Girls Weekend in Copenhagen

Now I'm going to try to keep up-to-date and I'll go back and fill in other things that have gone on in my first week here as I have the time (and after I take some pictures!).

I spent this weekend in Copenhagen with all of the girls from my new lab. Five of us went over from the lab and we met up with a recent lab alum who is currently postdoc-ing in Copenhagen. The Danish contingent of the group (2 out of 6 of us) ran the show. We didn't do too much sightseeing, which was ok by me since I had been to Copenhagen before. Instead, we went shopping, drank lots of coffee, ate lots of sweets, and had our fair share (or maybe more than our fair share?) of Danish beer and (not-so-Danish) margaritas. The weather wasn't all that great (it was raining on and off) but that didn't stop us.

We flew to Copenhagen late Friday afternoon. We split up to drop our luggage off - half of us stayed at Line's friend's apartment and the other half stayed at Ulla's apartment. We met up in downtown Copenhagen at an Irish pub for burgers and Danish (Tuborg) Christmas beer - which is really good. Most of the bars/restaurants in Denmark are not smoke free and this particular bar was super smoky so we left when we got sick of the smoke.

We spent most of Saturday shopping (mostly window shopping) in downtown Copenhagen. Of course, we took a break for coffee and Danish sweets. Saturday night we went to Norrebro Bryghus (a restaurant/brewery) for dinner. A few of us had the "beer menu" in addition to the regular menu, which meant that they brought out a different beer with each course.

Here's Ulla, Lotta, Line, me, and Kathy finishing our beers after dinner.

After the brewery, we went to Mexibar, a cocktail bar whose specialty is the strawberry margarita. So, clearly, we suffered through a few of those.

On Sunday, we wandered through the city, saw the Little Mermaid, and then had fancy hot chocolate at Le Glace. This place is known for their hot chocolate, which we appreciated after being caught in a quick hail storm.

Ann-Charlotte, Line, Kathy, and I are taking a break.

The trip was short but it was a great way to start off my time in Sweden. I really enjoyed spending time with some of the people in my new lab and it was a nice little vacation before starting my first week of work.