Copenhagen (Part V): Mikkeller Bar

The Mikkeller Bar celebrated its 3rd birthday on the last day of our Copenhagen trip so we headed there after a detour to Christiania & camped out for the afternoon. I was pleasantly  surprised that the entire street had been closed for the bar, markets, street food & a brilliant Jazz band. I did my best at CBC by drinking all the sour beer in the joint so I switched back to cider for the Mikkeller Bar party. It was a great way to end our time in Copenhagen. They definitely know how to throw a street party, in a relaxed, fun kind of way. The best part: Watching a family carry their heavy outdoor table setting from their apartment, organise it on the street, eat dinner, have some drinks & carry it back home again. 

Everyone still in town from the festival was at the bar that afternoon. It's a strange feeling to be in another country & bump into people you know all over the place.

These guys played an epic 5 hour set. No time for cigarette breaks!

Quieting down in the evening

I love the tranquil spaces you glimpse behind buildings in Copenhagen. 

Enjoying the party

Edinburgh next. I'm already planning my next trip there!

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Copenhagen (Part IV): Blågårdsgade Festival

Our first morning in Copenhagen was spent in Norrebro at a brilliant cafe eating delicious breakfast, while there we noticed some posters for a festival happening in the area on Saturday. Ben was going to be at CBC all of saturday so I made plans to meet some friends & check out what was happening. It turned out to be a really lovely street festival with markets, drinks, bands & food. It was lovely to wander around and feel a bit summery. We even ate ice cream*.

Blågårdsgade Festival 2013

I do not know how she was doing that...

Markets 

Delicious breakfast cafe, before the festival 

The street on a regular day

*Okay, so I eat ice cream every week (at the best ice cream parlour ever) but this time it was definitely a weather based ice cream call. In the depths of a London winter it's just a taste bud call. 

Copenhagen (Part III): Mielcke & Hurtigkarl

I was lucky enough to be able to mooch into the Brewers dinner on the Friday night of our Copenhagen trip... One of the stranger places I've found myself, it was held at the restaurant Mielcke & Hurtigkarl. As always happens they forgot there would be two vegetarians at the dinner despite having let them know before hand! There were a lot of courses & everything was delicious but the best thing about the evening was seeing the room full of brewers drinking fancy wine & everyone navigating the cutlery situation. After dinner we moved over to another building where a metal band played (way too loudly), a dessert station was set up & an open bar was absolutely devastated - surprisingly the gin didn't last all that long!  We were sensible & left at about 2:30am as the festival started up again at 11am on Saturday & everyone had to work. Breakfast at the hotel the next morning was full of hungover faces and some people straggling in for food before finally making it to bed.  

Beautiful. Felt slightly like being at a wedding though...

Wine. A drink I can get behind!

So much salad

Dessert

This was by far the fanciest meal we had on our trip away, no falafel for us that night! 

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Copenhagen (Part II)

Despite the slightly cold weather the sunshine in Copenhagen was lovely & we made the most of it with a morning at the Botanic Gardens. 

The succulent greenhouse was closed!

Tropical weather & rusty stairs. Ben went up to the viewing platform, I decided to stay on the ground.

Magnolia

Ducks... because I love them.

Happy today everyone!

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Copenhagen (Part I)

From Berlin we hopped the overnight bus to Copenhagen, arriving a day before the Copenhagen Beer Celebration. Arriving at 6:30am & not being able to check into our hotel until 3pm meant we had a lot of time to kill in a slightly delirious/sleep deprived state so we did the sensible thing & headed out for breakfast. Danish Breakfast is awesome. Rye bread, fruit, cheese...what's not to like!

Our trip to Copenhagen came about because of the Copenhagen Beer Celebration that Ben had attended last year & was working at this time. A lot of the time was spent drinking beer/talking about beer/thinking about beer but we managed to see a lot of the city as well & I ventured out on my own quite a bit while Ben (& everyone we know from London) was at the festival.

The city itself is really beautiful. Clean, calm & obviously full of attractive Danes riding bicycles. The sun stayed out until 11pm some nights and in the 4 days we were there we encountered a surprising amount of street parties/festivals. In the warm weather I can imagine hanging about in Copenhagen & being quite happy but I don't think I would survive the darker winter months. Hopefully we will head back there sometime (probably for CBC next year!) so I can experience it without comparing it to Berlin, an unfair way to look at it all I think.

Here are some photographs from around the place...

Walking along the canal to Norrebro, my favourite part of Copenhagen

I just love them

So many markets in the city

Canal casualties

Cake, Fritz-limo, Sunshine. Perfect.

More of Copenhagen soon!

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