His View 

Denmark - Feliks' perspective

We got lucky that our Hostel was right next to the train station, and so for the second time in a row we would get to explore the city without our heavy backpacks. We arrived early and started our journey through the city right away. The first thing I noticed about this city was the cleanliness of it. They had trash cans in a lot of places but not one was overflowing. The city was not that huge as far as walking for us, but again I think we had a record day for steps. We started with the main strip and checked out all the shops. It was an expensive city, probably on the scale of London. We visited a couple churches and the Little Mermaid statue, saw some really old buildings and pretty cool new ones. My favorite part was visiting Christiania. This was said to be the most dangerous part of the city but the most interesting. To give you a little background story of what we were told, Christinia is a small neighborhood where people openly sell hash. This is an illegal activity in Denmark yet there are booths set up where one can purchase all the hash they want. When you enter this area it is evident that you are somewhere else. The sign says that there are three rules in this area: 1 - Have fun, 2 - Don't run because it makes people nervous, 3 - no pictures because hash is illegal. I was impressed with the fact that everyone knew this area existed and everyone knew what happened there yet the police nor the government had shut it down. People were respectful inside and even though some of the people looked really sketchy, not once did we feel in danger. Everyone just did their own thing. Upon exiting the premises the sign read ‘You are now entering the EU’ as if you just came from another country, which it felt like we did. 

The rest of Copenhagen was just as cool. There were great little areas all over the place and again the cleanliness of the area was a real treat compared to London. I was also very impressed with the bike lanes and the amount of people on bicycles. It was here that I had my first experience with bicycle traffic. 

Overall, I really liked Copenhagen. It was clean, beautiful, and just overall very pleasant. Things seemed a little pricey as far as food and general goods. One of the people at the hostel actually said that Copenhagen was considered one of the safest cities in Europe. I could believe that. WiFi was somewhat easy to find and most public places. I would come back to Copenhagen any time.