We walked about a lot but also bought the Copenhagen Card for transport and free entrance to some museums. Everyone spoke English which was great but once again made me feel guilty for having no real language skills – a classic Brit I guess.

Shopping was much more fun here – there are amazing furniture and design shops pretty much everywhere.

We also found a great camera shop called Photographica – they had a lovely 1967 Leica M4 which I got for my girlfriend as an early Christmas present.

Freezone, dangerzone

We went to the hippie freestate area of Christiania which seemed to be mainly people enjoying the fact that drugs are sold and smoked openly on the street. I was more excited by photographing the NO PHOTOS sign and wandering around checking out the graffiti. It did feel somewhat uneasy in the area but I am sure that is more knowing what goes on there than actually being exposed to it.

We also took a stroll around the National Art Museum which had some great work from across the ages housed in a gorgeous building – would definitely recommend spending a couple of hours there.

On the final day we went to Roskilde which had some beautiful houses and the Viking Museum which houses boats that were only recently restored.

Thawing out with coffee

It was mighty cold so that became a decent excuse to eat a lot of pastries and drink a lot of coffee. Everywhere we tried seemed to be good, over here you have to be careful where you get a coffee but it seems everywhere else in the world knows how to make a good cup.

The food was tasty, probably my favourite meal was at the cosy little Dyrehaven pub. We had sausages and potatoes with a cheese and parsley sauce – about £25 in total.

At the flat we enjoyed not being cold, getting in a caffeine frenzy and reading photo books. We also had great pizza from a little takeaway near the flat called Leo’s.

Hoping to cover quite a lot more short breaks in 2013 but this one was a lot of fun. Overall Copenhagen is a lovely city and the pace of life seems a lot slower than Brighton at least. I know everyone says they would live where they went on holiday but I think Copenhagen would be a great place to be.