The City of Colour

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark, so of course we planned to visit it from the beginning. Good for us, the I-life association, which we have already spoken about earlier, has organized a three days trip to Copenhagen. We had booked for it at the beginning of March and since that time we were waiting impatiently to do it!

Christianhavn

Last weekend, time had finally come and so we left Aalborg on Friday at 6 o’clock in the morning!!! Thankfully, with a 6 hours travel we had time to sleep and to gain strength for this weekend because, with only three days in Copenhagen, no time for daydream, we had a lot to do! It was a fully organized weekend with visit time and free time around the city and two nights with breakfast included in a Hostel in Copenhagen city center.

Generator Hostel Copenhagen

Finally arrived, we went straight to the hostel to drop our luggage and eat something before going to our first visit. And what hostel… usually we are used to youth hostel with only basic supplies for young people but this one was really amazing, clean ans well decorated with a modern bar and dancing space.

The old harbor

After the hotel, we were ready to start visiting the city. We went to a canal tour in a fly boat around the city, then we went to visit Christianborg Palace which is where the Queen hosts her reception. We discovered that she loves art so, the Palace is a mix of ancient and contemporary art decoration. After those first visits, we ate at the hostel and got ready to enjoy our first evening in Copenhagen. 

Christianborg Palace

The next morning, we woke up hardly to be on time for the "All you can eat" breakfast and after having really eaten all what we could, we left for a visit of Rosenborg Castle and the Crown Jewels. After that in the afternoon we went in Christiania the famous free city in the middle of Copenhagen. There, we couldn't take any pictures. We were with a guide who learnt us a lot about the creation and the way of life of people living here. We could feel by walking in the street that we weren't really welcomed there. After that we had free time for the evening and we met with other international students to have a drink in a bar.

Only photos allowed in Chrstiania

Nyhavn

On Sunday  we had free time for all the day, so we left for a walk around the city going from the famous little mermaid, passing by the great old harbor Nyhavn and finishing by the tower of the Church of Our Saviour where we climbed 398 stairs to reach the top and discover a great view of the city !

The Little Mermaid

   Church of Our Saviour

We left Copenhagen at 17 for an other six hours trip. the bus quickly became very quite as everybody was exhausted by this full weekend ! It was a great trip, we met a lot of people as we were more than 50 international students together and finally we all loved Copenhagen, it's a beautiful city with a lot to do and to discover. I would love to go back there if I can and I recommend it to everyone!

Claire

An expected day

One month ago, we bought our ticket for an Ice Hockey match in our city. We were very exciting to be at this match because it was between the Russian team and the Danish one.

So we invited our French friends from Horsens. And we waited forward for this day.

Friday 12^th finally arrived!

Our friends were here and we went to the match. As we didn’t know if our places where on the Russian side or Danish side we didn’t take Danish flag or something to show in which side we were. We didn’t want to upset the Russian …

But when we arrived, we had Danish flag and we showed that there was not a lot of Russian so we were glad to support the Danish team. 

The atmosphere was so cool. All the Danish supporters had flags and were dressed with the Danish colors: red and white. There also was a little orchestra who sang all the match.

Left: Russian Team, Right: Danish Team

So the match began with the different national anthems. Everyone was getup and quiet. And just after they put some music and the supporters were rampaging.

Danmark! Danmark! Danmark!

With our group of 20 French’s we were so happy to be here. With a beer and salted pop-corn we supported the Pirates (Danish team) theentire match but even with that, the Russian wan the game 3-0.

It was still a good game. In fact, we learned after that the Russian team was first in the national ranking and the Danish team was only twelfth. So it was not really a surprise that The Russian wan this game.

But we stay Danish supporter. =)

Camille