Copenhagen Day Two - Part 2

Today I've written about the second half of my second day in Copenhagen. See the first day and the first half of day two in my previous posts.

So after filling up on burritos at Paper Island, we decided that it would be a good idea to climb a huge church tower. We'd passed the Church of our Saviour on the way to get food and decided it would be great to go up. Matt isn't too good with heights but he is getting better and at least trying, so he said he wanted to go up the Spire. However, when we got the mid-level, after climbing up very steep and eerie stairs, we discovered it was a very small area and also slightly levelled down towards the railing, i.e it felt like you had to go towards the rails. Matt didn't feel comfortable there so he decided to go down whilst I made the silly decision to go on further up.

Now it doesn't look too far on the image below, but let me tell you it was very scary. Going up spiral stairs around the central spire was crazy and then more so was that the railings felt so open. The whole time I felt like I was going to fall back and as you got higher the stairs got ever so smaller in width. When I was almost at the top there was a cluster of people waiting to reach the summit. At this point, I had to sit down and grab on to the railings I was so scared! I got so far up that the stairs were only big enough for one person, stayed there for a minute for pictures then descended down. It was great to say I did it, but oh so scary!

Next up, when we were safely on the ground, we went on the long walk to see the Little Mermaid. Gifted to Copenhagen by a brewery owner, the Little Mermaid sits on a cluster of rocks around 20/30 minutes from the town centre. She is much smaller than you'd expect but oh so elegant and worth a visit.

After our big day of walking, we headed back to the hotel to get showered and ready for tea. After checking the Visit Copenhagen website we decided to go to one of the top 10 places they'd listed for steak in the city. The restaurant we went to was called MASH and they served a whole host of different types of beef steak with varying prices. Matt went for the Danish 90-day aged rib eye, whilst I went for a Danish tenderloin which was an eye-watering £40, but hey, we were on our jollies! We got a portion of chips, macaroni cheese, Bearnaise and peppercorn sauce to accompany our meat.

The food was gorgeous and the service was brilliant.  The waitress even offered to show us the pieces of meat to help us decide but we declined. We were very happy with our choices when they came. We went to eat around 9.30pm and they were very accommodating as they didn't close till 11pm which was great for us dilly dalliers. After all that food we walked back to our hotel and got some sleep ready for our next big day!

Copenhagen Day Two - Part 1

Day two was our first full day in Copenhagen and it was a busy one. I think we just tried to fit so much into our day so we wouldn't miss anything. This just meant that we walked so much and then the next we were a little stumped as to where we hadn't been...
We decided against a sit-down breakfast, instead, we picked up a pastry from 7-Eleven (mine was a cinnamon bun) and started walking. We saw some gorgeous and interesting places on our travels such as the town hall, a Hans Christian Anderson statue and the lego store which had the Nyvarn built from lego! Walking around Copenhagen is stunning, all the buildings are so grand, well kept and colourful. It's hard to feel unhappy walking around the city.

On our travels, we came across the Round Tower which Matt had wanted to go up since seeing it on the Visit Copenhagen site, which is very handy by the way. The cost to get in is 25krone which is around £2.50 (just divide everything by 10 and you'll get it there or thereabouts). You walk up the tower in a spiral eventually getting higher until you reach the summit. On the way up there are two stops, one is a gallery and a shop, then next is the loft area of the attached church which holds some historic pieces. At the top, you have a 360-degree view with enough space to step back if you are a little scared of heights.

All this walking and climbing had made us a hungry bunch. However we weren't about to stop at the next food joint we saw, oh no, we decided to walk around 30 minutes to the other side of town to find Copenhagen's street food - Papirøen (Paper Island). It was a bit inconspicuous to find and at times we thought we might be kidnapped but in the end, we found it and I felt right at home in the industrial setting by the quayside.

It was in a huge warehouse with seating outside and many trucks, containers (converted to stalls) and bars lining the inside filled with food vendors. We had a good look round at all of our options finally deciding on burritos. I went for chicken and Matt went for pork but when we got them we had no clue who's was who's so quite frankly I'm not sure what I ate but it tasted good! We went pretty early in the day so not all stalls were open, I think it comes alive at night. I'd definitely recommend it if you can stomach the walkover as it is lovely fresh food in a chilled atmosphere.

After we fuelled up we got back on our feet again and started walking. You'll have to wait until the next post to see where we went for the rest of day two!

Copenhagen - Day one - travel

As you will know if you follow my twitter or Instagram, I recently went on a city break to Copenhagen for a few days with my boyfriend. It was a gorgeous city with much to see and do. I wanted to write up a little diary of my days there so thought I'd split this up into a few posts. First up, day one, the day we arrived and got to grips with Denmark.

We flew with EasyJet from Manchester which was super easy and no hassle at all. The flight was only an hour and a half so we touched down in no time! Instead of getting a taxi we decided we'd figure out the trains which were actually so simple as they'd put a short cut on the machines to get a ticket to central station. Easy peasy! The train took around 10 minutes so we were ready to scout out our hotel in no time.
Our hotel (First Hotel Mayfair) was very close to central station and pretty close to the rest of town including Tivoli Gardens. It was super stylish and very posh, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone considering the trip. After we'd dropped our bags and freshened up we went to explore.
Starving from having only had our breakfast at Manchester Airport, we set out to find somewhere to eat. We picked the first good place we saw which happened to be MAD (Modern American Diner), Copenhagen's very own American Diner. Except it doesn't look like the American diner's I know you are thinking of - red booths, cheesy music and chirpy Americans serving food. It was much slicker with an orange colour scheme, clean interior and great service. With my new found love of bacon, I decided to go for the smoked bacon and cheeseburger, whilst Matt went for the Philly cheesesteak sandwich and we shared sweet potato fries. And oh what fries they were. We both agreed that they were the best sweet potato fries we had ever tasted. Seriously you need to go just for these. It was gorgeous food which had us all fired up for a walk into the centre to do some shopping. We came across all the usual tourist shops, takeaway food joints but then we also found many clothes shops. Some were pretty naff but one that I particularly fell in love with was Monki.
It is the sister brand of Cheap Monday, which you might have heard of as they are stocked in Urban Outfitters, which is also a Scandanavian brand. Their clothes were very simple but had gorgeous autumn colours and great comfy fabrics. I tried on a few things but nothing felt right until I spotted a gorgeous oversized green coat. I was pretty much in love and had to buy it right away. It cost around £50 which I think is average for a coat in England so it wasn't much more expensive than people think. As we went for our walk we spotted Nyhavn, a gorgeous waterfront street surrounded by amazing coloured houses. It was so pretty and scenic - lots of pictures were taken! We also stumbled on my new favourite convenience store, 7-Eleven. You may have seen or heard of 7-Eleven before in relation to America, I certainly had. I didn't, however, realise how amazing they were going to be. They had slushie machines (one with Cocio), fresh pastries, healthy food and drinks like smoothies and juices and a whole bunch of other sweets and snacks. I just loved it. The variety of stuff was amazing and I eventually got a Cocio slushie which was like a super cold milkshake. Mmmm.
We went to bed pretty early because we'd woken so early to drive to Manchester to get our flight. Day two was the day of lots of attractions so it will be split into two posts...