A Weekend of Danes and Swedes

I should really change the title of my blog to "Copenhagen is the greatest place on Earth"... because it's true. Having now been to ten different countries in my life, I think Denmark might be my favorite. (Sorry Italy!) Here's a summary of my past few days, and maybe you'll see why:

Duck

FRIDAY: I had my first class. It was good. School is school. But afterwards a bunch of us went to the Glass Market for lunch and it was amazing! We tried samples of cheeses, breads, meats, and tea, among other things, and I had a duck sandwich for lunch. Yes. Duck. Delicious. And on Friday night my floor went out and had a blast together! Great start to my weekend.

Swedish seafood

SATURDAY: Two floormates and I took a day trip to Malmo, Sweden. Malmo is a coastal town just 30 minutes away by train from Copenhagen, and it was a great day for it. After arriving, we went on a 45-minute wild goose chase for a restaurant we heard was great, ending in us finally finding the restaurant and seeing that it was closed. So we walked back into town and had delicious seafood outside at a little cafe - win-win since we still got good food and also got our daily dose of cardio. We shopped around Malmo, which is apparently where all the Danes go to shop because the Swedish exchange rate is better, so everything was a tad cheaper there than in Denmark. One more country off my checklist!

Rainy day in Copetown

SUNDAY: Rain rain rain. Seems to be something Copenhagen likes to do often. Unfortunately. Despite the rain, a few of us decided to walk to the National Museum of Denmark, which was FREE (my new favorite word). After, we looked for the Royal Library, which was sadly closed, but ended up wandering around the city and taking some great pictures. Even the rain couldn't stop us from having fun.

Little Mermaid

MONDAY: Weather forecast said rain all day, and yet there wasn't a cloud in the sky today. After class, we went to the amazing sandwich shop Smagsloget and finally got sandwiches, which were in fact amazing! So happy. We strolled into the Rosenborg gardens and ate our sandwiches, then continued our walk down to Kastellet, an old military barrack area with streams and green grass and old cannons and a church and ducks and so much beautiful nature. 70% chance of thunderstorms my butt, it was perfectly sunny! We moseyed on over to the Little Mermaid statue, which is known for being a huge tourist attraction but also very anticlimactic, and it was just that. But we had to take a picture of it and say that we saw it, of course. After a lovely (and hot!) walk back to the dorm, we took our books and class work out to the Rosenborg gardens once more and laid in the grass, soaking in the beautiful weather and a little bit of academics, too.

Kastellet

All in all, it's been a fabulous weekend, and I have so many more things I want to see and do! Copenhagen, you treat me too well.