a quick trip to copenhagen...

With a few days in between my return from Austria and my departure for Copenhagen, I decided to maximise every minute by catching up with as many friendly London faces as I possibly could! It was a whirlwind couple of days, but getting some one on one time with family and friends was amazing, and left me feeling fulfilled and full of good vibes...

As if things couldn't get any better, we were soon touching down in CPH, a place I've had a city crush on since a spontaneous visit in 2012... We stayed with friends Scott and Sophia (two of the hardest working food and wine frothers known to man!) in their apartment in Norrebro, and were treated to a tour of some of the city's nicest nooks for eating and drinking... The vibe in CPH is certainly infectious and it seems to have all the right things going for it... But at the end of the day it's the people who make a place... Huge thanks to Scott, Sophia, Adam, Rikke and the friends we made along the way for making the holiday part of our holiday so awesome... Big love xxoo

 Ready for takeoff, touchdown and taxi...

 #cloudporn

 Bike line fever in the HCA cemetery...

Puddle jumpers...

 Ticking tourist boxes... 

 Botanical beauty...

 With bounce!

 Cliche Nyhavn harbour...

So colourful!  

 Probably the most cycle friendly city on the planet...

 Wet line fever near Christiania...

 Football fever... 

 Chef Chancellor @AMASS

 Gardener Chancellor in the AMASS gardens...

 More fever of the white line kind...

 Cute Danish, i mean Cornish, women everywhere!

Ballin! 

copenhagen detour... part three

My final day in CPH turned out to be an absolute cracker on the weather front. We'd already decided to check out Faelledparken (now Scotty's "local" park) and went past his mate James' place to try and get a session going (cheers for the board borrow James!) 

The park itself exceded all my expectations and i had an absolute ball, despite my generally lacklustre skills on the plank... The bowl/giant snake run has to be seen/ridden to be believed and there's just about every kind of feature you could ever imagine, all layed out in super smooth concrete... 

As if the day couldn't get any better, who rocks up for a session but none other than Danish legend, Rune Glifberg. One of the most stylish transition skaters of all time, with barely a warm up run, he proceeded to destroy the place. Speeding around it like it wan't no thing, boosting huge frontside ollies and airs, and attacking the (just plain scary) over vert with fs 5-0s, fs tails and bs smiths... 

More coincidental awesomeness that made this detour unforgettable!

As a fitting finish to the afternoon, Scotty, James and I grabbed a few Tuborgs, an oversize novelty sandwich from Lottes, and enjoyed the summer sun in the palace gardens... Good times...

Massive thanks to Scotty and Sophia for their hospitality and generosity... James, Kim and Kat, twas a pleasure... Thanks yall for sharing your amazing city with me! x

 Sunshine views from the Chancellor/Burger apartment...

 Scoot pops a backside ollie over the hip at Faelledparken...

I ain't no Glifberg... 

 Rune fs 50 on the over vert...

 Steeeeez... Rune fs bone in the deep end...

Just a bs smith on the over vert... Madness...

copenhagen detour... part two

It's awesome to see how involved and entwined with the city, and their work within (Scoot works at a restaurant called AOC, Sofia at NOMA), both Scott and Sofia have become. Uber keen cyclists whose lives revolve around good food and drink in a nutshell! Our evening meal of creamy mushroom pasta complimented with a tasty home brewed beer/fresh elderflower cordial was a testament to that... Deliciousness!

Copenhagen couple...

Birthday bike!

The next day Scotty and I headed out to the edge of the city limits for some bike adventuring and some mushroom foraging... Despite it being early in the season for 'shrooms, we came across a few patches of chanterelles in the forests surrounding Holte, before making our way through fields and paths to the coast and back into the city. 

Later that night we cruised a couple o bars, one a tasty (though somewhat pretentious) brewery called Mikkeller, the other, an awesome late night dive bar called The Moose (as if it's going to have a website) Both equally entertaining for very different reasons... Cheers tour guide!

 Fixter not hipster... Bike pride!

 Forests for days! Now where's those shrooms...

 Same but different... Still searching...

If you go out in the woods today...

 We've struck gold! In fungal form...

Tastes as good as it looks...

copenhagen detour... part one

So presented with a week off and relatively expensive tickets direct to London, I decided to make a detour on my way home via Copenhagen to visit friends Scott and Sophia, who've been living there for more than a year now... You know how sometimes, for whatever reason, things just fall in to place? This was definitely one of those times, one of those decisions, and one of those trips...

For one, Scotty had just signed off work for a month so was free as a bird to play tour guide and generally cruise both day and night... Good times...

After a relaxing train ride down to Malmo and across the bridge into Denmark, I arrived at CPH central and swiftly made my way to Nyhavn for a beer beside the canal. No sooner had I met up with Scott and his mate Kim, than we had a call from Sophia... Do we want to go and see Madonna's MDNA tour? Hell yes we do! Twas a freaking amazing concert, pure performance and a blast from way in the past... That definitely set the tone for the trip...

 Five of about 30,000 people apparently... Photo: Sofia Burger

Looks about right by my count... Photo: Sofia Burger