We are back from Copenhagen! It's a beautiful country but I am not gonna lie to you. It is an expensive country. Like I told my family, each meal at a normal cafe costs at least GBP20 equiv easily per person. K and I are officially on a budget now :S
Nowadays I cannot do short weekend whirlwind trips anymore. And K doesn't like the waking up at an unearthly hour, followed by rushing to the airport in the dark, wee hours of the morning. So what to do? We decided on a leisurely four day trip to Copenhagen, with a view of spending one day out in the countryside.
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| Our trusty guidebook I bought from amazon.com |
Within Copenhagen, we stayed near the harbour, Nyhavn (translated to New Harbour). Beautiful views, I loved it the first time we went there close to sunset. Camera snaps. Be prepared for a long post here! :)
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| The evening sun at Nyhavn |
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| Nyhavn |
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| One of the many restaurants along the harbour. Every restaurant provides blankets to provide some warmth, how thoughtful. |
Before we left, I got some tips from Marketa and Elissa. Surprisingly, one of the restaurants Marketa recommended was
Custom House, next to our hotel. Since we were already hungry at 6pm, we decided to go for their theatre menu (endeavour to save some DKK). Spending GBP30 each for a pre-theatre menu is not quite a big save, in fact it only added to our worry of what is to come!
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| The starter - a platter of various smoked fish, very local. |
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| I thought this photo looks pretty, with the reflections in the water. And the oh so bright and round MOON, I almost mistook it for a big street lamp in the distance! |
Exploring Copenhagen. We started by taking the canal cruise which passes by many of the famous landmarks, including the statue of Little Mermaid. Obviously I took many photos, but one of the memorable shots was when we went past this other sailboat, with workers working on the sail. Have a look below - everyone all went "whoa!" and the tour guide cheekily said "And of course, we had this scene prepared for you."
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| Was wondering what are the tiny "things" on the mast until we got closer. |
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| In case you need another shot to verify they are real people hehe |
Like I mentioned, I wanted to experience the Danish design culture, and so we went to the Dansk Design Centre. There we saw an exhibition on materials. Material engineering and the engineer within K was revived and he was intrigued by what he saw. In fact, a non engineer like me was intrigued too, so I conclude most people would find it interesting. There was a separate in-house exhibition of how the Danish design culture took off post World War II, and in fact many things we see today are designed by the Danes. For a start, did you know that lego was invented in Denmark? LEg GOdt in Danish means Play Well, and that is how it got its name.
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| In the Dansk Design Museum, with the biggest Lego brick we've seen. |
Allow me to digress and talk about Lego. We went to the Lego store which was amazing.
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| Bigger than life sized lego people on the streets of Copenhagen. Even the backdrop is pieced by lego bricks. |
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| Wall of lego bricks in 101 colours for you to pick and mix. Almost like buying sweets. |
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| The colourful Lego store where everything is made of Lego- including Nyhavn and Tower Bridge |
Ok, back to the Design Museum. We had a simple lunch of in their cafe (budget guys!) before walking around.
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| A very clean cut with lots of open spaced museum |
Another interesting thing we saw at the Hello Materials exhibition. Melting the red Coca Cola red bottle caps and melting them to make chairs. Yes that's right - chairs.
Besides using the coca cola bottle caps, the plastic bottles can also be melted and weaved into this plastic-like substance, which can be used in the production of sportswear such as football jerseys.
Some other guy invented a new type of material made of fish scales. By cleaning and washing millions of fish scales, he then coloured them and using high heat and pressure, made them into a substance resembling plastic. And he has a prototype of a pair of spectacles using fish scales. Hmm.. K wondered loudly "It must smell fishy!" I wouldn't be surprised.
Overall, a really interesting and intriguing exhibition.
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