Christiania Copenhagen

April 9:


Once again, the train ride to Copenhagen made the director's cut for its slightly interesting performance.. On the train, there are these cups that have various cafe drinks labeled on them: Cappuccino, Expresso, Expresso, ect.. Upon further inspection, Bridge and I find tin-foil mounds …

Copenhagen was an incredible city. I originally wasnt too excited about stopping here and was just using it as a stopping point between Stockholm and Amsterdam. I had no idea I would end up staying another night because I liked it so much. It is so interesting that the Danes are said to be some of the happiest/ most content people in the world. …

Hvor går det? (That means "how goes it?" but you need to be careful when you greet danes this way because they take it more as a serious question. If you ask "how are you?", you will hear about the current state of a dane's foot fungus, rather than a quick "fine, thanks." But judging from last week's comments, my loving relatives don't mind if I …

3rd July 2012

We left the park at about 2pm taking an hour bus, service 44, to Vejle where we took a train to Copenhagen. The ticket itself costs 330Kr, and a seat reservation costs 30Kr. Without the reservation, you can only sit on the non-reserved seats that you cannot tell whether they are reserved or not until someone approaches to …

Entry containing 13 photos titled: Copenhagen airport, Adilsvej, Frederiksberg, city hall, Chirstiana, Christiana

We started our day with a German breakfast buffet and a walk across the platz to the train station. We took the train to Hamburg and spent about an hour and a half walking around and absorbing the city. Then it was back to the station for McDonald's cheeseburgers (so we could say we ate hamburgers in Hamburg) and we caught our next exciting train. …

For the latter half of the "puente" I headed north to the beloved Scandinavian paradise of Copenhagen with Hannah (remember, the gal I visited in Cork?). Normally, images of people bundled up to their eyes braving the wind and snow wouldn't evoke "paradise" per se. However, the Danish way of life (especially when considered in comparison to la vida …

"Denmark? What's so cool about that country?" I asked Bridge. Of course the reply was "The Australian Princess Mary!" Haha And here we are..... We had a very enjoyable time in Copenhagen. Checking out the sights, riding bikes and the pastries! Which were devine! We arrived to a glorious Friday morning in Copenhagen and were greeted with the customs …

Copenhagen is amazing! Flew here from Paris on Saturday. Staying with Shanes friend Elen who he met in Chamonix, she has a lovely little apartment in Norreport.

Had a barbeque with some of Elens friends which was lovely, until it started raining, and the slight petrol aftertaste of our burgers. Everyone speaks really good english here. …

Today consisted of many activities, but there is one particular incident I would like to share that occurred in the afternoon/early evening.
After flea market shopping for a little while in the morning, my friend Michael and I decided to go to Christiania's to locate some stores and flea markets selling organic clothing and knick-knacks. …

We spent another day in Copenhagen, visiting the ´free town´of Christiania, which was formed by some squatters in an old army barracks in the 1970´s. The best fun though was at the Tivoli amusement park. We had heaps of fun on all the rides from ...

... Copenhagen" has nothing to do with the weather. During the tour Richard gave us lots of background information on Denmark, the Danes, and Copenhagen. The most interesting of which were: - The City has free bicycles... Yes, FREE bicycles. This ...

... you are at the very top of the church. Superb view, but very windy. We went down, and crossed the road and entered Christiania. This is a hippie village. We waked in. Lucy not realising, said, "Look at all that chocolate fudge cake for sale"? Upon ...

... I'm not really that alternative myself, but it seems a shame to lose it if thats the way it goes. Public Toilet in Christiania The locals were very funny with a sarcastic sense of humour that made me feel right at home. We had a heated ...

... about city finances here) so the rioters were probably trying to use up as much cop budget as poss. so their hassling of Christiania will have to reduce too. Clever huh.... Anyway we get as far as our local Indian (run by a very ...

... area that some of the houses are on (and that I incidentally ran through during one of my pond runs without knowing I was in Christiania).  She pointed out a co-ed sauna that for 10 krones (2 USD) you can strip down, cover yourself with mud, and then ...

... to walk around.  Nyhaven had beautiful multi-colored buildings along a pier with shops and restaurants. Jason and I enjoyed Christiania where we met numerous young travelers from all over.  It was a great community which somehow had managed ...

... -cum-apartment bordered canals, we stopped at a cafe where we sat for a while just absorbing the place. Then we entered Christiania, an ex military freetown, that's been taken over by hippies. It's very pyschedelic and reminds me a lot of Nimbim in ...

... on such a clear day, and also out to Christiania. For those of you who don't know, Christiania is a self declared pseudo-free state operating within Copenhagen. It is essentially a hippy commune which has very ..liberal policies on the use of light ...

... a catholic catherdral is in fact the Lutheran marble church, d'oh! Down to Nyhavn for a couple of rum hot chocolates, down to Christiania and an obligatory beer in Woodstock & nice dinner in a very quiet Spiseloppen and an oogle at the cool bike shop. ...