Laila in Copenhagen

so the time has come to leave CPH... i'm now sitting here in London where i started my trip, still in denial (i'm going home to Copenhagen in 2 weeks, right?) and already missing my friends/hot danes/CPH life. but despite this mild depression i have a lot to be happy about - it's been a great 6 months, filled with a LOT of great people and many many good times.

here are a few photos from my last week in Denmark. and what an fantastisk week it was. tusind tak and vi ses CPH!

classy microbrewery hangout at Mikkeller & Friends

making kimchi!

last onsdag snegl = ultimate devastation

arty light thing (?) for the start of the Copenhagen Green Capital celebrations

crazy danes + Lucy and Jack winter swimming in the harbour in -2 degree weather

chilling, literally, on the hipster bridge

half-frozen lakes

Australia Day sausage/vegemite/pavlova feast at 4am

snowy Frederiksberg yesterday

best....

quote: "get the lassie a pie you asshole!" - drunk pie man's friend at 3am on new year's day

building: hungarian parliament (google it)

meal: the strudel and zwetschkenknödel (plum dumplings) j + m cooked for us in their beautiful vienna apartment

bargain: a 3 course lunch for 1250 forint in budapest, approx. $6.80

cultural event: too hard! a four-way tie between listening to Handel's Messiah in the glasgow cathedral for free (thanks sneaky back door), edinburgh's hogmanay festival (torchlight procession, fireworks galore, street party for 60,000), the ceilidh fi and i joined in the scottish national museum, and our hungarian thermal bath experience with the budapest locals

nature: the cliffs of moher in SW ireland / just all of ireland

local stranger: our irish barman friend who put cordial in our beers (delicious) and played us irish music before mysteriously disappearing

an unfortunate start to the trip - making tuna sandwiches in liverpool en route to edinburgh

getting blown away on top of arthur's seat

edinburgh streets one sunny morning

Fi + hogmanay banner

nicholson street by night

bustle outside the city library

ireland! walking in the blarney castle grounds

irish sun + irish trees

cork has a ridiculous number of hairdressers. here's no. 5206

cliffs of moher (rain/wind/storms couldn't stop us!)

lucy + chen chen braving the weather

"grand!"

hostel street in dublin feat. our fave italian coffee shop/bar

doors. doors doors doors

amazing. but where's his fixie bike?

bog-standard viennese buildings, easily mistaken for palaces

outside the vienna applied arts university (v. angsty graffiti inside)

cool cat locals j + m showing us the hip 7th district

posters in the museum quartier

Kunst Haus Wien - Museum Hundertwasser

chimney cakes in budapest

hostel street

szimpla kert, one of budapest's ruin bars

wandering the streetz

lovely hungarian buildings

and more

towards the danube river

gals on castle hill

who are these nutcases

catch up time. have been away for 2.5 weeks and have not yet blogged about christmas! 

happily, xmas was a very danish affair - there were just 7 of us left here at signalhuset in our xmas jumpers, feasting on the 24th as per dansk tradition, eating far too much ris à l'amande (almond rice pudding with cherry sauce), drinking gløgg and being merry. hyggelige (cozy/fun) times!

next up, snaps from the past few weeks.....

studenterhuset the week before christmas

feasttttttt (and rice pudding)

oh, exchange life. no money. two months to go. if you feel like a laugh, check out our shiny new blog: 

now that semester is over people are starting to leave copenhagen for good...all the europeans and americans are heading home for christmas over the next week, plus one dear australian friend. (Laura don't go!) this makes me sad. 

i've already said goodbye to one person and yesterday witnessed an unsettlingly casual goodbye between two people in the lift:

"hey if i don't see you before you leave, merry christmas"

"yeah same to you it was great to meet you"

"aw you too catch ya later"

"ok bye"

1. head straight to the kantine after class. buy a delicious, chewy bread roll for 6kr. caution: do not get distracted by the snegle!

2. exit kantinen. go to kommunen cafe. fill up a paper cup to the brim with coffee. here the danish trust system abounds, so by all means put your full 4kr in the box. but if you are sly, and your moral standards allow it, definitely pay less.

3. claim your free biscuit. excellent.

hallo, kebab, cheap coffee, lost, pretzel, hostel frenchies, phoenix live, €0.88 breakfast, weird yoghurt, ein splitterbrötchen, hipsters, u-bahn, turkish market, canal, dodgy park, ramen, €3 wine + cake, deutsches historisches, radiator huddling, currywurst, nap, questionable monuments, wine bar #2, milka, aaah cold, battler tourists, mystery meat broth, danke schön, club mate, vague queasiness, east side, decaf, auf wiedersehen !