were whisky drinks but what do i know!
the danish are crazy for cycling and copenhagen was the most bike-friendly city i have ever seen. it is also a very peaceful, nice city and people seemed to leave their bikes everywhere, some of them unlocked. perhaps i'm being naive but it seemed a lot safer than london.
we made it down to the canals late afternoon on saturday and were amazed that the water was frozen! (my swedish flatmate said "duh! it's winter!" when we told her this :-) the canal looked like a giant slushie. blueberry flavour, if you really must know.
tiny jen next to big frozen canal.
this is about as much skin as i was willing to expose. even with a shirt, sweaterdress, cardigan, coat, gloves, hat, two pairs of socks, and tights i was FREEZING! the wind bit through every layer of clothing, although the sun helped us from turning into blocks of ice.
adam in a postcard.
simply amazing. i could have stood looking at this canal all day, except my eyes were starting to freeze.
i fancy a swim!
is this a toilet? who can tell! funny name though.
i've got my eye on you, bear-hat-guard-man.
hello from the danish palace? we don't really know what this was, we found it on accident.
the original little mermaid. i bet she's cold sitting there on that rock! it took us ages to walk there and adam kept looking at every statue we passed and saying "i'm pretty sure that's it", even if the statue had male genitalia. we really just wanted to hole up somewhere with a hot drink.
for dinner we headed to a small local restaurant/bar to sample the danish fare. the barman next door had recommended it, and so we turned up at 8 pm for dinner. 8 pm seemed late to us but the place was nearly empty when we arrived, save the barmaid and a guitarist. the restaurant had great artwork everywhere, including these sketches.
the man on the right is the guitar player, who came and talked to us before the place filled up. he sang mostly in danish and played all acoustic, but did a few songs in english as well. the restaurant had filled up by then and everyone - lads, older people, etc. - all sang along! it was really fun, really good atmosphere.
we wanted a true danish experience so we asked the barmaid what to order. she suggested pork roast and a danish hamburger for us to share, and said we wouldn't need starters. she was right! the food was amazing. the pork still had scratchings on it, the burger was medium rare (with egg on it) and they both came with boiled potatoes and pickled things. it was like going to grandma's house for sunday dinner (except grandma would be danish). we licked our plates clean.
the restaurant. i can't pronounce this one either.
denmark still have their own currency even though they are part of the EU. we liked that some of the coins had holes in them, and most of them had hearts on them as well. very pretty money.
i would definitely go back!
