Taylor came to visit Copenhagen! Wooooo. While Taylor was doing his year of travel for Branner, I was lucky enough to visit him in GREECE over spring break. Not too bad I’d say. Well the roles have been reversed and it was time for Tay to come visit me in a faraway land.
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| Throwback to the Greece trip |
I’ve taken the opportunity when people visit to use it as an excuse to see the touristy stuff I haven’t had time for yet. Thank goodness Taylor came with suggestions because I didn’t actually have that many sights on my list. Just to get acquainted with the city we went on a bike tour. The city isn’t that big, but you still cover some ground. We stopped along the way to check out cool buildings, a toyshop, the Danish design center (had been on the to do list) and try a typical Danish hot dog. Most people know my fascination with the bikes here so luckily we could borrow one to see the city the proper way.
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| In front of the Town Hall |
Since my brother happens to like art, here was another great excuse to visit Louisiana Modern Art Museum. It was a day trip by train to a beautiful property right on the water overlooking Sweden. Although our timing was a bit off, we went right in the middle of exhibits, it was still a great trip and we were able to see some of the countryside on the train ride back.
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| Louisiana |
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| Cool exhibit |
One of the highlights for both of us was our day of architecture touring. We started off at the Architecture school and the new famous opera house. Where I live there are tons of modern buildings, but a few of special significance. We went to two of the most well known ones,
8 House and
The Mountain. The best community we saw though was
Sluseholmen. It is a series of 350 apartments (all different) with small canals running through all of the buildings and green spaces in the middle. We all decided it was our favorite visit of the day and would gladly move there.
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| Biking around the city |
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| Sluseholmen |
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| The Mountain |
The week finished with the release of the annual Christmas beer by
Tuborg. Taylor and I (mostly Taylor) cooked dinner for the kitchen, a lovely mussel soup with roasted potatoes and salad. There was a Christmas party going on at Tietgens and then we headed to the city for the festivities. The streets were packed with people drinking Christmas beer (it’s not actually very good) and sporting Tuborg Christmas hats and coozies. It was a great Danish celebration and timing worked out perfect that Taylor was here for it!
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| Christmas beer party in Tietgens |
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| Blue Steel? (Tay with some guys from the kitchen) |
Other points of interest on the trip: tour of Carlsberg brewery (the Danes are very proud of their beer), meeting my HK friends at Nexus the student bar, and going to a delicious dinner on a boat!
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| End of the brewery tour - we got a few extra for free (not pictured) |
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| Part of the crew at Nexus |
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| Dressed for our nice dinner! |
