Copenhagen

After a one day work week, we got up at 430 and quickly loaded up to make our 7am flight out of Heathrow. Copenhagen was a 90 minute flight and then a short (but packed) metro ride to our first stop, brunch at Polly’s (recommended by our Airbnb host). It was a delicious breakfast (at 1130 local time) and we grabbed a few groceries before walking the 20 minutes on the cobblestone sidewalks to our Airbnb to drop our bags (lucky that they allowed us to do that). It is a cool apartment lived in by an artist and her family and in the area of Vesterbro which has tons of restaurants and shops, but a bit less touristy. They have cool community spaces here- basketball and football courts, ping pong and tons of benches where people sit and visit and eat.

We wandered toward the Center of town window shopping and finding all of the things that they want in the LEGO store for Christmas and met up with our free walking tour by city hall. It is Pride week here now and there was live music and vendors nearby. Claes, a Danish guy, took us on a 3 hour tour of the city. We saw important building and squares, had a crash course in Danish history, learned a few Danish words and of course learned about the food. At the break we grabbed the recommended pastries- yum! We noticed a lot of similarities with Iceland- food, the concept of hygge (cozy comfortableness, spending time with people who mean a lot to you). We knew that Greenland and the Faroe Islands are part of Denmark and I asked him about Iceland (which was part of it until 1950). We learned a little about the monarchy and their tax system. The kids enjoyed it too. Afterwards we walked around the harbour, hung out and found a place to have traditional Danish food (at least dinner food, the weird herring sandwiches will have to wait for another day.

Tomorrow we head to the 3rd oldest amusement park in the world. Kids are stoked.
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