Day 1- Coping in Copenhagen

Welcome to our travel blog, thanks for following along on our trip with us.

We arrived at 5:45am in Copenhagen from Sydney, thankfully we slept quite well on the plane, unfortunately we were done sleeping at about 2am Copenhagen time so it was a challenge to stay awake. Neither of us having been to Copenhagen before, we fell in love with the city despite our bleary eyes.

Sights of the day

• First stop- our Airbnb, staying in the Old Town of Copenhagen with a mother and her daughter, pretty nice place and excellent location. Got to have a early check in and shower before heading off.
• Quick stop at the shops to get a winter coat for Kirsten
• We got a ‘Copenhagen card’ which includes lots of the attractions and all transport. Headed to find Christianborg Castle, on the way got caught up in wind and a bit of snow! Beautiful but a bit chilly. Castle was interesting, has been burnt down twice.
• Looking for somewhere to eat and sit our sandwiches out of the rain/ snow we walked past the canal tour (included on our card) so we jumped on and had an hour around the canals. Our guide was a historian with a dry sense of humour.
• Popped in at the Guinness Book of World Records museum. Kirsten gave it a 4/10 (run down, sometimes disturbing and not up to date), Nathan a respectable 6/10 (enjoyed trying to beat some of the records).
• A walk around the Harbour of Nyhavn with beautiful Christmas markets and coloured buildings. Grabbed a casual 4:30pm dinner (in our defence it does get dark at 4pm!) and went to bed at a respectable 7:14pm.

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Eats of the day

• Delicious bakery rye bread (they really know their breads) for brekky with a traditional Danish ‘Flodebolle’, choc coated marshmallow with a cake bottom layer for breakfast dessert. We give it an 8.5 out of 10- pretty but still tasty.
• Nutella and Banana crepe from a Christmas market stall playing Hillsong music. Europe= Nutella and banana crepes in our minds.

Highlight of the day

Every building is beautiful here, love the architecture and style. We enjoyed seeing everything lit up and super Christmassy.

What we learnt today

• One layer of pants is not enough! More layers needed tomorrow.
• Denmark has the longest reigning succession of monarchs in the world and they are very proud of it.