Scandianavia
may once have been the home of the Vikings but on our recent trip it seemed now
to be the land of the overpriced pint. The beers were still totally, completely
delicious (obvs) but when you’re coughing up seven quid a pop you begin to feel
like you’re being pillaged as much as you’re getting pissed.
No matter,
mad vibes were afoot as we were in Copenhagen to ‘large it’ (as any self-respecting
Viking might have once said) for a wedding. The flex was four days of intense,
late night drinking with the marriage thrown slap bang in the middle. The backdrop was a city full of aesthetically similar humans,
bicycles and lakes of Tuborg.
Unsurprisingly,
much of our trip was spent swimming, some times drowning, in these lakes. After
getting up at 3.30am to catch our flight, we spent the first 24 hours continuously
boozing, aided by an altercation with a quartet of firey espresso martinis. At
one in the morning we were chewing on coffee beans and ended up heading off to the
last available watering hole in the Danish capital to sink more lagers until
light.
Friday was
slightly more sedate with a bit of a sweat over a soundsystem (moi was the
chosen wedding selector on the big night itself - eek) while Saturday saw the
bells toll and the union go down. It was a suitably sweet and funny do with
plenty of manly Guiness supping, smoking, shouting and eating before
total chaos descended. There was a hoe down, large amounts of Whitney and Mel
and Kim plus some unfortunate soilage and locking out. Big ups to the happy
couple for letting us run totally riot. It was wild.
The next
day’s hangover boozy brunch ended up in a pub crawl which ended up in boarding
a ‘party bus’ which ended up in Christiana – the lawless district where you
leave your rules and your wits at the door. We discovered the Green Light
district where you can purchase relaxants via shady looking gents hiding in
stalls under camouflage netting. It’s a weird place to visit especially under
the cover of night but was a fitting full stop to a huge jaunt indeed…
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| Can't stand the rain |
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| Hippy |
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| Norman Foster's |
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| The harbour |
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| Smorgasboard |
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| Students |
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| Eat the bean #espressomartinis |
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| Getting late |
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| #nokip |
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| View from the bed 1 |
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| View from the bed 2 |
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| Breakfast |
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| Wedding disco records |
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| This old cinema is a netto |
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| Get in ma belly |
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| Hired wheels |
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| Load of idiots at the mermaid |
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| Unimpressed by mermaid or idiots |
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| Anything goes zone |
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| Wedding socks |
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| Wedding sign |
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| Wedding scran |
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| Wedding band |
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| Wedding dancefloor |
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| Redlighting that mother |
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| Wedding hangover brunch - an hour late |
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| Cumulus |
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| Footsteps |
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| Guiness flex |
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| Sunday night party bus |
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| On the party bus |
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| Christiana at night |
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| Smorgasboard |
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| Going home |
