photo's (from top to bottom): Copenhagen at sunset, Christiania, Morgenstedet Vegetarian Kitchen, my dinner, Copenhagen from the round tower astronomical observatory.
In February I made a Scandinavian journey to Denmark and then to Iceland...
In February I made a Scandinavian journey to Denmark and then to Iceland...
Denmark is amazing. Beautiful natural landscape, happy beautiful people, and amazing organization and transportation. Oh yes, and it houses the wonderful city of Copenhagen. A clean, easy to navigate city, with amazing bicycle roads everywhere (people cycle everywhere, and no matter the weather) wonderful cafes everywhere and beautiful people everywhere, with most of them speaking English perfectly. I found that the people were generally well-mannered and friendly when you ask them for directions or make small talk at the grocery shop.
It also has Freetown Christiania. The 34 hectare 850 resident commune, originally a squated military area in the 70's smack in the centre of the city...
I went to a nice little organic restaurant inside Christiania village called Morgenstedet Vegetarian Kitchen. I had soup and salad. I was nice, but not anything fancy. It was nourishing, tasted fine, and was organic so I was not complaining! I think my meal was about 60 Kroner, which works out to about just under 8 Euro. Cheap for Danish standards!
Danes tend to eat out less, with restaurants being rather expensive, meaning there's a limited amount of vegetarian restaurants in the country. The vegetarian movement is far behind those in other European countries, so if you go out for a meal, you'll often have explain veganism in detail, in order to get a truly vegan meal. They tend to eat a lot of fish, cheese and meat so it's definitely not an easy country to be catered for..Vegetarian items are far from always readily available in supermarkets, but there are health food shops selling veg food (they tend to often sell meat items in them a lot too-weird), so check them out if you're craving some tofu or vegan chocolate milk.
More vegetarian restaurants in Copenhagen: Den Grønne Kælder (Pilestræde 48), Det Eksotiske Hjørne (Jagtvej 127 Nørrebro), Ambrosias Have (Nordre Fasanvej 230), Cafe N (Blågårdsgade 17).
Hooray you went to Christiania! That place is so great! It's such another world I really loved it.. cheap food too! There used to be another place like it for younger people.. like a big squat but they had those riots when it was stormed. All the guys were waiting for it for weeks apparently. We met some guys from Canada and America who had been in jail for rioting but hadn't actually been rioting and were trying to get the hell out of Denmark haha.. nice guys! Wanted to send them back to jail or something..woops.
ReplyDeleteCopenhagen's meant to be one of the most Atheist cities in the world (if not the most?? can't remember) and the people the happiest :) and they were so friendly if I remember right..
hooray!
This is Layla by the way :)
LAYLA!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the post. I don't think anyone actually reads my blog. Aww crap that sucks about those poor ol rioters!
Did you go to that amazing crust record store in Copenhagen? It's the best record shop I've been to.