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!
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Did you have a sip from The Spring of Kirsten Piil? It’s cures illness gives you eternal youth, they say
I always wanted to visit that park but I guess I’ll wait until next year to visit. Thanks for sharing.
l?se hele blog, pretty good