Design Museum
Copenhagen is gorgeous
Copenhagen is gorgeous! Everything is wonderfully designed — aesthetically and functionally.
The cycling infrastructure is completely integrated with plenty of space on separate cycle ways and dedicated traffic lights at larger intersections to ensure that everything flows well. Getting around was a pleasure.
And the apartments/parks/chairs/cafes/street lights were all beautiful. It all seems to be made with care and pride.
This is the first place I’ve truly felt I could live, although the Danish language is utterly incomprehensible.
We arrived in the evening, left our bags at the hotel and set about finding a place to eat. We walked about in the rain, first for a brief tour of the canal, which was calm and pretty, but empty due to the rain. After that we found (thanks google) restaurant called Riz Raz which had an awesome vegetarian buffet.
The next two days we hired bikes and rode all over town:
To the hipster streets full of run down places selling everything from 50s designer lamps, minimalist clean-designed so and so’s and vintage/op shop clothes (one where you could only swap clothes, not buy at all).
This street was amazing (https://goo.gl/maps/bQWpU) so much cool and beauty. Even if the cobble stone made for uncomfortable riding!
To the military parade ground where a marching band stopped traffic to set out to who knows where (…that was answered the day after we saw it: they march all the way across town every day as part of the changing of the guard ceremony).
To the alternative part of town which was dirty and fun where we ate in a shed full of street food vendors — I had Mexican from a guy who’d moved to Copenhagen from Mexico City 14 years ago.
To the port where you can see a huge wind farm off the coast and a statue of the little mermaid Hans-Christian-Anderson-style (not really that interesting, but there was a giant tour bus with ‘Mermaid Tour’ written on it which was full of people who did think it was interesting).
To restaurant Patepate with delicious food in the same way as Le Petit Deux in Newcastle (lovely little pieces of food in a restaurant which is the little sister of another larger restaurant).
To the interior design museum and the National Museum — both pleasant and interesting.
All in all a wonderful place.
Onto Copenhagen!
The train from Stockholm to Copenhagen. A pleasant 5 hour trip and a quick shot of a foggy wind farm off the coast of somewhere.
Last few days in Stockholm
The last couple of days in Stockholm consisted of us walking all over the place, drinking coffee, staying up late at fun bars and going to the town hall.
The prettiest cafe didn’t have a name, only an address. It’s the dark photo with the eucalypt on the table. The fish eyed photo is a buffet breakfast…all you can eat? Challenge accepted.
Anna and Hallam walking back from seeing Stephen Merchant is the grainy photo and the other two are from Stockholm city hall.
The hall is where the Nobel prize ceremony and dinner take place every year for all but the peace prize (peace prize ceremony is held in Oslo). The Stockholm hall is an odd building, eclectic in design and so full of surprises.
The room photographed is a meeting room for the local council. The ceiling was originally supposed to be plain and flat, but once the architect saw the exposed beams he decided to leave them exposed and paint it instead. I like the perfect Tetris on the walls.
Voxholm
Voxholm — pretty and eerie in the cold, haunting part of autumn