she knits. she purls.: Copenhagen, Denmark

**Photo heavy post**

Home from a great trip to Copenhagen. Just a quick 1:25min flight away is the beautiful coastal city of Copenhagen. The people are just as beautiful as the scenery, everyone is so friendly and welcoming.

Veggie Brunch

Pickled Herring Assortment

We arrived nice and early and easily found our hostel, very close to all the sights of Copenhagen. We then wandered to find some food; since we were starving by that point and stumbled upon a great library/gallery/cafe. We were so pleased with the amazing food we had; Katie had a veggie brunch and I had the pickled herring assortment. Both were extremely flavorful and beautifully presented.

A little bit of snow

We then just wandered the streets checking things out until we could check into the hostel and have a well desereved nap, followed by an amazing supper of salmon baked on a oak plank covered in the smoothest mashed potatos I've ever had. Amazing food, yum!

A cute alley way

On the second day we took a walking tour of the city where we learned some interesting history about Copenhagen and saw some beautiful sights and historical buildings, many of which were replacements of the originals since Copenhagen had 3 devastating fires burning many buildings twice before they decided to build the buildings out of something other than wood!

At the Royal Palace

The snow finally made an appearance when we were in the royal palace courtyard and it was just beautiful. Unfortunatley the snow only lasted maybe 30min. We also visited the national museum. They have a lot of viking artifacts which are very interesting. Even preserved bodies that were pulled out of the peat bogs they were sunk into hundreds of years ago fully preserved similar to mummification. The bodies were put into the peat because the vikings thought that the deceased would return to the world as spirits of the earth if they did this.

Since there are so many sand banks in the waters outside Denmark fixed lighthouses were no use, so they had 'light-ships' that would move as the sandbanks moved

Nyhavn - The harbor area of Copenhagen

One of the many canals

Under water Statue

The next day we went on a river tour of the city and saw more amazing sights. This tour included a trip to Christiania, an area of Copenhagen that considers itself separate from Denmark, and doesn't follow any of the laws of Denmark. It is also legal to purchase and smoke marijuana in Christiania. The city occupies an old army base and the people live in the old army barracks and have also built their own houses out of found materials. It was quite interesting and very organic smelling indeed.

Noma, voted the best restaurant in the world several years running, a 12 course meal will cost you 200£ which I think is resonable if its the best restaurant in the world.

The black diamond - The national library

Sunset over Copenhagen

The Little Mermaid - From author Hans Christian Anderson

Copenhagen at night

Our last day involved a lot of royalty, we watched the changing of the guard at the royal palace which was a lot of pomp and circumstance for what it was, but we found out from a policeman that a new princess was born that morning, so there was extra 'pomp' so to speak. We then went to the Christianborg Palace where royal gatherings are held as well as where the parliment is. It was quite royal we even had to wear little O.R. type shoe covers when we went inside to protect the palace.