copenhagen!

sooo tastey

We went to copenhagen today.  Woke up at 7, left the house at 8, stood on the bus for half hour, stood the whole time we were on the train, about an hour and 10 minutes, then walked/bussed/metro'd all around the town.  We started out taking the bus from central station to a district where there were many galleries/work shops and stopped first to get coffee.  I got an americano, no milk or sugar added and was able to drink it straight-- it was absolutely amazing.  The coffee had a nice natural sweetness, and was hardly bitter.  I think i liked it better than italian americanos.  We went around the block, and traveled around the edge of the next block where we looked at steen ipsen's workshop through a window.  absolutely awesome work.

We stopped at a small indian restaurant for lunch where i got some Lamb spinach (i'm pretty sure it's lamb saag), and that was quite tasty.  It was pretty different from the saag back in the states.  it was basically the same thing, but had more spice to it, a nice amount of heat and a richer flavor.

signage for christiania rules

after lunch, we hopped the bus to another part of town to see the ann linnemann's gallery and louis hindsgavl's exhibition at gallery christoffer.  After, we hopped another bus, caught the metro, then walked 15 minutes to Christiania.  That is an interesting place.  it used to be a military camp until the 70's, when it was squatted on by hippies.  Now it's practically a free state.  there were signs everywhere saying "no pictures".  i took a picture.  the sign on the left tells why, haha.  there were people on either side of the walk way selling hash in the open on tables.  the houses ranged from scant shacks to cute little cottages.  we stopped at a nice cafe and got some chai to warm up, then went to a bar called "nemo world".  It featured beer made with hemp blossoms instead of hops, as well as aquariums right over the ladies room stalls.  you could look up and watch gold fish swimming around.  it was a pretty nice bar, but there were no actual doors for the entryway, so there was a terrible draft.

fishies!

After the bar, we tried a restaurant in christiania, but it was full, so we caught a bus to center city and had some vietnamese cuisine.  i got rice noodles and spring rolls.  yummm.  we walked to the train station afterward.  at that point our group went from 10 to 5.  we got our tickets for the train and started the long trip home--once again standing the whole time.  the train got held up for 10 minutes because there was another train on the tracks ahead, so the conductor called in a taxi cab for us, compliments of him, since we were going to miss the last bus to skaelskor.  it was nice to sit in the taxi the rest of the way home, all warm and toasty like.  it was a really fun day.  i hope we go back again to see more. 

skol!

Central station at night.