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SCANDI BREAKS ARE all the rage these days, and we can really see why.
There’s something about their effortless cool, amazing design and laidback vibe that keeps tourists coming back for more. Nowhere captures this spirit more than Copenhagen.
(And of course, watching shows like Borgen and spotting stars like Viggo Mortensen on the silver screen might have helped Denmark’s case too…)
So here’s our whistle-stop guide to all the coolest, more off-the-beaten track things to enjoy in Copenhagen. Got any more tips from your own holidays? Let us know in the comments section.
First things first: Copenhagen is a foodie destination, home to what is commonly described and voted as the best restaurant in the entire world called Noma. Why not? Go big or go home, after all. It’s a pioneer of so-called New Nordic grub, using unusual and locally sourced ingredients. If you can’t snag a seat at Noma, check out this list of restaurants that former staff have set up.
As you almost certainly know, there is non-stop epic TV coming out of Denmark these days. Nordic Noir guided walking tours shows tourists “the dark side of Copenhagen” with the tours stopping by locations moved in top Danish TV. The tours are in English and are completely free, leaving twice daily from Vesterport Station.
Havnegade is the place to see and be seen – full of cutting edge restaurants, lots of cafés, bakeries, the whole nine yards. And speaking of The Bridge and The Killing, you’re sure to see a familiar face from the telly around this area, due to it being really popular with actors and artsy types. Dip into Holberg 19 for a drink afterwards and look out for Sarah Lund.
Alright, alright – bear with us. So this isn’t an attraction to see in Copenhagen itself, but rather a way to take advantage of Denmark’s close proximity to Malmo. This will take you up close and personal with the Öresund Bridge, and a short train journey will show you a massive national and city contrast in an afternoon. (Plus you can say you were in both Sweden and Denmark on your travels. #Swish).
And after all of your gallivanting, you’re going to need some caffeine. Enter Sort Kaffe & Vinyl (which translates as Black Coffee & Vinyl) off Istegade for some a wide range of newly pressed wax for music-lovers and fine coffee for those with a refined palate. Match made in heaven.
Next stop: Papirøen, or Paper Island to us anglophones. Catch the little water taxi (even though it’s a really short trip) to add a bit of glamour to proceedings, and once you land, get some of the incredible street food from the market. It might not be as fancy as Noma, but perhaps a shade more realistic for the average Joe. This is also the ideal spot to grab a pitcher of one of the many, many delicious beers available in Copenhagen to enjoy as you look out over the harbour and kick back.
Speaking of kicking back with a brew, let’s talk about Nyhavn. Its picturesque, multi-coloured facades are what might come to mind when you think of classic Danish vistas, and beyond them you’ll discover plenty of hip beer bars (some outdoors too, if you’re there in the summer months). Whatever you’re into, Copenhagen can deliver. Go forth and taste something different. After all, you’re on your holidays…
To celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Carlsberg Research Laboratory in Copenhagen, leading scientists and brewers at the Laboratory have now re-brewed the world’s first quality lager, using the original pure yeast from 1883. Enjoy Carlsberg responsibly. Visit drinkaware.ie.
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Strangely,the situation in NI will be hugely affected by the decision of the Scottish people about leaving the UK. If they do,there will be no UK. With whom will the Unionists then be in union?
Plus as a cleaning up exercise with Scotland leaving, the exchequer in Whitehall would no longer be interested in shelling out £10bn to NI each year. The other question is would people in the RoI be interested in taking in NI?
I think we all no that Scotland wont leave the UK
You mean know not no. Not this time. But it could well happen in 15-25 years.
pedantic much
That’s true. Although in the highly unlikely event that Scotland does leave the union Id have thought things would probably get worse up north. Paranoia would go through the roof .Northern loyalists would feel like they are the last bastion of ‘true British pride’ and all sorts of violent rhetoric would be trundled out.
What is going to happen in the Peace Process is that the North will always maintain a certain set of difference, have Stormont but be federally a part of Ireland with some relationship and oversight by Westminister as a comfy blanket and support financially to ease the process which will and is being done over many years.
Kinda like devolution in Scotland, will have most of the control but a federal role in Dublin as well.
So it will be reunited, not in the way that we think though.
Westminister wants shut of conflict in Ireland, Britain is a declining power and does need the hassle of running the North, a reminder of a not very proud time in their past. They hardly care what happens north of Bermingham never mind Belfast, they want out of the North one way or another and that is that.
This is the transition phase.
Loyalist rants are nothing new, it is only if they are given a free lease by those in control of the paramilitaries will anything happen and I’ve yet to hear of a Loyalist commander that was not employed as an agent of the state.
Very unlikely to happen,latest poll at 27 pc, for.
I fear you are right Eoin!
Whats rather funny is most people in GB find it strange why a bunch of “Irish “people should run around the place wearing union jack shirts in “Ireland” throwing stones at the police.
They are not really in union with anyone realistically speaking.Do the British really care about them? I dont think so.In England they see you as irish if you live on the island of Ireland north or south.Its about time these people moved on.
Nothing as funny as seeing a Loyalist being called “Paddy” or “Hey Irish” in London. Oh how I lol on that glorious day.
I am Irish but still a Unionist/loyalist. I wouldnt be offended at being called Paddy.
My church is church of Ireland so how could I be anything else?
James mate. A lot of us down south don’t give a flying fuk about religion. Come down to Dublin. Have a weekend down hear have a pint with us you will see. I agree with the irish in the north are not all saints. But lately you loyalists are causing all the trouble and you don’t realise how stupid you all look. And you don’t realise that you loose when you behave like that. The orange order are still playing sectarian songs out side Catholic Churches burning irish flags and so on. We irish and the good people of Britain look down on this with embarrassment. More so the Brits because its there flag there using to commit crimes under. Attacking police. From out siders point of view it just looks vile and uncivilised. And the people who are in charge of these events should cop on and stop acting like thugs. Why don’t you join us the south. after teething problems at the start I think we could become a powerful island when we put our talents together. And it would be ridiculous to think we would stamp on your rights as a prod plus our government hate the ira and Sinn Fein if you’ve ever watched irish political debates you would know this just a thought because how many more years are our people going to be divided by hate?
I’ll bet you’re not an Orangeman though! Your reasoning is too clear!
I wouldnt even entertain the idea of uniting this island because we are hated on it from top to bottom, if resisting a united Ireland annoys the haters then im willing to do it until my last breath. The sweet talking is just a ploy to get us go commit to a system that would prove to be hell for us in the long run. I can live my life happily under the current set up and I dont need to express the same hatred towards people in the 26 counties as they express towards me (and dont pretend it doesnt happen because I see it on here daily and on other sites). The rest of this island isnt my concern anyway, its an irrelevance to me in all honesty, might as well be an ocean apart.
Ok James, looks like your work here is done.
My political opinion is a valid one and I’ll continue to express it and defend it.
Good for you James.It’s good to see that at least one of you isn’t out burning Irish flags and calling for the murder of all Taigs.
Why arent you out burning union flags and calling for the murder of all huns? Oh thats right it isnt August 15th yet.
No reasonable minded individual would argue that this behaviour is as deeply ingrained into Irish ‘culture’ as it is into loyalist ‘culture’.It’s unheard of in the south.
The kind of comments i’ve read on here by Irish people since the 12th are indiscernible from the comments that i read on Yahoo and Daily Mail by your fellow Britons in England.
Well its such comments that’ll keep me in doubt about the “proper irish”. When they start showing me and the wider unionist community a bit of respect then maybe I’ll be willing to listen to them.
As it stands currently, I owe the irish nothing and I dont have to change one iota in order to please them. Its them that want the status of the island to change therefore its them that need to start pleasing me!!!!!!
And burning our flag isnt unheard of in the south, it was burned during the love Ulster parade and burned when the Queen visited. Dont go making up lies to try and promote the south as some kind of great welcoming entity. Our national anthem was booed too when we went down to play ROI in that carling nations cup, a couple of people in NI tops were also assaulted in a Dublin bar during that same tournament.
The behaviour of sections of your community down there is no better than that of the republican dirt up here.
Cry me a river James.So the Union flag was burnt twice by a handful of hoods? It’s not ingrained into our culture,that’s the difference that you can never seem to grasp.Fleg shops in East Belfast actually sell tricolors to burn.Hundreds are burnt every year and then you have Unionist politicians publicly condoning this low quality,rubbish behaviour.
No suprises there,loyalists have a vested interest in nurturing hostilities with everyone else on the island.
How do you expect Irish people to react?
The way you played down the hatred of my people there in that last post is part of the problem as far as I can see.
In your eyes burning the tri colour is an outrage but when my flag is burned and I highlight it i’m told to cry a river.
Your attatude does not work for me and until that general Irish attitude changes dont expect me to see eye to eye with any of you.
And the union flag wasnt just burned twice either, that was twice that I seen it being burned on the streets in Dublin city centre in broad daylight. Its burned 100′s of times on August 15th bonfires in nationalist areas along with the Ulster banner and any other unionist symbol they can manage to steal, they’ve even burned the Scotland flag on them in places.
You highlighted 2 isolated incidents that occurred in the south that were roundly condemned by the public.You burn our flag and it’s a “part of our Kulture” – a culture that you demand we respect.
The Irish people,represented by our government have made great efforts towards reconciliation over the last 15 years.It is quite clearly viewed with absolute contempt and suspicion by your community.
The Irish attitude will change when your community grows up and loses the permanent chip on it’s shoulder.
Well my views or feelings wont change until I start getting a bit of respect. So far all I get from the Irish is animosity.
Where was this condemnation over the burning of our flag? Have you a link for it?
“what sadly is becoming an all too common feature of the marching season: scenes of sectarian violence in North Belfast.”
The first instance of Orange Order parades ending in violence against nationalists was recorded in 1813. Anyone over 30 will remember when every 12th was surrounded by an upsurge in Loyalist killings. The 12th and killing Catholics go hand in hand like Pumpkin and ThanksGiving.
The Orange Order and its associates in the UVF represent the rump that will not move on from the sectarian hatred of 300 years and while the DUP and UUP still pander and asociate with both most people view them as refuges for angry bigoted old men.
Yeah sure it was only loyalist terrorists doing the killing wasnt it
Yes.
James no it wasn’t, you know as well as I that since the Plantations of the early 17th century, the two communities have been killing each other. One side rebelling every generation, and committing atrocities while they were at it, the other constantly trying to maintain a sense of ownership and supremacy in a land where they were viewed by the natives as hostile outsiders, also committing atrocities while they were at it.
Problem nowadays is that the crowd who were under siege from word go have never been more isolated. They react with rage, their hatred for all things Irish is hard to fathom. I really don’t know how we integrate these types. All outsiders from the Celts to the Vikings to Anglo/Normans and Old English were more than happy to assimilate into the Irish culture, but not the Orange KKK. I just think that they will become more and more marginalised as things go forward because frankly most people are sick of their antics. They’re prepared to kill members of the Crown forces they purport to be loyal to, in an effort to vent their spleen at the native. That tells you all need to know.
Its the aim of the rest of this island to marginalise us. They dont like us. Even in my short time posting to this site ive been called a hin cvnt and told to fcuk off back to Scotland.
To that I say fcuk the rest of this island and its people, im only going to worry about myself and my own folk from now on.
Things have to move on James, can’t stay stuck in the past forever. Move with the times or get left behind. Isolate the bigots and let the rest of the people get on with it. Are you cool with that?
Move on while being called a hun cvnt and being told to fcuk off back to Scotland?
Did I use ant derogatory terms on here while engaging others? No
Im not the one the needs to move on mate. I was brought up to respect people regardless where they are from, sadly that respect doesnt often come back towards me, its also sad that the only people on this earth that I have problems with are the ones who reside on this island.
Ah still the same auld bluster.. you sound like another fella who used to be on here, used to use this “cvnt” thing a lot too.. pure walter mitty type.. mad as a box of frogs he was.. don’t know what became of him..
So what am I supposed to make of such derogatory bvllshit. Do I just turn the other cheek and get it slapped too? Do I fcuk
James, I am thinking you are living north if the boarder…am I right? Unfortunately where you are from is a top priority for the inhabitants there hence all the sectarianism that is rife and alive.
However, please don’t categorise all from this island as you put it like that. South if the boarder people don’t really bother too much with things like that and I personally don’t want to be judged by association just because I am from this island.
Shut up you clown ye haven’t a clue baldy bollix.
Great argument. Solid foundations
Yes I live in Derry myself
I was just getting you back for calling me plonker on a different article.
Protestant tradition – Go to church every week. Work for a living. Emphasis on education. Integrate with modern surroundings.
Unionist/Loyalist/Orange Order tradition – Not go to church. Social welfare. Uneducated. Culturally backwards. Bigoted. Racist. Hate.
Ah The Leads Are Weak… you left out, a bunch of drunken cocaine fuelled Neanderthals?
I guess this is the best suming up of the situation ever published http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/war/protestants-parading-around-like-a-bunch-of-dildos-again-2013071275664
Lol. That about sums it up perfectly
You are disrespecting their culture of supporting Rangers, hating Catholics, hating Irish people, playing tin whistles and beating on drums outside Catholic churches.
Cut it out.
The Catholics allow marches down South and allow (pointless) extensions to marches up North and what do we get for our collaboration? Absolutely nothing.
Bend over backwards to accommodate these people and their bigotry and they still aren’t happy.
They shouldn’t be able to march. Period. They have had countless opportunities to do it peacefully but they have declined because they want to provoke Catholics.
The country should be unified as it has been proven time and time and time again that Unionist leaders are incompetent, bigoted, pontificating racists who are doing their utmost to bring the country backwards with their paranoid, self-serving propaganda.
3500 marches a year in a small area.
Is it any fuppn wonder that people hate the Order, every Sun. the roads blocked off around towns and villages and drunk Orange men and their friends singing the famine song.
I’ll stick with Riverdance, TG4 and hurling as culture. Buckfast and plastic union jack bowler hats are not in the same league. That is not culture that is a stag do.
It’s being said before but it’s worth repeating.
What’s going on in the North is the equivalent of the KKK marching through black neighbourhoods and spewing vile outside black places of worship.
“I warned about the dangers of the ‘mission accomplished’ narrative that had seemingly become the prevailing consensus in Northern Ireland politics.”
Can you provide proper evidence that this narrative is currently operating outside your own head david? Some might say it would be useful for a senior member of Fianna Fail Belfast such as yourself to be claiming such a narrative exists and then try to argue against it.
@thejournal. In the interest of transparency, can you PLEASE identify individuals party affiliations when publishing their articles if such articles deal with political matters.
ahh that makes more sense. He is involved in the FF no wonder he is pushing this angle. Trying to make that things are worse than they are so that FF can come in and “save” it all.
FF could join up with the DUP or the Orange Order, all have problems with womens rights. All are homphobic, all have a tradition of giving 2 fingers to the south, all are mostly made up of old men. All have a stink around corruption and fund raising.
And while you are at it please get rid of these anonymous twitter accounts like the above repeatedly trying to ‘call out’ people on their affiliations (which mainly are not hard to work out) whilst hiding behind a made up name, who aren’t exactly lacking their own agendas. In the interest of transparency of course.
You didn’t mention your own party affiliation Jonathan. Maybe you should…in the interest of transparency of course…..
“…I warned about the dangers of the ‘mission accomplished’ narrative that had seemingly become the prevailing consensus in Northern Ireland politics.”
Where is this narrative coming from? You just have to look at what Declan Kearney and others in the Sinn Féin leadership are saying to know that this claim that there is a so called “mission accomplished” narrative in the Six Counties is untrue.
“The progress of our Peace Process shows what is possible through engagement and dialogue, but the events of recent months demonstrate the dangers of taking it for granted.” – Declan Kearney – http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/26402
Does anyone proof read anymore?
My thoughts exactly.. that this was written by someone who puts a Ph.D. after their name appals me.
“Appals” you, does it?
Oops. Predictive text and a bad dictionary. No excuse though.
It would be helpful if we were told more about the author rather than just “David McCann is a PhD researcher in Irish politics at the University of Ulster.” He is also a long time member of Fianna Fáil and has been involved in trying to set up Fianna Fáil in the north generally as well as the Universities.
It is worth keeping this agenda in mind when it comes to his pieces about the north of Ireland, all of which, in my opinion, are agenda driven, albeit with subtlety. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before the “The North needs new parties” line comes out with it being expressly stated, or more likely laced with disguised hints, that FF are the answer.
I’m sure I don’t need to tell anyone about the damage FF have done in this state but they are now trying to spread their poison to the north, as if it hasn’t suffered enough! While the nationalist community were under siege this past twelfth in Belfast, “Befast FF” had the following to say:
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They will say anything for votes – classless.
FF will get a lot of hardline loyalist votes from the North
“ahh shurely they they made a right heap of shi7 for the taigs in the South and there open for business to any buyer so they are,”
“Don’t call me Shirley”
I got as far as ‘this is what most people seen’ and gave up….
There’s another “we seen” further down. Grates on one’s ears, one finds
“Northern Ireland and the dangers of the ‘mission accomplished’ narrative”
Funny, the columnist writes so many articles on the North, yet he has never written one in support of an Internationally run truth and reconciliation forum.
Would it be possible David, that as a FF supporter, this would not be politically expedient?
When you have the likes of Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and many others calling for a forum in the North for over a decade, is there not something sickly wrong with the leadership in the North, South and Britain, when none of the leaders of the establishment party’s echo Mandela’s call?
I have no problem indulging the columnists ego by reading his columns every time he puts them up on Journal.ie. But PhD or not PhD, his lack of engagement on the Reconcilliation topic shows that he is no more interested in moving the North along its path to normalization than any leader of a right wing party in Israel is in solving the Israeli Palestinian problems.
I’ll support the truth commission when Gerry Adams admits he was in the IRA.
James,
You are a perfect example of why the Orange order are losing the PR battle.
The columnist writes an article condemning the Orange Order and the columnist cant see any way through the annual parades impasse. You, as a Loyal Orange Order supporter, don’t even recognize when someone writes a comment condemning the columnists pretense/hypocrisy at being sickened by what the columnist describes as bigoted hatred on the Orange Orders side regarding the July annual ritual in the North.
Instead of engaging constructively and agreeing that my proposal is the right way to move the 6 counties forward towards normalization, you join the columnist in supporting maintaining the status quo and looking for reasons for the world to reject your pleas for ‘your perceived God given rights to do what you please’.
Maybe the author is right in describing the North as an apartheid situation, where the Loyalists who perceive themselves as superior, have no interest in changing the status quo, by encouraging a shared future.
No matter what way I engage I get red thumbed anyway so what odds is it?
The british goverment should set up a system where people in the north that can’t see a future in a shared northern Ireland ,can return to the mainland.Im sure there are some cities in the mainland that might welcome an influx of loyalists,the E.D.L might even see their numbers go up.
It will be a long haul. Ignoramuses tend to breed with one another.
“There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Unionists.” That seems to be the consistent narrative of the majority of comments on these topics. The mistrust and hate is reciprocal. Irish fighting the Irish. My team’s better than yours.
Glen, we are all understandably getting a bit tired about the sensation of deja vu we all get this time of year, when a gaggle of grown men, who should know better, throw their toys out of the pram (riot with police) because they aren’t allowed march (infest) through Catholic neighbourhoods to provoke aforementioned Catholics with their bigotry and racism.
It’s 2013. Catholics don’t have the energy for this fight anymore but these idiots just won’t let it go.
True Leads, but there exists mistrust on both sides. Ireland is probably the last place in Europe where you still have walls dividing people. It’s a zero sum game, my side is better than yours. We know the vast majority of people just want to get on with their lives. But answer me this, what would be the reaction if I wore a Rangers jersey in Dublin? Is the hate and aggression I would undoubtedly receive any more justifiable? There needs to be some reconciliation and concessions on both sides. After all, you’re all Irish whether you like to admit it or not. There needs to be a way to coexist and respect all traditions, other than ethnic apartheid by either side. The UK doesn’t care and the rest of the world isn’t aware. Lets move forward.
Glen, the fact is that wearing a Rangers jersey in anytown Ireland might accomplish nothing more than a curious glance. A knacker might say something but then again, it doesn’t take much for them to harangue somebody.
Ireland is moving forward. The Northern part of this Island isn’t.
Glen.
I think you are living in the past yourself. Many of the most vocal opponents of the Orange Order are from within their own community.
The OO are the historical root of the KKK.
Anyone got a picture of the rioter in the air?
I used to think that I could not go on
without marching and singing racist songs
But now I know the meaning of true Orange
I’m leaning on the everlasting red arm of Ulster
If I can see it, then I can do it
If I just believe it, there’s nothing to it
I believe I can riot
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and riot away
I believe I can roar
See me running through a Catholics door
I believe I can riot
I believe I can riot
I believe I can fly
You are a bit of a bigot yourself by the looks of things
Sorry hope in places like Derry? Someone needs to do their research on the dissident activity in stroke city! Derry is the definition of papering over the cracks, I mean the name itself causes controversy. Belfast is far less divided city in which violence is restricted to single streets and are nothing compared to yesteryear. Yes there is a severe lack of true leadership with both sides content to let sectarianism continue but this is just as evident in Derry than in Belfast.
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