The summer sun turned the canal waters orange-golden. It was late evening but felt like early afternoon with a cool breeze. My first evening in Scandinavia had become a favourite memory already. Around me, the pier adjoining to Strandgade and Inderhavnsbroen in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, was brimming with young adults enjoying the late sunset…
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“In Denmark you can’t be in people’s company unless you’re drinking beer.” With those words, Jonathan Schlichtkrull, my guide, summed up the importance of beer in the Danish capital. I am on an exploratory trail across Copenhagen, trying to understand their love for the Danish pilsner and how it might have trickled down through generations…
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In the Danish capital, 62 percent of Copenhagers cycle around to work, study or play. There are bike rental docks and repair shops every few metres. Copenhagen has 375 kilometres of cycle tracks and nine out of ten Danes own a bike. It would be criminal not to explore a city so well-designed for cyclists…
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