satisfying my inner ship geek

i've been in copenhagen for a few wonderful days. i was working with some of the most creative people in denmark and i get to keep doing so! what more could a girl ask? a little walk along the quayside at nordhavn. i encountered this rather rusty barge and remembered all the beauty of rusty metal. in all, a very wonderful few days. 

occasionally (not often enough), when i feel down, i visit the daily delights on darrel bristow bovey's website. they make me want to price tickets to athens and get my ass down there. i especially loved the one from february 5. i wanted athens to be my favorite capital city all of a sudden. i've been there once and enjoyed it, but i'm not sure it's my favorite capital city. that's probably copenhagen, which seems a bit lame, given that i actually live in the country of which it's a capital. 

but copenhagen really is wonderful. it's colorful, walkable, beautiful. there are art museums, history museums, design museums, the oldest amusement park in the world, the #1 restaurant in the world, the best burger joint ever (gasoline grill)...i could go on. 

i was gobsmacked yesterday when someone i know, who is danish, said she hadn't been in copenhagen since 2016 and had, in fact, only been there 4-5 times in her whole life. i expressed surprise, perhaps too vehemently, and she got a little offended and said, "what would i need there? it's expensive," which is admittedly, true. but still. it's wonderful. though i didn't mean to offend her. i just can't understand that anyone wouldn't appreciate copenhagen. 

before i changed jobs, i was going more or less once a week. and i'm definitely suffering from withdrawal. that must mean it's my favorite capital city. 

100 happy days :: day 73

experiencing simple, exciting food in a restaurant.

copenhagen is cool

as i sat in the wonderful torvehallerne with a book and a glass of wine one late afternoon last week, lazily reading, but mostly watching people and scrawling notes in uPad on my iPad mini (thanks moneek!), it hit me that copenhagen really has come a long way in the 16 years since i first visited. then, it struck me as a quasi-eastern european backwater and now it's been transformed into monocle magazine's most liveable city. it's hip, it's comfortable in its own skin, it's happening, but still small enough to be charming rather than intimidating. i'm way more in love with it now than i ever was then. then, it was a good thing i was in love with the boy, or i'd never have stayed. now, i wonder a little bit why we moved out to the countryside. copenhagen today has a pulse and a vibrancy you can feel as you walk down the streets (or even just sit and sip a glass of cold white wine and watch the people go by). but maybe the reason i feel it is because i don't live in the midst of it every day. and man, do i appreciate it when i am there.

it's my birthday and i'll go to copenhagen if i want to

i don't have any deep thoughts about my birthday. it's my 46th, so i'm getting pretty good at them by now. what's funny is that when you reach these middle years, you lose track of your own age. i've thought for months that i was already 46 and when husband's eldest daughter recently pointed out to me that i was turning 46, i realized that she was right. i guess it won't be much of a shock since i already thought i was there for pretty much the whole past year.

i'm celebrating with a little trip to copenhagen. lunch with a good friend (who i'm making come along for the ride), a bit of poking around in art supply shops, a visit to my favorite tea shop and undoubtedly a little workout for my camera. at 46, that sounds like the perfect birthday.

happy weekend, one and all.

window shopping in copenhagen - part 4

and the last installment of my window shopping in copenhagen. this time, the clothing-related ones.

i do rather wish my reflection hadn't been visible in these.

window shopping in copenhagen - part 3

more windows from our wander around copenhagen on the big prayer day. tho' i love living in the country, sometimes you just need a fix of the city.

oh, and by the way, about the big prayer day. it's one of the many spring holidays in denmark. king christian IV got fed up with all of the little prayer days back in the 17th century and rolled them all into one big prayer day - storebededag - the big prayer day. so you could get all your prayers done in one go. the current government, whose Big Plan to Save the Danish Welfare State is for everyone to work 12 minutes more a day, wants to do away with it.

window shopping in copenhagen - part 2

more window treatments from my afternoon in copenhagen on the big prayer day. luckily for my wallet, everything was closed.

window shopping in copenhagen - part 1

it was the big prayer day, so everything was closed. that was undoubtedly for the best. but i couldn't resist a bit of window shopping in wonderful copenhagen.