Copenhagen

We drove to Copenhagen. With a car. To another country. WE DROVE!!!

Driving from Tvååker to Copenhagen takes about three hours. So we set off in the morning to go to the place that I first wanted to go on an exchange to, Denmark! We drove down to Malmö, the city where the Denmark/Sweden bridge tunnel starts or finishes but for me it started in Malmö! A bridge goes from Sweden to a manmade island and then it goes to a tunnel to get to Denmark! While in actual fact Denmark starts on the bridge as there is a sign saying Denmark inside the European Union flag. Where the tunnel comes out is only about a ten minute drive from the centre of Copenhagen!

We parked the car, checked into our hotel and then went to find a place to sit and eat our packed lunch. The spot we found was a park bench beside a frozen river. This place also happened to be very common place to go running and walking as there was a constant stream of people going past. A fair few gave us a bit of a strange look for sitting there have tea and sandwiches, but I mean what are you meant to do with a park bench if not sit on it to eat sandwiches and drink tea!  

After we had finished lunch we started out on the town! Copenhagen is different to Stockholm. Yes there are many similar things, but the feel of the two cities is very different. Copenhagen is so much more laid back. The city feels bigger as it has large walk ways and no roads in the centre of the city as there are in Stockholm. Copenhagen has a more summery feel to it. Whether that was because it was sunny the whole time or the fact that people were sitting outside drinking beer and eating ice cream, I don’t know! There also so many buskers out playing all sorts of music everywhere in the centre city! Copenhagen also has some really cool buildings and like Sweden they have mixed old with new really well!

We wandered around Copenhagen looking in shop windows (as no shops were open on Easter Monday) for a while. We then went to the Copenhagen Guinness World Record Museum. This place is really cool and full of amazing things! So people can do strange things and be crazy tall and eat metal! The museum also had things that we could try out, you know just in case we could break a world record! You never know! But sadly none of us broke any world records but it was fun all the same!  After going to the Museum when went to see the statue of “Den Lille Havsfrun” or in English “The Little Mermaid”. This statue is the one thing you have to see in Copenhagen and if you haven’t you haven’t been. Well that is what I was told anyway! There were lots of people there getting their pictures taken and all that! Busy wee spot!

While we were walking to see “The Little Mermaid” we walked down Nyhavn. This is the street in Copenhagen that you see in pictures everywhere about Copenhagen. The street full of different coloured buildings, many of bars and lots of people! It felt as though I had stepped into a guide books photo page! It was amazing to be there and walk down a street I had only seen in pictures!  

The next step on our trip was to eat a Danish pastry in Denmark. This was a very important thing to do! We walked back the way we had come to find a very tasty looking bakery we had seen before. Once found it was time to indulge in some rather tasty Danish pastries! Life goal complete!

The next day we started the day by going to a Lego shop. Something one has to do when going to Denmark the birth place of Lego! After that we went to a part of the city called Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania. It is a very interesting place. Once a military site it is now been taken over, a wee while ago, by all sorts of people. It is also a place that sells a lot of weed as there were signs everywhere about not taking pictures as buying and selling weed is still illegal! This is a place that is not anywhere else in the world. Only Denmark!

After going to this very interesting place we hit the road to drive up to Helsingør. This is a place north of Copenhagen in which you can catch a boat to Helsingborg in Sweden! On the way up to Helsingør we stopped at a modern art museum called Louisiana. This was one of the biggest art galleries I have ever seen with some amazing art in it! We spent a good 2 hours in there wondering around looking at all of the amazing works! So wonderful!

We carried on up till Helsingør where we had lunch which was another very Danish thing “Pølsevogen” or a giant red sausage in bread. After this we caught the boat, which took 20 mins and then we were back in Sweden!