Copenhagen, Denmark (2007)

Copenhagen was back down to normal price levels, and the drinking and partying subsequently increased. Still, we often found ourselves trapped in tourist hell looking for a normal restaurant and a decent hostel.

Just outside of Copenhagen are windmills planted in the sea. Eerie and beautiful, also smart.

Here we enjoy a couple pints of Carlsberg, which is from Copenhagen. I actually don’t like Carlsberg and still didn’t like it after the pint.

After much lamenting about the crappiness of Carlsberg, the company lost some self-esteem and changed their building advertisement from “Best Beer in the World.”

Street with amazingly no tourists.

Quiet enough for me to even do a handstand.

This waterwalk had ridiculously priced meals with even worse service. We sat down for a bit, stole the food off someone else’s plate, then left.

After much searching we found a kabob place.

We hooked up our laptops to the TV at our hostel so that all could watch the Daily Show. They even had a bit on how rich people were complaining about the sea windmills.

The bikes clogged the streets of Copenhagen.

This was a failed attempt to photograph the guy in yellow, who had a big beer can in his bike water bottle holder.

Mwaha, I caught Sarang off-guard as a spokesman for the shop behind him. Their slogan is actually, “Linking people to people.”

Another well-angled shot.

This was supposedly one of the most beautiful gardens in all of Copenhagen. Uh yeah.

A completely different park now, Churchill Park was actually very nice.

Scenic shot at Churchill Park.

Big dome Church.

Changing of the guards.

Some great Danish food finally. Open faced sandwiches with smoked lamb, meatballs and herring.

Drinking Akavit, the liquor of Scandinavia.

We watched this crazy guy retrieve a bag that had fallen into the water.

Our last stop was Christiania, which is Berkeley-esque in that it is a super hippy compound.

Tour guide with tourists.

Black goth was de rigueur.

Banana-house.