Day 20: Copenhagen

We started the morning at Hart for coffee and baked treats before heading back over to the huge “castle playground” as Poppy calls it.

We played there for an hour or so before making our way to the meatpacking district where we had a lunch reservation at Kødbyens Fiskebar.

I booked it the other day and I didn’t quite realize that it was such a high-end “gastronomy” spot. Everything we had was absolutely delicious. My favorite were the mussels (they pointed them all facing up!) but we also had delicious shrimp, razor clams, fish pies, squid, and cod. It was all too manicured for Poppy but she had a bunch of bread dipped in the various sauces. A somewhat unexpected splurge meal 🙃. Highlight was perhaps the waiter very seriously explaining dashi broth and kombu to Poppy when she asked what kind of soup we had. It’s good for you he says!

Did a bit of shopping at FANGST and an Asian grocer on our way out of the meatpacking district and back to our apartment.

After nap we hopped on the metro over to Christianshavn. There was a GANNI store that Jill wanted to visit so we found a nearby playground (which, surprise surprise was awesome and also had bikes lying around for the kids to use) and then walked up to Rosforth & Rosforth for a glass of wine by the canal.

It’s fashion week here so they were setting up some kind of runway show under the bridge in front of the wine shop. Poppy played with bubbles while we had our wine.

From there we walked over to the Broens Street Food market where we had dinner. We had shockingly good gyros and had fun eating outside. Weather wasn’t great this afternoon but there was no rain at least, just cloudy and windy. Some performers showed up on a bit while we were eating and I shot a short video.

Back on the metro home with another great day in the books. Could just be that Poppy has adjusted to the travel, or perhaps she just loves Copenhagen but she’s been consistently more agreeable here than in Paris.

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