Copenhagen was my favorite city that we visited. It was so peaceful and quaint, but artsy and open to adventure. Everyone was very friendly and it was a very clean and small city.
I noticed right away these bags surrounding many of the tree bases.
As we got closer, we noticed it was to help with regular watering during the warmer months. You zip open the bag and fill it with water and it allows a steady flow of water to be released for a few hours, it claims. I think it might last even longer.
Anyway, as we toured around, we took a bus that dropped us off at this outdoor food vendor market right on the water. The different food smelled incredible and each stand was very unique, creatively designed, and smelled like the most incredible food I have ever smelled. It was a wonderful experience and I wish I could go here everyday for lunch.
I got these AMAZING tacos from a stand that also had hand-pressed blue corn tortillas. Ari told me that blue corn is typically an heirloom variety and very authentic to Mexican cooking. The hand pressed aspect is very rare to find and shows how much effort they put into their tacos.
They had a vegan taco, a vegetarian taco, and a meat taco. I tried the vegan and vegetarians tacos and they were both phenomenal. The authenticity in their cooking was very apparent, and the flavors were absolutely incredible.
Ari is almost fluent in Spanish so he was able to talk with the people working the booth and found out they are from Chile and worked their way over to northern Europe. They were really welcoming people and explained in detail how they make everything from their sauces to their tacos. It was really cool to be able to connect with people from South America in Denmark and relate our foreign feelings.
While I was getting tacos, Ari was captured by the smell of grilled herring that we passed while exploring the different stations. It was locally caught fish and the freshness was apparent in the flavor.
It came with potatoes and sauces and one I was astounded by was this rhubarb ketchup sauce. It was such a unique was to prepare rhubarb and it inspired me. When we had rhubarb growing, I was stumped by creative ways to prepare it so this was really unique to see.
Copenhagen was a really cool experience and I hope I can go back at some point. On one of our tours, we passed by an area that was sectioned off to be gardens with tiny homes. The people are not really supposed to live there full time ever but most live there during the summer.
These gardens are rented out to the people who live in the city but miss having a garden in a quiet, relaxing area. There’s a long waiting list to rent out these plots and I could see why. Each plot and house is so unique and beautiful; people are really able to express themselves.
Along with these city garden sanctuaries, Copenhagen is doing a lot to improve environmental conditions and their environmental impact. I would love to learn how they make such decisions and get their people to care about them. I just really loved Copenhagen.