Copenhagen

After a day of Viking’ing in Roskilde, we landed in Copenhagen for a couple days of checking out the city and relaxing with one full no-driving day. 

Copenhagen is a beautiful city whose inhabitants are very proud of their home. The city center is very tourist-ie with lots of high-end shopping, but still vibrant and active. The City is likely best known for Hans Christian Anderson and The Little Mermaid. The statue of the Little Mermaid is a huge attraction even though it’s quite a walk from the main tourist center… and the whole statue is maybe 4 feet tall. Still, cool to see, and cooler to see the throngs of people who the story had an impact on… which turned out to not just be girls between the age of six and thirteen.

We also had a guided walking tour of the city. Subtracting out the ~4 mile run Alex and I did in the morning, we walked about 12 miles. Along the way we sampled Danish cuisine… which other than deserts is … Okay. The pastries and cakes on the other hand were amazing!

This was Alex’s and my breakfast (without mom there to supervise) - 

• 2 warm from the oven buns

• 2 blueberry muffins

• 2 carrot cake muffins (with cream cheese “breakfast” frosting

• Fresh fruit

• 3 chocolate chip cookies.

Along with the main city center, we also walked through Churchill Park (“Nevahh Surrendahh!”), passed some incredible fountains, toured a giant lego store, and walked through whole areas where the newest building was older than any existing structure in the US.

Overall, we liked Copenhagen, but in many ways it helped us to appreciate our new home even more. Although Copenhagen is beautiful, the city is not as clean as Amsterdam and with far more graffiti. There’s also more car traffic than Amsterdam. Even though the city scores high on walkability / bikeability, it’s at least one level below Amsterdam.

We ended a full day with an excellent dinner eaten atop a floating restaurant on the Kobernhavns Havn (say that 10x fast…). The next day we did a final workout in the hotel gym, boarded the family truckster, and hit the road for Oslo ~6 hours to the North. Leaving Copenhagen we drove over the Malmo bridge which really is an engineering marvel. Copenhagen is the first of many major capital cities on our trip. It’s given us a great taste for what to expect over the coming weeks.

And for those of you following along at home, Below is our route. We're currently sitting in Oslo (upper left corner of route) after a full day of driving North from Copenhagen.