Copenhagen - Day 2

Day 2 began with brunch at Canteen which was the culinary highlight of our trip. This little cafe was a little way off the main city district, on a road which I can only describe as a quiet version of Brunswick st. The food was nothing terribly exotic but just clean, fresh flavours that had been well put together. Of course, we didn't find this place ourselves - Smee's friend, a local took us here.

Mmmmm... brunch..

The next thing to tick off the tourist list was visit the Little Mermaid. She's a little statue which was built based on the fairytale by Denmark's own homeboy, Hans Christian Andersen.

We were firstly shown the fake mermaid:

She was built for the tourists disappointed at the size of the real mermaid. Hmmm, this one seems to have gone under the surgeon's knife. Those breasts look fake! Far too pert and more like a 1990's Pamela Anderson. Each knocker is bigger than my head.

Here's the real mermaid:

Yes, yes, much more natural breasts indeed. She's tiny.... and so innocuous looking. Not like those scary mermaids in Harry Potter.

Next we visited the little 'alternative' commune, Christiania. Like other Scandinavian cities, Copenhagen is renown for being clean, safe but a place of high taxes and high cost of living. It seems surprising yet almost inevitable that some residents rebelled, setting up shop on abandoned army barracks and deciding that they were a state independent of the EU. I didn't research properly and I expected Christiania to be a happy-happy, colourful hippie community. You know, like the hippies you see on TV. Well as much as TV is my best friend, unfortunately, he does tell big lies.

I was pretty excited to visit Christiania but once we reached our destination, there was a surge of apprehension which I had to beat it back with a stick. Damn middle class upbringing. Maybe being at the back, dodgy entrance didn't help!

Wandering through grounds. The various architecture. Smee enjoying it thus far.

No photos were allowed in 'Pusher' street. Yes. Pusher. As in the drug kind. Next to Pusher st was an area to light up your joints and other various substances, but mainly cannabis. If this was Amsterdam, I might've had a puff but it juuust wasn't quite the same atmosphere.

Here's the exit. Yep, that sign says "You are now entering the EU". Aaah, yes... the main entrance. Much less dodgy than the entrance we took!

A canal cruise was next on the agenda. We picked the next available boat and the one that looked least likely to sink. It went under a few bridges here and there, the major sites were pointed out.

All days in Copenhagen must include a sausage! Hot dog stands were conveniently located.

Hotdog 2 and Hotdog 3

Tomorrow - the leftover stuff!