Denmark

Copenhagen is somewhere I've wanted to visit for a little while. Danish design gets me every time. We had three days in the city which wasn't enough. We did some good wandering, I adored the Glyptotek and Nyhavn with all the coloured pitched roofs. The Botanic Gardens were great, somehow it was my first time in a big glass house---> it was a really big glass house, monster palms and ferns and banana trees. There were also some great orchid houses and succulent areas but sadly they were closed so I could only see a little portion of the splendour. There were lovely lakes and water lilies growing well so we had a small nap in the sun on a wooden dock that made its way onto the lake. 

Danish people are so friendly and warm. Some dear friends from Norway came a visiting which was really nice, they were staying in an apartment so we had a little dinner party and pretended to be locals [one of my favourite things is having small dinner parties in foreign countries-so far I've only had them in a couple of countries, but trying to have more]. 

Biking in Copehagen was great, the city {and country} could not be more flat and the bike lanes go right through the city. I wandered along the canals one evening and saw about 7 streets in a row with the most charming houses ever. They were an old slate grey brick version of the colourful houses that I think most people associate with Danish housing, terrace style. They all had tiny front gardens which were mostly wild and wonderful, cobbled narrow streets, small wooden forts for kids to play in built on the sidewalk and long picnic style park tables and benches outside lots of the houses. The tables were really sweetly placed between two houses which made me think/hope that the neighbours probably get together for meals/drinks every now and then and have little street parties. It made me really happy. 

We then went north to Aalborg to see some old friends who a Danish, lived in Australia for 20 years and moved back to Denmark about 15 years ago. They are such lovely family. We used to go on all sorts of adventure holidays with them when they lived in Australia and it was truly wonderful to see them again, look at funny old photos and talk about all the things you do with dear old friends. 

Along the way we stayed two nights in a tiny village of about 10 houses. The house we stayed in was one of those insanely lovely Scandinavian one room and a lofted bed type arrangements that tears at my heart strings. It was so simple and beautiful. One day I will stop hoarding things and I will live simply. It was a full moon when we were there and the wheat farms were striking as the sun set [slowest sunset ever] the wheat turned golden and the sky was deep flinty blue grey. It was kind of perfect. One farmer had also grown a little plot of dahlias.

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