The city of Copenhagen is placed is the east of Denmark, on the islands of Zealand and Amager. Also, it’s separated from Malmö (Sweden) by the straight of Oresund, but joined to it through the Oresund Bridge, in the joint of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.

The city appeared in time of the viking times, but the traiditonal date that marks its foundation is 1167, when Bishop Absalon fortified it. Currently, its population in the metropolitan area is about 2,800,000 inhabitants, a fact that contrasts a lot with the population of Malmö, with only 280,000 inhabitants.

Copenhagen is internationally recognized as one of the most beautifully and best designed cities, and I admit that it was really nice and beautiful, with an impressive mixture between the German and Swedish styles and a great structure, but maybe I didn’t enjoyed it much because I went there straight from the amazing city of Istanbul .

Anyway, the interesting places to see in the city are spread all over the city, not being concentrated in just one area, encouraging you visit most of the city and enjoy just wandering and getting lost in them; which, by the way, is a really nice experience.

Something that drew a lot my attention is that Copenhagen is full of of statues and sculptures, many of them related to the tales of Hans Christian Andersen, giving the city the magic feeling of a fairy tale.

A thing that you can feel in the city and its population, is the cultural difference with the Swedes, as here people is more open and vivid; and you can feel it in their attitude on the streets, and also in the nightlife of the city.

Also, inside of Copenhagen you can find Christiania , a neighborhood created in 1971 with the semi-legal status of independent community. As a curiosity, their feeling of independence is such that, in the back part of the main entrance signal (that is, what you can read when you’re leaving) you can read “You are now entering the E.U.”

As a curiosity, there’s more than one Mermaid statue in Copenhagen… for me, instead of the typical The Little Mermaid one, I enjoyed more The Mutant Mermaid that you can see on one of the attached pictures. And you can find it close to the famous one.

My conclusion is that it’s a very interesting city, with a very defined north-European style and, most of all, very elegant. And I’d really like to visit it without having the recent memory of such a wonderful city like the fore mentioned Istanbul.

Related links:

• Wikipedia: Copenhagen.

Well, you know that lately I haven’t been telling when I was going on a trip, but this time my travel is going to keep me away from home for 15 days, and from a computer for, at least, one week. So I think it’s worth mentioning.

About the first trip I already told you some time ago, but I can tell you again, hehe. The fact is that I’m going to Istanbul to take a 7-days course in Bioenergy taught by teachers of the Istanbul Technical University. The course has been arranged by the Board of European Students of Technology (BEST), particularly by the group active in the previously mentioned university. After that, I’ll spend 4 more days there, visiting a friend of mine, but I don’t know yet if I’ll stay in Istanbul or I’ll try to visit any other part of Turkey.

Then, as my plane for coming back from Istanbul lands in Copenhagen , I’ll spend another 4 or 5 days there, visiting the city… at last. And I say at last because I’ve already been in Copenhagen 3 times, but only in its airport and its train station, so now I’ll happily be able to enjoy the capital of Denmark.

And after that, I’ll go back to Karlskrona , to relax some days after so many trips, to finish the degree project and… who knows what else?

As I usually do when I’m going to other countries, I’m going to put my “traditional” post-it, both in the header of the blog (where it will stay until I come back to Karlskrona) and in this post, so it doesn’t get lost in space and time, hehe.

Anyway, the blog won’t be dead this time, because I’ve scheduled some post trying to maintain my usual posting rhythm, that is, about 3 posts per week.

So… see you!