Girls Gået Vild: Copenhagen Edition

While many 18- to 25-year-old Americans are laying out on Miami Beach, South Padre, Daytona or one of the hundred other beautifully sunny and warm Spring Break destinations, I'm in a city that's averaging about 45 degrees and has a very consistent 70 percent likelihood of precipitation-- dear, ol' Copenhagen. And even though I might not be sporting that post-Easter Break bronze alongside my buddies come April, I wouldn't choose anywhere else to be!

Meeting locals while cruising the city in typical Danish style, with (Lego) pedal power.

My younger host brother and I are visiting his big brother and girlfriend here in Denmark's capital city. Even though I was here last August for a weekend, it's a whole new experience exploring the city during spring. I mean, just one example is that flowers are slowly taking over the city rather than hoards of summer tourists. 

Strolling through Copenhagen downtown from Tivoli to the Little Mermaid.

We got into Copenhagen yesterday bright and early at 8:05am. The metro from the airport into town is pretty convenient... usually. Yesterday, however, things were a bit more complicated. They kept making announcements over the train loudspeakers, once in what sounded like German but the person talking had a lozenge in their mouth and kept skipping vowels (aka Danish) and then again in English. As it turned out, there was "a lack of power" along a certain part of the tracks, so we had to hop from metro to bus back to metro.

Sibling bonding while waiting on the metro.

Once we finally got to our destination, the four of us walked around downtown for a few hours. We checked out Nyhaven, Copenhagen's living room with lots of bistros, pubs and people sitting on patios under heaters, wrapped in blankets and sipping their Carlsbergs. 

Look at this cute Danish construction worker outfit I found!

We stopped by the Danish Museum of Art & Design, which features a whole slew of Danish as well as international crafts and design ranging from the 2000s to the 18th century. Apparently it has a complete database of every piece of furniture made in Denmark between 1900 and 2000 (that's a LOT of furniture). On display was a variety of architecture, posters, toys and lots and lots of chairs.

Now that's what I call a healthy stool sampling!

After our dip in Danish design, we headed over to what is quintessentially Copenhagen, the Little Mermaid statue. She may be 102 years old, but she doesn't look a day over twenty! She's also quite small, just over four feet, but definitely a solid attraction weighing in at 385 pounds. 

Kodak moment-- sibling snapshot!

Copenhagen is definitely off to a great start. Although I may be wearing my polka dot raincoat rather than bikini, I can tell this is going to be a memorable Spring Break.