Copenhagen

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We both were very excited to begin our travelling again. We worked very hard in the last week working and packing up our house and saying goodbye to York and now everything was paying off.

We arrived in Denmark after a nice flight with some great views of the Danish countryside, many windfarms and some really impressive bridges that link the country to Sweden. We wandered to our hostel, checked in, saw a whole heap of drunk, smelly young men in our room and decided to leave the place. Luckily for us we were able to change rooms and even luckier we got our own room.

Meagan enjoying her Danish dessert
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We got a feel of the city by walking and it lived up to all expectations. The city was incredibly clean and the people were all so nice, extremely beautiful and very trendy. They even wait at the crossing until the green man tells them to move. Everyone gets around on bikes here which gets rid of traffic congestion and gives the city a beautiful quiet feel to it. You can also get free bikes from various locations around the city - we were too scared to ride on the wrong side of the road so we didnt take advantage of this.

The harbour
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We did a walking tour of the cities main sites (The royal palaces, the little mermaid statue, the black diamond, nyhavn) and had lunch in a really nice park in the city centre. We also went to the old royal palce which now houses the crown jewels and many interesting objects relating to the Danish royalty (the oldest monarch in the world). We went on a really informative canal cruise of Copenhagen (which we somehow got out of paying for) and saw some amazing architecture, both old and new. We also went to an area of Copenhagen called Christiania. This area is a seperately governed land in Copenhagen that is run by hippies and is renowned for open drug dealing. It wasnt our cup of tea - it was a bit scary and very dirty.

Entrance to hippie zone
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On our last day we were lucky enough to meet our favourite cousin by default, Darren and his wife Aasa.  He showed us a really nice place to have some traditional Danish open sandwiches ( Meagan had hers with cheese, onion and raw egg yolk). After he showed us a nice pub and we enjoyed a 'cheeky' pint. Later that night he taught David a special Danish technique to opening beer and now he is forever in his debt.