Day 34 - Farvel Danmark

After four whirlwind days in Denmark, I can report the following. 

Every restaurant in Denmark must post a smiley face or a frowny face on its website to reflect the results of its latest health inspection. 

Since we’re on the topic of food, my dinner recommendation for Copenhagen is to spend $40 or $50 per person at whatever restaurant you choose, then go to a supermarket and buy some crackers, cheese, a mini bottle of wine and a chocolate bar to complete the meal. This has worked just fine for me every night.

Yesterday I went to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, making it my third positive learning experience of the trip. I actually really enjoyed it and highly recommend it. It is the most visited modern art museum in all of Scandinavia.  It’s about 50 miles from Copenhagen, so you also get to see a lot of the countryside just getting there. 

And it is on the ocean, so even if you’re not into art, you will enjoy the scenery.

The art is very conceptual and, at times, beautiful and clever, and really makes you think. This is from one of the exhibitions. Is it just a locked door? Or is it a clever way to blur the distinction between functionality and our own perceptions of what is and is not accessible to us, challenging our self-imposed limitations and assumptions that unnecessarily diminish the richness of our interactions with the world surrounding us?* 

But I had no time to focus on that because after the museum, I was off to Roskilde, the original Viking capital of Denmark, located on a fjord, which makes it easy to go out on “burn and pillage” trips whenever you like (Roskilde fjord pictured below).

I had a nice cheese and cracker dinner last night and this morning went to Malmo, Sweden, which is described as being like Stockholm, but with a Copenhagen vibe, whatever that means. But it is technically another country, so there’s that.

A quick walk around town tomorrow morning for a $20 coffee and pastry, and then back to Spain.

*It was just a locked door. I tried it.