Being a Tourist is Exhausting

Another blog post so soon, I must either have a lot more time or just don’t want to do my work.

As my time to Denmark comes a quickening halt, I decided it was time to be a tourist again in Copenhagen. So what do you do when you haven’t really explored the city you've lived in for about 3 months now? Make a Google document with everything you want to do and just add as many people to it as possible and hopefully someone will do one of the things with you.

The first day of my tourist journey began on Wednesday April 25^th with two friends: Claire and Jake. We began the morning by meeting at the train station and walking towards the Little Mermaid. As soon as we got there, it was inevitable to us that tourist season had started. A huge group of about 30 tourists were standing around taking pictures of the Little Mermaid. After getting a picture of the Little Mermaid, we kept walking and found ourselves in Katellet which is a star shaped fortress that has been well kept. We walked around this fortress and once we walked around it, we went to go take the harbor bus. This is essentially what you might be thinking of right now: a water bus. 

I should also mention here that one of the great things about Copenhagen is that their public transportation passes can be used for ALL of their public transportation unlike some cities I’ve been too, aka Venice. We got off this harbor bus at Nyhavn which is where you can find the postcard picture view that is seen of Copenhagen.

Our second to last stop was the Round 

Tower where you can pay 25 Danish Kroner to go up and get a “high” view of the city. On the way up, you will pass a museum which has different exhibitions and this months was of Syrian art portraying the current situation in Syria. It was very powerful. So a ways further, you will pass one of the two bathrooms of the tower and after that you continue your journey up this round spiral and eventually find your way on the top. 

Once up here, you realize that it actually isn’t as high as it looks. Going down the tower is similar to going up because you feel as though you are just walking in place since you are going down a non-stair cased path. I didn’t like feeling as if I’d walked nowhere -__-

After the round tower, we went to the glass market. The glass market is a type of farmers market but it’s pretty expensive. You will find people who sell cakes, cupcakes, fruit, wine and pastries there. It’s a fun place to go see and you can walk through it in about 10 minutes or so (and that’s at a small pace); it’s not very big.

Once we were done with the glass market, I went home, and decided to go for a run with a neighbor’s dog whose name is Buller. Buller is an older dog and running with her was fun but frustrating. It was fun because I got to run with a dog, it was frustrating because Buller would go slower than what I wanted to run so I had to slow down my pace tremendously. But it was definitely worth it and I would run with Buller again.