Sorry for the long hiatus, but we are in Austria at the moment. We’ll be back for the Climate Summit, however.
If you come to the city for the Summit we can highly recommend the “podwalks” by the Copenhagen architecture site CPHX. You can just download these podcasts on your mp3-player and it will guide you through the city and explain its amazing architecture to you. At the moment there are 2 English podwalks available, one along the harbor and the other one which talks to you about the new architecture along the metro line. So wrap yourself in a warm coat and start exploring!
in denmark christmas traditionally doesn’t start with getting a tree, decorating the house or making a fancy dinner! People celebrate the first sale of the JULEBRYG (strong christmas beer). So we also did get our 6 pack! Coming from Austria I have to say that this Juleøl tasts a little like more like what I know!
If the weather has been bothering you as much as it has been bothering us, we’d highly recommend to visit one of the many museums in Copenhagen. Many of them are for free, either all the time or on certain days!
I spent a few hours in the Nationalmuseet last week, learning about Viking history and all the other interesting things they have on display. It was a nice way to spend the day and meet friends who walked with me through the exhibitions and having a good cup of coffee afterwards. I can especially recommend the café at the Statens Museum for Kunst, as it has gorgeous views out on the park and the lake.
For a list of museums and all the information about them check out this link by Lonely Planet.
as days get shorter and colder inside activities gain more and more interest. watching a good movie is something most people seem to enjoy. coming from a german speaking country we’re used to see all movies translated to german on television. this might seem strange but austrians and germans are so used to it that only a some people go to see the original versions. anyways, we love to see movies in their original language which is great! you get a lot more out of it! so we are very happy that Danes, Swedes and Norwegians do not translate movies! It helps learning the language (danish also cos they always have subtitles) and it helps enjoying a dark evening!
by the way here’s a link to the danish tv-programm
You might think that’s a strange connection these three things but they connect very well after the following stories. As you might recognize we are very much into web 2.0 and so we kind of believe in technics. Likewise does Jennie, who’s a American living here in Copenhagen (since almost a life time). We kind of got to know her over the web 2.0 world and followed her blog before we started our expat blog and so we got into contact. After moving here we meet her and her husband and her amazing kids!
So we became friends and it’s as much strange as it is great to get to know people over the a web base! What ever! She has a great blog where she writes about everything that’s on her mind! It’s great to follow and even more funny when you know her + “attachment”!
Well you might ask why I posted friends, blogs and FOOD!? Jennie also has a Food blog and we know that everything on that blog tastes really good! She cooks a lot of veggie stuff (which is really hard to get here in Copenhagen). So I really recoment taking a look!
it’s always quite importent when you move somewhere else to find cool spots to go out, eat out or just a nice cosy cinema! there are some webpages who try to cover many cities, but most cities have their own place where you find everything! Copenhagen has mitKBH which has a great selection of everything you’ll need to have a nice evening out!
on a saturday this july, after 3 months wait, we finally sat down at a table with a view over the harbour at noma, namely voted as 3rd best restaurant in the world, with two michelin stars and the promise to create the finest cuisine using the best of nordic produce. as we had some anniversaries to celebrate and haven’t given each other christmas presents (I’m ashamed to say that we both forgot about them..), we decided that an evening there would be the perfect celebration as a start for our new life in copenhagen. the ambiance was relaxed, the service perfect, just like we expected.
next to the 7-course dinner, we also chose the wine menu, which consisted of 7 champagnes and a champenois, which was a white wine also grown in champagne. I can only say that it was delightful. the wines matched the food so well and I have never had a meal of such simplicity and utter perfection. the food was presented in a pure form, so beautiful just to look at! there were flowers and sprouts and raw fish, so the real taste of the food came through. it was fresh, light and delicate, nothing like I’ve ever experienced before. the meal lasted for four hours and ended with some tea from herbs they pluck themselves, which I had and some whisky for paul in the lounge. it was absolutely amazing and if we will ever both have the budget again, we will come back more often, for sure.
It’s autumn and we, coming from Austria, are used to do long walks in the forest during that time of the year. So we went last weekend with our half-expat-half-native friends to the Dyrehavn north of Copenhagen. Our friends took us there by car but if you take the S-tog (train) it only takes 25 min. from Nørreport station. You arrive directly at the entrance to the park from where you also can take a carriage drawn by horse. We decided to walk and followed the good paved paths into the large semi-wild woods. This park is called Dyrehavn because you actually get to see dyre – deers! Many of them! Close! In Austria due to the fact that habitation disturbs wild nature it’s rare that you come that close to deer’s if you just go for a walk. Of course Dyrehavn is not nature but still it’s very impressive to stand 10 m away from a roaring large stag!
Besides this performance of nature you can visit the world’s oldest amusements park Bakken with a beautiful old wooden rollercoaster and many other nice places to have fun. Unfortunately this time of year it’s closed so be patient till next spring! (But it’s worth a visit)
What would a nice park be without nice café’s and restaurants? I’d like to point out two of them. One is the Peter Lieps Hus which we haven’t visited yet but we’ve seen the cakes passing by and it looked quite promising! The other one you see on the lowest picture is the Kirsten Piil restaurant where we had a little lunch with a soup and smørrebrød which was very delicious. (If you visit the restaurants homepage you’ll see a little video of the deer’s)
So Dyrehavn seems to me a one of the most prominent weekend-walk spot’s for Copenhageners and it’s worth a visit!
