Thursday, I picked James up from the airport and took him back to my place for him to drop off his belongings. While at the airport, there were so many reunions of what looked like Danish kids coming home from abroad and it was so cute. Also, the DIS Summer program is starting up and I think I saw some very confused Americans walking around arrivals- funny to think that was me but totally understood what they were going through. James pretty much wanted to start his day. He met Beril in my room and it was so cute because Beril had baklava waiting for us. So fresh and the pistachio was ridiculous. I borrowed a bike from a guy in KK so we were able to bike everywhere in Cope. I took him to the teepee place in Norrebro and got some moroccan chicken and a beer (also I beat him in chess, sooo). Then we got some coffee and went to a record store where we proceeded to spend the next hour and a half. We also checked out superkilen park before this. After James dropped some kroner at the store, I biked him to dronning louise bridge because it was so gorgeous out. We then went back to my place, grabbed his belongings, dropped him off at the airbnb where he slept for a little bit. For dinner, we went to Kebabistan (best country on the world- the falafel was amazing) and then went to Jolene, a really fun european bar that was celebrating its 9th bday that weekend. We spent the night there and it was so incredible to watch James know every song even though it was some ubiquitous disco song from the 70s.
Friday, Katie and I met up with James and went to Wuulf and Konstali, a brunch place in Amagerbro. Although I thought nothing could beat Mad and Kaffe, this place did. Another platter place, it was amazing and in a really cute area (also the weather was amazing). We then went back, grabbed our bikes, and did the typical touristy things like see Nyhaven, Amelianborg, etc. Afterwards, we chilled in Rosenberg park and he took out his synthesizer (of course). We then walked to Round Tower for a great view of hte city and biked to Christiania and biked around the lake which was so jungle-y and buggy but really pretty. We then went to paper island for dinner where I got the bimbimbap, James got the moroccan chicken and a creme brulee donut. It was so beautiful with the sun setting over the canal, definitely one of my fav. spots in Copenhagen. We then biked to Jolene afterwards and spent another evening there. It's so funny watching the Danes dance because they absolutely do not care what they look like and just take on the dancefloor. I hope to be like that one day. I also got stuck in a dance circle of like 50 yr old moms who were killing it. so that was fun.
On Saturday, James and I planned his trip to Hamburg and Amsterdam and then took the train to Lousianna Art Museum which had some really cool exhibits. I think Lousianna has become one of my fav museums because the artists use art to express themselves and their thoughts in really innovative and unique ways. My favorite exhibit was William Kentridge- the dude did so much and his art was actually pretty humorous. We then continued to take the train to Helsingor for the Click Festival. This is also where Hamlet's Castle is and we strolled around it for a little bit. We ended up getting amazing fish n chips. The festival was really interesting and in this cool venue called the culture yard. There was this weird demonstration/show about vaginas and I'm not really sure what the message was but it was pretty creepy with weird toys and chairs and music. The music festival itself was alright, very industrial and rave like, it was kind of hard for me to enjoy it because I just don't know how to dance to this music. There was also one show with these dancers wearing weird, animal like masks. It was cool, my first rave, can't say I want to do it again. We then proceeded to head home with a quick pit stop where James got food at Falafel Factory.
On Sunday, We went to the street market festival in meatpacking. We hung out there for a while nad watched this outdoor street soccer game which was impressive because it was a small arena and the guys were pretty good at keeping the ball inbouds and not hitting the audience. I had this interesting spanish sandwich with a ton of different meats. We then biked to Nyhaven and went on a canal tour. This was such a fun bike ride because we went from meat packing, up the canal, past the black diamond library, and up along the standard and the canal. It was just so beautiful out and made me love Copenhagen even more. After the canal tour, we got some orange wine at Den Vandrette, where my mom and I went when she was in town. The wine was different than what we tried but interesting because it was pretty acidic for a wine. I'm really interested by orange wine. We then biked to Mikkeller and got beer (lol- we were kinda tipsy at this point). We enjoyed the beer and some amazing cheese while chilling next to the canal and watching the sunset over Copenhagen. We then went back to paper island for dinner (my first repeat of the semester1 got the happy burger with plantain chips). We also split a chocolate crepe which was just madness. We then went to Bastard Cafe where I lost to him in chess (So sad) and ended our night there.
On Monday, we woke up and went to glass market so James could experience it all. I unfortunately had some nasty tacos with chips but James had the ultimate Danish experience with smorrebrod and a cream snegl and coffee collective and black licorice. We then grabbed his stuff and dropped him off at his bus to Hamburg.
I had a flight to catch later that night and a couple of friends to say bye to who were heading back to the states. I got my life in order and said bye to Noa and Meg before leaving for the airport with Shane and Kim to go to Porto!
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