Denmark Denoument

On a canal tour my last morning in Copenhagen

I have to admit, it was hard traveling all on my ownsome while in Denmark. That said, Copenhagen is a really beautiful city and I'm very glad I decided to visit it, even if I had no one to do it with me.

On my last morning in CPH, I took a canal ride with Madeleine, and a girl named Mai-u who had checked in during the night, on a spur-of-the-moment weekend trip from her studies in Stockholm.

It was pretty darn cold, but the sun was out. A lot of tour books (including the one I had with me) suggest taking a canal tour at the beginning of your stay in order to get your bearings and get an idea of how the city works. I have to say, I rather enjoyed doing it the other way around. It was nice to wrap up my trip by seeing buildings and areas that I'd already visited from a different perspective. It was neat to have a sense of where we were as we weaved in and out of the city's canal, and to be able to clue in to "ohhh", having walked there earlier on.

The one new sight I got from the tour was the "Black Diamond", an extension of the royal library. Our tour guide explained that the building has a bit of controversy attached to it, as on Copenhagen's misty grey days, it doesn't do what it's "supposed to do". As our day was sunny though, we saw the building in its full splendor. As we approached, it looked almost like the front of the Diamond was alive, morphing around like mercury or las. The black reflective front was picking up the sunlight on the water and spitting the image back at us and it was pretty amazing. Clearly, days like my last in Copenhagen were the kind the designer had in mind.

We went under a bunch of low bridges, one of which has a cute little story tied to it. Apparently if you kiss while going under that particular bridge, your love will last forever. Totally appealed to a hopeless romantic like me. Too bad I had no one to kiss!!

Our tour lasted about an hour. It reminded me just how much I love being on the water. Kind of made me miss the cottage, oddly enough!!!

When we pulled back in to Nyhavn the other girls headed back to the hostel to grab more layers (I tried to warn them about the cold, honestly I did) and I headed to the airport.

Nyhavn.  Beauty.

I got there early, on purpose, to get my Starbucks on. This could be wrong, but according to my store-finder app, the Starby's at the airport is the only one in all of Denmark. Shocking!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed my white mocha, caught up on some journaling, and then unfortunately had to spend a lot more time than planned sitting around doing nothing. My flight was delayed by about 45 mins, and then with the trains and metro connections on the other end, I got to Lisa's flat at around 9pm. We had salmon and a yummy salad for bed, and as we were both now in full-blown cold mode had a chill night of watching old episodes of HIMYM.

Funny how Amsterdam felt like home. But with my bestie there- not so funny after all.