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Me and Mrs Pilgrim have managed to arrange a couple of days in Copenhagen without the kids. Yippeee
On the basis that we can't spend the whole day in bed, what else should we doing? Any previous experience or local knowledge out there?
Bob
DrJ is the man for this one.
Do a search - if it’s possible - there have been a few threads on this over the last few years. Enjoy! It’s a grand town.
My only real experience relates to a pub crawl around the Nyhaven - it gets seriously blurry after a couple of hours, but we came home all present and correct (I think)
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Spent a week there, mostly just walked or biked around seeing the city, you can ride down to the little fishing village at Dragor, we also biked north up the coast. There are some cool little areas along it the coats , both north and south. Take lots of money, things are crazy expensive. There's lots of royal places if you're into that, we just walked around without going in. As you'll see below my interest was seeing the bike infrastructure. Also you can take the train to Malmo in about 30 minutes.
FWIW, my little write up, but bike focused https://www.transportation-planning.com/blog/euro-trip-2017-part-2-the-grey-bike-lanes-of-copenhagen-denmark
First of all, enjoy a little time off!
Go to Nyhavn for beer and tourists... be sure to visit Christiania to see the locals, they Can be quite entertaining.
Get a burger at the Gasoline Grill at Landemærket, they have been named as some of the best burgers in the world. Be sure to get there early, when they are out of meat, they close for the day. Very hipster, but seriously good and not too expensive.
walk along the harbour and see the little mermaid. The statue itself is quite underwhelming, but it is a nice walk. Your wide Will appreciate the outlet malls at Langelinie, too.
Visit Tivoli, if it is open.
Instead of shopping on Strøget, visit the smaller Streets parallel to the pedestrian Streets.
have a nice trip! 😃
Here's one of the recent threads:
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/copenhagen-what-to-do/
rs idea of cycling to Dragør is a good one - I only went by bus and it takes ages. (Nice write-up btw!!)
Good shout for Gasoline Grill - new since I lived there. Strøget is like any hight street, well, a rather nice one, but as you say, the parallel streets are nice, e.g. Kronprincessegade aka Copenhagen Catwalk 😉
Have a great time - I'm jealous !
I live in copenhagen now but all i do is work and sleep so I'm not the best guide!
Hire a bike and cycle around enjoying the blissful experience of cycling here and cars giving way to you, it makes riding a bike in the UK seem really insane and backwards afterwards. Also everyone is so beautiful here you'll feel terribly depressed when you return to the UK.
The only eating tip I have been given is to go to the restaurants set up by ex Noma chefs for that super high level of food without the wait.
Apart from that just make sure you close your eyes when you pay for things and when you look at your Mastercard afterwards.
Wear warm clothing as it can be " Baltic" as we found out in early November, museum is good and the buildings pretty amazing. A walk around the city is good for 3hrs with a donation to the host, very informative she was, sneaked in then straight back out again from Wagamama to Tivoli gardens it was naff, a wee trip to Malmo over the bridge by train but then need Swedish currency
Pizza at BÆST in Nørrebro would be my recommendation. Amazing. And lots of pastries.
My parents went to Malmo so they could go over the Oresund Bridge.
My parents went to Malmo so they could go over the Oresund Bridge.
Mine want to drive from the UK so they can go over it. I've not watched the bridge but it must be pretty good!
The Bridge is excellent. Not sure about Series 2 though.
They also said something about wandering round Christiana?
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Vor Frelsers Kirke / Church of our saviour if you've got a head for heights. It's the tallest thing around and you climb up a narrowing spiral staircase on the outside of the spire.
If you're interested in good design have a walk around Illums Boligus: https://www.illumsbolighus.com/ I seem to remember finding a rather stylish cafe on the top floor.
Take the Metro out to Femoren and walk to the beach for a distant view of the bridge.
A few hours sampling Mikkeler beers at their pub is worth a shot. Such a great city. Really want to go back and give it another shot sometime.
feel inferior to the natives
Was out there last month, great city to explore, a few suggestions below:
Bars:
Brus - https://tapperietbrus.dk/ great food and beer
the various Mikkeller bars are good - the one on Viktoriagade is nice, Mikkeller Baghaven is great up at Refshaleoen (also see below for food)
Fermentoren - http://fermentoren.com/
Food:
Pizza at Mother in the meatpacking district
Brus
Loads of options at the Reffen street food market in the Refshaleoen area- https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/reffen-copenhagen-street-food-gdk1101719
Baest as above is supposed to be excellent
To do:
Can recommend going up the round tower - https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/round-tower-gdk410741
Hire a bike and cycle about.
You can also get travel passes that mean you can jump on buses, water boats etc which was handy
Pizza at Mother in the meatpacking district
This is recommended in most tourist guides but I actually found the Pizza to be average and nothing special. It's worth a visit though, it had a good atmosphere and nice beer on. Think it does cocktails too.
There is great food everywhere. Just how much money do you want to spend? We went a bit crazy and visited a Michelin starred Thai restaurant http://www.kiin.dk/. This was full on Michelin star stuff with dry ice and things melting when sauce poured on etc. We also went to Høst, which is very good, local food. https://cofoco.dk/en/restaurants/hoest/. The credit card took a hammering!
Had lunch here after the Lego store - https://www.tight-cph.com/ Stayed near one of these https://lagkagehuset.dk/, good for pastries, cakes and lunch.
There's a really good food court at Paper Island - PapirØen. This appears to be closed now though.
Christiana is worth a visit, a local does a tour at 3pm daily I think. Check out the cargo bikes and the iron monger/forge.
We skipped visiting the Mermaid statue as it's apparently not worth going out of your way for.
The Rundetårn ( https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/round-tower-gdk410741) has good views and if you're there visit Plint for some Danish design homeware at reasonable prices. https://plint.dk/
BBQ and Mikkelers beer in the meatpacking area (kodbyen) at Warpigs is a good alternative to pizza 🙂
Better to see the mermaid from a boat. The canal tours go past.
The canal tours may seem appallingly touristy but they are actually a good way to see a lot of stuff in a short time with no effort 🙂
Plenty of layers for the canal tour, pretty chilly. Good intro to where everything is and included in the visit card. Went north to the Maritime museum, rather liked that. There is a Tommy's burger place too on the industrial side of the main station. Good coffee and cinnamon buns everywhere. I liked the design museum too, wife less so, mostly chairs.
Glyptotek museum was a nice space / building if you like marble statues. Youngest lad described it as a bit too "penisy" 🙂
Sogreni bike shop and Pedersen shop in Christiania are worth a peep if you are passing.
We had a private bike focused tour with Cycling Copenhagen which was good for getting bearings. Think we did double the normal tour distance.....
City pass was expensive but useful - museums, buses, trains (over a big area out of city), subway, boat tour etc.
Thank you all for taking the time to respond. I might actually appear organised for a change
Bob
WARPIGS - Meat and beer
Tivoli is pretty at night
Some seriously good coffee places too they like there jo.
The free walking tours are great, especially if you do one on your first day. We do in pretty much every city we visit. Tivoli in the evenings is magical.