Taking advantage of one of the
UK's few bank holidays and friend and I scooted over to Copenhagen for the Long
weekend (May 2013).
Meet with sunny skies, a bit of
wind and very friendly locals we explored the city.
After dropping everything at the
hostel, we strolled down to the waterfront for lunch. Horrendously expensive
(tourist prices huh!) but OH so pretty. Lunch was quite delicious though.
Naturally
being in Denmark, we ate Danishes, plenty of Danishes. Probably a few
too many Danishes.
The
weekend also included a visit to Christiania, old navy barracks turned hippy
commune, where we watched other tourists smoke cartoon sized joints (we just
had a cider, honest). You can’t take photos inside, so this is what you see as
you enter and exit the area.
Soaking
up the sun and getting sun burnt at Tivoli Park while watching jazz.
Also spent a large amount of time trying to find a ticket booth!
All
that was fun and everything, however the highlight of my trip by far was the
visit to the Little Mermaid Statue.
This
statue pays homage to one of Copenhagen's son's Hans Christian Andersen and his fairy tale - The
Little Mermaid. For those who don't know the original tale (spoiler
alert) Areal and Prince Eric Do Not live happily ever after. (look how little
it is)
The
statue is crawling with every tourist in Denmark, people are scrambling over
the rocks to get closer to her in hope of getting shot of themselves. Perhaps
the worst thing about travelling and visiting iconic places, you never get them
to yourself.
We
joined the circus and my friend skipped across the rocks in a rare break in
the crowd, I was camera ready.
Then,
in a moment only Mufusa would have been proud of and the worst case of photo
bombing I have ever seen, a father thrust his child into the air, announcing
him to the world. The sun broke through the clouds, birds stopped signing and ‘the Circle of Life’ started on a boom-box
near-by.
Ok, so
it might not have been that dramatic, but here is the picture, I’ll let you be
the judge.
So that
was my Copenhagen.
