With so many places we'd like to visit in Europe and not knowing where to begin we chose Copenhagen as our first trip outside of the UK based on where was cheapest to fly for the long weekend (Sat Oct 5th-Tues Oct 8th) we wanted to go. We were quite excited to check it out as we knew little about the city before heading there!
My favorite part of Copenhagen was a small harbor/shipyard area called Nyhavn. Most of these colored buildings are around 300 years old! Today the area is lined with restaurants with outdoor seating. We enjoyed drinks here our first afternoon.
On Sunday our first full day we did ALOT of walking and covered most of what there is to see in Copenhagen. We toured Rosenborg Castle which was built in the early 1600's. My favorite thing to see here was the Danish crown jewels. Pretty impressive!
Hans Christian Andersen author of fairy tales such as The Little Mermaid and The Princess and the Pea spent alot of his life in Copenhagen. There are many things in the city dedicated to him including the famous Little Mermaid sculpture. We found this to be quite hilarious that people were flocked to see this sculpture. Notice she is out on a rock... in order to get a pic with her you had to step out into the water over a few other rocks. We were just waiting for someone to fall in! Never happened and we decided to just wait for people to move out of the way and quickly snapped this pic... not to great but you get the idea.
Here are some other pics from exploring the city...
We learned that biking as a commuter option is HUGE in Copenhagen! Everyone was on bikes! They had separate bike roads all through the city along side the normal roads that cars drive on. Much larger then the normal bike lanes in Minneapolis for example.
And of course there was no shortage of Danish pastries!
We wandered through some pretty botanical gardens...
Below is the Oresund Bridge which stretches from Denmark to Sweden. We decided to take the train (35 min ride) across into Malmo, Sweden to check it out!
Malmo's tallest residential building in the background
Downtown Malmo
We were there just long enough to have lunch and wander the city center a bit. Some things we did learn... much colder on the other side of the bridge... could not read anything... sometimes you just order food when you can't read and hope it will be good (luckily it was!) Lastly when looking for the restroom and making the assumption "Herr" means women's... that is incorrect!
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