Copenhagen day 2 and 3

Our second day in Copenhagen,and surpringly another sunny and warm one. After a bit of breakfast of another pastry and latte, we got on the metro to Kastrup.

Copenhagen is a fairly easy city to transverse, Matt and I each got a 3 day travel pass which covered all of the buses and trains, including our travel to and from the airport, for DKK 190 or about £20, and although we mostly walked everywhere, it was still worth it for journeys like this.  First up on our list today was the Blue Planet Aquarium.

As Northern Europe's largest, the aquarium situated next to the harbour features an amazon rainforest, sea lions, and over 20,000 fish in a sweeping swirl of over seven million litres of water which is divided up into various regions.  As a beach girl at heart, there's nothing more relaxing for me than wonder around for a couple of hours and watch all the fish swim by, passing under the underwater tunnel.  By my standards it was a pretty impressive aquarium although I was disappointed that we only caught a few fleeting glimpses of the sea lions.  

After a morning spent under the sea, we headed back downtown for some lunch.  When we were doing a bit of research before we left, I had read rave reviews for Grams Laekkerier, and they were not wrong.  A little off the beaten path, the sandwich shop is the perfect place for lunch with good prices and amazing food.  Matt went for the smoked salmon sandwich while I still can't stop thinking about the amazing chicken and mango I got.  The portions are massive and on very fresh dark Italian bread and there's a nice selection of teas and juices to wash it down.  

After lunch we headed over to Christavn to explore another area of the city, taking in the picturesque canals that run through the city and took a walk through Copenhagen's alternative community Christiania, which was a weird insight into alternative Copenhagen, but it was a bit, well, hazy there.

For dinner we decided head up to the top of the Tivoli Hotel to Sticks in Sushi.  The sushi was amazing and sitting at the bar looking out over the lights of Copenhagen was a great atmosphere. The bad thing about having incredible food on holiday is you end of craving it later, but luckily there is currently one Sticks in Sushi in the UK and it happens to be right down the road from me in Wimbledon (with a new branch opening in Covent Gardens next month I've heard). I'd highly recommend their soft shell crab rolls, perfection! 

Our third and last day we still had a lot of options as to what to do and thought about heading over to Malmo, Sweden which is just a short train ride away, but with just 3 short days, it didn't feel like we had really seen all we could of this great Danish City.  Pastries for breakfast were beginning to become our Copenhagen routine and easily the best we had was on our last morning at Andersen Bakery near Tivoli gardens.  I think my favourite part was that they do a large selection of mini pastries, I  case you can't decide.  Needless to say we ended up with some great lattes and a few pastries each.

We decided to spend a bit of time wandering around Europe's longest walking street, Strøget which has an incredible selection of shops and bakeries.  I did a bit of souvenir shopping and headed into Pandora (which began as a Danish company) and got a fairytale book charm to remember the trip by. We decided to stop for food at the Royal Smushi Cafe. This place is famous for its miniature take on the city's famous open sandwiches, smorgasbord, which has a 'sushi' feel to it, so smushi.  We both went for the 'shooting star' (with plaice and topped with cavier), Parisian Beef (which featured steak tar tar) and the old fashioned chicken salad, which might have been my favourite, all washed down with a pot of earl grey tea.

After we made a quick stop by the national museum of Denmark for a bit of a wonder, which features some great exhibits about the country including Viking exhibitions,

we had to switch hostels and headed down to drop our stuff off at Copenhagen Downtown Hostel.  It was in a good location like Danhostel, but it definitely had more of a youth hostel vibe, whereas Danhostel was a bit more like a hotel.  If you are a student travelling with a few friends, this is the hostel for you, but I think for me and Matt is was a little too hip (and this is coming from someone who still thinks they are about 21). There were bunk beds, people making communal meals, and a foam party at about 3am, which is awesome, if you don't have a 6:30 am plane to catch.  But the bar is a really social, cheap place to have a couple of drinks which we did do (and felt just a bit old).

I once again was reminded not to trust my poor bf with times when I let him set the alarm for the flight since he was sleeping on the bottom bunk, his phone hadn't changed time zones and we woke up an hour later than intended and had to make a mad dash through the still drunk streets of the city and on to a metro full of people in lasts night clothes to get to the airport, fleetingly saying goodbye to one of my new favourite European cities.