Efterår

After a very lovely late burst of summer in September, October really decided to change things up. One day the max daily temperature just fell ten degrees overnight, from 22ºC to 12ºC, and all of a sudden it was autumn.

The good news is that Copenhagen is very, very beautiful when all the leaves are turning. The bad news is it’s also been very rainy and the thought of leaving the house has not been very inviting. Luckily last weekend there was a burst of sunshine, so we ventured out to try and experience an actual fall, as opposed to whatever happens in Sydney every year.

In the interest of completing our last embarrassingly overdue moving chore, we finally got the ball rolling on getting light fittings in all the rooms in our flat – it’s amazing how motivating 5pm darkness can be. En route to Nørrebro to pick up some lights, we took a sneaky detour via Kongens Have, Botanisk Have and Ørstedsparken (and also Grød for good measure). It was a productive morning, knocking off some sightseeing while also moving one step closer to being able to find things at night without head torches…

On Sunday we broke new ground, firstly by trying a new bakery (Bageriet BRØD – go for the kardemomme boller, stay for the mandler croissants), then by riding around Vestre Kirkegaard. A word of warning – this is where I found out that Copenhagen has a thriving population of red squirrels. If you don’t like squirrels, things are about to go rapidly downhill for you right about now…

Lest I leave you with the impression that Copenhagen is just all lovely and refined and hip and classy and autumnal, here is an abrupt change of tone to end this post – a sign advising that a new Netto supermarket is on the way, the logo for which is usually just one innocent-looking scottie dog, just going about it’s business shopping…

Despite it’s refined facade, sometimes Denmark just enjoys being really, really publicly inappropriate.