Side note!! I wrote this as a draft on 25th of August in 2017, delayed to post it, and then abandoned this blog for a while. My apologize.
Escaping in Copenhagen
I’m
probably going to say this about every “check list” destination to which I want
to go, so might as well start now. I can simply say that Copenhagen left me
breathless.
Most likely
that dreaming of visiting this city was always at the back of my mind. However,
somewhere during my freshman year it jumped to be on my top list. Maybe for the
simple reasons like “It’s too close not to visit”, and for sure due to the image which I saw when I closed my eyes and imagined myself standing in the Nyhavn
street, which I’m from now going to call “colorful houses”.
There is an
explanation, why I called this post an escape. After having to travel to Sweden
for 27 hours (long story of farry to germany instead of Sweden), I kind of
felt off balance. My thoughts were everywhere and I couldn’t easily shut it
off. However, the night before my trip to Copenhagen I told myself that this is
enough, I wasn’t going to ruin my journey by thinking about stuff which I can’t
change right now anyway. With this kind of mindset it became easy
to wake up the next morning at 5 a.m. and get ready for the train to Malmo,
which then took me to Denmark.
The escape
itself was delightful and not at all some type of challenge that I set out to
myself. The streets which I got to see while walking from the train station to
the place of “colorful houses” were amazing. Google Maps showed me that
the walk would take up to 25 minutes. Well… for me it was more like 40 minutes.
I didn’t get lost or anything, just took my time walking through those
streets, embracing the beauty of architecture, the positive vibe I got seeing
Danish people going to work (should I mention, that by the time I got to Copenhagen
it was around 8 o’clock), and the fact that there were more bicycles
than there were cars.
The 3 hours
I got to stay in Copenhagen let me to unwind better than the whole 10 days I had
off work. The capital of Denmark made me feel like this probably because it was one of the bigger things I wanted to do
during this summer. As August approached I thought that I’m not going to get an
opportunity to visit this beautiful city. How glad was I to find out
being wrong about this!
