Toldbodgade 28A

Walking tour
Or guide came at 9.30 road morning to take us for our food and walking tour of Copenhagen.

The tour stayed in the local food market with a talk on the history of food and cuisine in Denmark. Similar to other places there is a movement to go back to natural and local produce.

We started with a collection of cheeses from micro dairy farmers. The code talked about being able to taste the land through the food. You can definitely do that with the cheese. The salty ones are from a region where the farms are irrigated with sea water. We followed this up a collection of crackers and jams from Bornholmer district.

From the markets we walked through the botanical gardens and saw a magnificent glass house. From afar it looked like a palace but once we got closer we found out that it housed over 9,000 different types of plants. Today was the coolest day of winter thus far in Copenhagen and the lake had even frozen over.

Denmark is famous for its open sandwiches and we went to a very trendy Cafe that is run by a famous young local chef. We tried a range of open sandwiches including egg, cured salmon, Christmas ham and even steak tartare. I liked the steak the most.

After a walk along the lakes that surround Copenhagen we arrived at a micro brewery to sample a range of beers. The kids are very excited as they got to try cola and juices.

Cowman is the only major city in the world with more bicycles than cats. It is quite evident as you walk around as to how many bikes there are. People in formal office clothes, parents with kids and even postmen are on bikes of all shapes and sizes. On most streets the bike lanes are wider than the car lanes. Walking across a major bridge we came across an electronic display which showed a count of the number of books that had crossed that day and also the current year. By midday today over 4,000 bikes had crossed the bridge and the annual count was over 4M.

For lunch we stopped at an organic hot dog stand and Matthew proceeded to get sauce all over his jacket and jumper. The dogs are really tasty and mine had a cheese dog with onion, gerkin and sauce on top.

We ended the tour with a couple of dessert stops. The first was a store that had been making hard lollies since 1851. We tried a special Christmas lolly that had a liquorice centre in a rhubarb coating. The second dessert was a more traditional truffle but with a marshmallow centre.

Thomas was really upset for the last part of the tour and may would not settle. His body clock is still off and is taking him a bit longer to get acclimatised.

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