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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!