Copenhagen, Europe's best kept secret!!

I love it here!!  Copenhagen is a very cool city, it has a certain vibe about it that is very relaxed in the sense of what is acceptable.  You are bound to see people doing some strange things but at the same time it is very open to individuality and self-expression, which I like.  I think that maybe it is because it is a small city and there are so many different type of people in it.  I love the buildings and statues here!  The red brick buildings with the tarnished, green copper accents really makes for a sight!!  Sometimes I find it hard choosing when to try to capture these buildings on my camera or to just take a mental picture because I just don't think that the pictures will do it justice but at the same time I want to share all that I am seeing with everyone.  But I highly recommend this city, it is so cool!  It is crazy on Saturday nights it comes alive and turns into a huge party!!  The last two Saturday nights I fell asleep to the city's buzzing sound.  It's cool, you can here live music, people talking, shouting and laughing.  You can really tell that people are out and about having a good time enjoying themselves!!  Then on Sunday the whole city sleeps, most things are closed and it is completely quiet. 

I had a great day with Sofie and her mom.  We went to the Cliffs of Mon and Liselund in Mon an island which is on the coast in the Southeast of Denmark.  Liselund was built for some woman named Lisa, hahaha!!  I can't remember the exact history other that Hans Christen Anderson would spend his summer holidays here and I read that the forests were an inspiration to a lot of his work which I can understand because it was completely magical, like a fairytale!  The gardens were built during the Romantic Era and is one of the first gardens to be built of it's kind in Denmark.  Absolutely beautiful!!  Now it is open to the public and lots of people picnic in the park and feed the ducks from the pond.  After we walked around there and had our picnic lunch we went to the Klint Mon (cliffs of mon- mon is sort of pronounced moon) which was just around the corner by car.  There was a long staircase down and the views down were absolutely incredible!!  The cliffs were white and are made up of seashell/creatures from something like 70 million years ago!  I have never seen anything like it in my life!!  Breathtaking white cliffs with the turquoise blue ocean as the backdrop, wow!!

Liselund Forest

Klint Mon

When I got back to Copenhagen on Saturday I spent the majority of the day walking around Stroge Street which is the longest pedestrian street in the world.  It is lined with shops from Prada to trinkets and filled with lots and lots of tourists!!  There are also lots of street performers and it is fun to hear the different music and just stop and enjoy it!  Then I met up with Eva and Peter and we went for a walk to try to take in the last of the sunny warmth the day had to offer.  We ended up in Christiana which was originally an abandoned military barracks that a group of hippies took over in the 60's/70's and sort of adopted their own "free city" with their own self-governing rules.  There are many funky buildings, lots of graffiti art and hash bars.  It was pretty cool to see something like this and it is pretty incredible that something like this exists.  There was a large wooden arbor that you walked through that said "Leaving the EU" when you entered.  It was definitely a place where "anything" goes but it was very chilled out and really felt like an area where people were allowed to come and just be themselves. 

Yesterday I hoofed it all around Copenhagen!!  I walked past Nyhavn (New Haven) which is a pretty little harbor that has many colorful 18th century buildings on both sides then went onto the Marble Church also called Frederick's Church which was cool and then even further to go see the Museum of the Danish Resistance.  The museum was closed but I walked around in the barracks and the bordering park-like areas that outlined the barracks.  Very nice!!

That's all for now!!