Category: History

• Assistens Cemetery

  

  This morning’s walkabout for a different bakery (Meyers Bageri) lead us to one of the oldest cemeteries in Copenhagen, Assistens Cemetery. This burial ground has become a hybrid space: a churchyard-turned-city park. For more than 250 years, the people of Copenhagen have buried their dead here. From the very poor and unnamed to the famous…

  Kelly Ballard

  August 24, 2023

  Attractions, Discovery, History, Sight-seeing

  Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, Franz Hildebrand, Gravplads for Gadens Folk, Master Fatman, Morten Lindberg, Soren Jensen, trees, urban park

• Birkenstock Nation

  

  Wearing a fancy dress? Birkenstocks. Going for a bike ride? Birkenstocks. Going to the store? Birkenstocks with socks. Birkenstocks are the footwear of choice in Denmark. It is a country of industrial fashion and I love it. Why Birkenstocks? It’s a classic. The roots of the shoemaking dynasty can be found in 1774 when Johannes…

  Kelly Ballard

  August 22, 2023

  Fashion, Footwear, History, Humor, Tips, Travel

  Birkenstock, Copenhagen, Europe, Footwear, History, sandals, shoes

• Saturday – Playday!

  

  Saturday is for playing. So play we did. First stop – breakfast! We walked about 15 mins from apartment to get a seat outside at Mad & Kaffe. It’s a busy cafe on a bustling street. Lots of cool kids. They let us seat anyway. Breakfast is kind of an a la carte thing. You…

  Kelly Ballard

  August 20, 2023

  Attractions, History, Restaurants, Sight-seeing, Tips

  Bar Pasta, Copenhagen, EVs, King’s Garden, Mad & Kaffe, Pasta, Queen Caroline, Rosenborg Castle, Roses, Tapestries, viggo