Having lived in the north of Germany most of my life I did a lot of travel in Denmark. I can only confirm what you say, that it is an absolutely beautiful and delightful country! Filled with Vikings and good beer, lol. One summer we’ve rented a beautiful little cottage in the grassy dunes on the north sea. It was so windy and chilly it was slmost impossible to even go outside, but we persevered. I will never forget Skagen, the beautiful small Artist colony on the northern Peninsula of Jutland. I remember a horrendous, traffic jam. I remember the beach, which comes to a point where the North Sea meets the Baltic or the Straits of Denmark being covered with blue jellyfish on the left and orange jellyfish on the right. Covered. it’s a sight I’ve never seen before or since. But the water is too cold to swim anyway, so no problem ha ha. The impressionist school of art of Skagen is most interesting. It’s so worth a visit just not on a hot and sunny August day. It sounds like you were lucky!
I love your adventures! I had a conference in Arhus decades ago - kept singing "Arhus is a very, very fine house with 2 cats in the yard".... and that you for the links to apartments. I need to be in Vilnius in August (peace dependent) and have been playing around with how to take time and slow travel there and back. Stay well!
Love your blog. Denmark is a lovely place. Next time you visit there try to spend a night or better yet, more than one night on the island of Aero. It's a lovely place. We visited there in 2018 from the US and it was beautiful. We wished we had more time there. We look forward to visiting again once we get our D7 residency approved and feel we can leave Portugal to travel again.
In CPH itself I can recommend the STAY apartments. They have kitchens, and provide bedding, towels, etc (though on occasion we found their determination of what was necessary and ours varied quite wildly). There’s a new location right in Nordhavn where we spent our final month before relocation—it was wonderful in the warm sun, located right next to a series of canals everyone jumped into. And just downstairs was a small cafe with coffee and pastries-5 minute walk to the metro line.
We didn’t have a car during our CPH time so the “bring your own bedding/towels/cooking utensils” was a dealbreaker for us—the holiday houses near Legoland had the same stipulations.
Having lived in the north of Germany most of my life I did a lot of travel in Denmark. I can only confirm what you say, that it is an absolutely beautiful and delightful country! Filled with Vikings and good beer, lol. One summer we’ve rented a beautiful little cottage in the grassy dunes on the north sea. It was so windy and chilly it was slmost impossible to even go outside, but we persevered. I will never forget Skagen, the beautiful small Artist colony on the northern Peninsula of Jutland. I remember a horrendous, traffic jam. I remember the beach, which comes to a point where the North Sea meets the Baltic or the Straits of Denmark being covered with blue jellyfish on the left and orange jellyfish on the right. Covered. it’s a sight I’ve never seen before or since. But the water is too cold to swim anyway, so no problem ha ha. The impressionist school of art of Skagen is most interesting. It’s so worth a visit just not on a hot and sunny August day. It sounds like you were lucky!
Yes we had absolutely spectacular weather everywhere we went!
I love your adventures! I had a conference in Arhus decades ago - kept singing "Arhus is a very, very fine house with 2 cats in the yard".... and that you for the links to apartments. I need to be in Vilnius in August (peace dependent) and have been playing around with how to take time and slow travel there and back. Stay well!
Love your blog. Denmark is a lovely place. Next time you visit there try to spend a night or better yet, more than one night on the island of Aero. It's a lovely place. We visited there in 2018 from the US and it was beautiful. We wished we had more time there. We look forward to visiting again once we get our D7 residency approved and feel we can leave Portugal to travel again.
Keep up the good blogging!
We loved Skagen!! Thanks for the hotel recs
In CPH itself I can recommend the STAY apartments. They have kitchens, and provide bedding, towels, etc (though on occasion we found their determination of what was necessary and ours varied quite wildly). There’s a new location right in Nordhavn where we spent our final month before relocation—it was wonderful in the warm sun, located right next to a series of canals everyone jumped into. And just downstairs was a small cafe with coffee and pastries-5 minute walk to the metro line.
We didn’t have a car during our CPH time so the “bring your own bedding/towels/cooking utensils” was a dealbreaker for us—the holiday houses near Legoland had the same stipulations.
So glad you had great weather!
What a great trip! Absolutely beautiful...thank you for sharing your adventures.
Thanks for riding shotgun!
Nice write up, I’ve been waiting for this one! I’m half Danish and love Skagen especially. It looks like you were very lucky with the weather!
Yes, we had exceptional weather during the entire trip!