Sjov Weekend

Our long week of lectures ended with a lovely relaxing weeking full of "hygge," the Danish word for ultimate relaxation.
   

The Spanish Tapas place where I had lunch at the Food Market

Saturday was full of flea market shopping and doing touristy things.  It is customary especially in nice weather for people to set up booths along a long yellow wall surrounding the cemetary in the Norrboro neighborhood.  You can really find little flea markets set up all over the city on Saturdays so I began my day with some shopping.  In the afternoon I went to the food market which was one of my favorite places Ive been by far.  After a nice long lunch I went to the round tower which is a very interesting place.  The view of Copenhagen from the top is breathtaking and also dizzying.  You have a 360 degree view of the city and can see all the way to the sea where there is the enormous bridge to Sweden and a series of windmills in the water.   


View of the bridge to Sweden from the top of the Round Tower



The Round Tower



Saturday evening we went as a group to Tivoli, the second oldest amusement park in the world.  This is a beautiful place where you feel as though youve stepped back in time when you enter. We had a nice group dinner and then walked around and watched people ride the rides.  



Tivoli





On Sunday morning we all woke up very early to get to the train station to take the train North out of town to go the beach.  We went to one of our lecturers summer homes from last week.  This is a quaint little house that sits near the beach.  We had a nice long walk to the ocean through the woods and it was spectacular.  It was very nice to get out of the city and see some of the countryside.

Ole Harbo's Summer Home