COPENHAGEN CITY GUIDE

A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN I PICKED UP MY FIRST COPY OF KINFOLK, I COULDN'T STOP OBSESSING OVER THE DANISH ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN THAT WAS FEATURED THROUGHOUT THE ISSUE. I THEN CAME ACROSS DANISH CHEF, RENE REDZEPI, OF THE TWO-MICHELIN STAR RESTAURANT, NOMA, IN AN EPISODE OF CHEF'S TABLE. HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE THE SIMPLEST INGREDIENTS AND TRANSFORM THEM INTO AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK OF ART. A FEW MONTHS AGO I READ MANREPELLER'S ARTICLE ABOUT COPENHAGEN FASHION WEEK WHERE SHE RAVED ABOUT GANNI, BOYY, VINTAGE STORES AND AVOCADO ON RYE BREAD. SHE HAD ME AT VINTAGE STORES AND AVOCADO. MY FLIGHTS WERE BOOKED.

WHEN I ARRIVED, THE TAXI DRIVER POINTED OUT HOW RARE IT WAS TO SEE THE SUN OUT. IT WAS OFFICIALLY SPRING IN COPENHAGEN. MY FIRST STOP IN THE CITY WAS AT THE FAMED PORRIDGE HOUSE, GRØD. I ATE MY PORRIDGE ON THE GO AS I MADE MY WAY TO THE BOTANICAL GARDEN.

A NICE WARM BOWL OF PORRIDGE TOPPED WITH PEANUT BUTTER, CHOCOLATE CHIPS AND BANANA AND CHIA PUDDING WITH CHOPPED NUTS AND BANANAS.

ON THIS WARM AND CLOUDLESS DAY, PEOPLE FLOCKED TO THE BOTANICAL GARDEN TO SOAK UP SOME SUN.

WITHIN THE GLASS WALLS OF THE GREENHOUSES ARE VARIOUS SPECIES OF EXOTIC TREES, FLOWERS AND OTHER PLANT LIFE.

A LAYER OF GREEN MOSS AND OVERSIZED LILY PADS REST ON THE SURFACE OF THE POND.

MY NEXT STOPS WERE NYHAVN AND THE SCULPTURE MUSEUM, GLYPTOTEKET. THE ICONIC COLORFUL HOUSES THAT LINED THE WATER IN NYHAVN WERE JUST LIKE THE POSTCARDS (ESPECIALLY MY COVER PHOTO).

NYHAVN, COPENHAGEN

SCENES FROM GLYPTOTEKET.

THE NEXT DAY, I EMBRACED HYGGE (A DANISH WORD FOR DESCRIBING AN EXPERIENCE THAT COMBINES A SENSE OF COZINESS, COMFORT AND BELONGING) AT MØLLER-KAFFE OG KØKKENAND WITH CORTADOS, RYE BREAD AND VARIOUS SIDE DISHES. AFTER FUELING UP, I BIKED AROUND SUPERKILEN PARK. I WAS A BIT RUSTY BECAUSE IT HAD BEEN YEARS SINCE I LAST BIKED, BUT AFTER A FEW PRACTICE ROUNDS I WAS RIDING LIKE A PRO.

PICTURED IS A SPREAD OF ORGANIC LEMON YOGURT, SPICED AVOCADO, RYE AND SOURDOUGH BREAD W/A SIDE OF JAM, BACON AND A DELICIOUS NØRREBRO WAFFLE.

I COOLED DOWN WITH A STROLL TO THE ACNE ARCHIVE. HERE YOU'LL FIND PIECES FROM PAST COLLECTIONS AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE. I OBSESSED OVER THE LEATHER MOTO JACKETS AND WOOL JUMPERS, BUT SETTLED FOR A PAIR OF BOYFRIEND JEANS THAT I COPPED FOR JUST $50!

ON MY LAST DAY IN COPENHAGEN I WENT NORTH TO THE LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF ART. IT IS LOCATED IN A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD ON THE SHORE OF ØRESUND SOUND IN HUMBELEBAEK. THE ART WAS VERY FASCINATING, PARTICULARLY WILLIAM KENTRIDGE'S EXHIBITION, THICK TIME, WHICH COMBINES FILM, THEATER AND MUSIC.