Travel journals

It was a beautiful day today, perfect to visit Tivoli Gardens! It's a short 15-minute walk from our apartment, but even arriving just 10 minutes or so after opening it's already crazy busy. Getting into the garden was pretty quick though. Oh my days...it's a flower wonderland! The gardens are everywhere throughout the park and very well manicured. We had amazing timing to see all these tulips popping up. And they were huge! We can't get over the size of these flowers. Of cour

It was a rainy day today, but we braved the weather and went for a walk through the nearby park - Ørstedsparken. It's a very well-maintained park with a cafe, playground and lake in the middle. The foliage is beautiful this time of year with many trees blooming or at least starting to bloom, and even some peonies and tulips too! Exiting out of the park, we then walked along the "lakes" - which we keep calling the canals. There's dedicated bike paths, as well as separate walki

Today saw us walking from our apartment in Charlotte Ammundsens Plads to Nyhavn, which is along a canal and gives views of quintessential Denmark. This area is definitely more touristy, but a nice walk nonetheless. On the way back we dropped into Magasin, a department store like the equivalent of what you'd go to in Japan (but much smaller scale and no basement food center). I happily found my favorite non-alcoholic gin - Tanqueray 0.0 - which is unfortunately only available