My first trip to Denmark.

The next day I arrived and after showing up at the university, I made friends who recommended renting a bike, the train system that costs around 10 Usd, seemed like an incredible expense, they also have almost 400 km of bike path, nothing strange for a student living in a city three times larger. The bike cost per day was approximately 16 Usd. I was able to travel a lot, since it is a small city and it is all connected, in a combination of neighborhoods and beaches with their channels that separate the city from the most High class neighborhoods of the undergrounds. As a first experience I went to Osterbro, the day was warm and I found very colorful beaches and parks, I loved one of the restaurants, I ate a lemonade and a Smørrebrød It is an extremely traditional and, at the same time, simple dish. It consists of a slice of black bread, spread with butter and with slices of meat, fish, cheese and is accompanied with a garnish. So I continued on my bike to the next neighborhood In Norrebro a few kilometers more, I found an important stop a second-hand market, Nørrebrogade, where there are very interesting accessories, there is a lot of diversity of cultures, comfortable location, so I continued with the bike To the next neighborhood, to Vestebro, there I passed a pass, this neighborhood surrounds the train station and is quite dangerous or spicy more at nightfall, so there I did not have much to do. The next day, having a map of the route, I was interested in exploring more, and the locals told me about Amager, it is about 30 minutes from the center, it is more chill, relaxed, it has beautiful beaches, I loaded my backpack, sandwich and my headphones and there I started, After a few hours on the beach, continuing to enjoy the fresh air for me is a new form of biking tourism. They mentioned to me. The Free City of Christiania is a partially self-governed neighborhood of about 1000 residents. It covers an area of ​​34 hectares in the Christianshavn neighborhood. There is a lot of artistic movement there, and it is totally free from Denmark, with its own rules, you cannot film or upload videos, this area was an abandoned military area and was occupied by hippies in the 70s, the use and sale of drugs is allowed soft, they have neither water nor electricity except for generators, and you cannot enter by car, there the diversity is wider even as it is a friendly sector with tourists and the police cannot enter, the truth is to take a walk there is very Safe and super fun to experience the rides through the smoked canals. When you leave, a sign warns that you are re-entering the EU. Finally I had one more day to take advantage of the bike, that day I traveled all the channels that I could, I was enchanted with the colors that their houses have, especially the Nyhavn canal is a promenade, canal and leisure area of ​​the seventeenth century, It has brightly colored petit hôtels from the 17th and early 18th centuries, bars, cafes and restaurants. It serves as a "heritage port", and has many historic wooden ships.

The large Memorial Anchor (in Danish, Mindeankeret) at the end of Nyhavn, where he meets Kongens Nytorv, is a memorial commemorating the more than 1,700 Danish officers and sailors in service for the Navy.

Christianshavn, an area of ​​small islands, known for its culture of modern cafes and canals surrounded by colorful houseboats, is a place where coffee is very expensive.

Enough to travel and it is a country where people are happy all the time, thanks to its economic stability.

An idea occurred to me since I had a few days left and the meeting at the university was over, with some colleagues from Argentina that I found, we decided to go to Malmo, which is now in Sweden.

Going from Copenhagen to Malmö is a fairly common journey for tourists visiting the Danish capital. They are two of the most interesting cities to see in Denmark and Sweden, respectively. Malmö is only 30 minutes by train from Copenhagen and can be a perfect day trip. The Swedish city is small and can be seen in a few hours by crossing the Öresund Bridge.

Copenhagen and Malmö are the largest cities on either side of the Øresund Strait. Great rivals since time immemorial, today the Danish capital and the Swedish city are, since 2000, connected by an impressive bridge that, in itself, is a brutal architectural work. Thanks to this civil engineering work, we can travel the 16 kilometers that separate the two shores in just half an hour. As a curiosity, to say that this bridge does not physically connect the two banks since, with a tedious study behind it, it was detected that the pillars could cause collisions of commercial airplanes due to the proximity of the Copenhagen international airport; in this way, the section that goes from the Danish shore until well into the strait is, in reality, a tunnel under the sea. There are two alternatives to get from Copenhagen to Malmö: by train or by bus (in addition to the private car). In my case, and I totally recommend it, I used the train; and I explain why.
The railway in Denmark (and in general, in all of Scandinavia) is highly developed, with comfortable trains and many frequencies, being the means of transport most used by the Danes, apart from the bicycle!

Once you arrive at Malmö Central Station, you simply have to cross a bridge over one of the city's canals and you will be in the historical part. Malmö, with just over 300,000 inhabitants, was originally an industrial city that has known how to adapt to the new times, as you can see in its architecture with a clear Scandinavian stamp.
With great milestones in its history, it stands out for having one of the largest libraries in Sweden But unfortunately, up to here. Yes, the city has completely disappointed me. Maybe I expected to find "a little Oslo" half an hour from Copenhagen, but no. The city maintains its industrial character and the European quintessence of closing everything after 6 pm becomes, here, much more palpable. Malmö may be the perfect excuse to say you've been to Sweden, but certainly for a few hours. I do not recommend at all to do the same as me: sleep there. Later I have been to Stockholm and I can say that this was precisely the type of city that I expected to find in Malmö: a problem of having high expectations.

Amsterdam arrived late at night, on a flight that connected me to Buenos Aires, luckily it rained, that in Amsterdam almost 190 days a year it rains, my flight was unfortunately delayed due to technical failures so the company assigned me a Hotel the Petit Prince, the Transfer was very comfortable since there are Tesla taxis, but generally everyone uses the train which costs approximately 12 Euros.

The hotel was very close to many attractions, but I only had one day, a few hours to rest and return to the airport, no more than 24 hours in Amsterdam, I read enough to be able to take photos, enjoy a day in another country.

Dutch is a very difficult language, but English is available to everyone, incredible views of the Prinsengracht canal. Food, drinks (including wine) and flowers are provided free of charge. The apartment has a large flat-screen TV, a selection of DVDs and CDs, candles, soft lighting and a cozy fireplace. The Petit Prince is 300 meters from Anne Frank House and a 10-minute walk from Dam Square. The Westermarkt Tram Stop is a 2-minute walk away and provides direct links to Amsterdam Central Station.

One of the curiosities the next day, taking advantage of the good weather and the hours, having breakfast at Albert Heijn is great, there are many branches and it is cheap to even buy presents. Then I continued walking and I realized that there were many places that sold CBD products and it is a trap for tourists, since if you want THC you have to visit the coffee shops, which you cannot film and take photos there either, in that country it is legal but In others not, even smoking on the street is not legal for that reason there are coffee with a great variety, you have to have respect when walking because Amsterdam is the capital of bicycles, if you cross badly, you walk where you should not go, They run you over, as they are not very friendly to tourists in that sense.

Finally, walking through the canals, I couldn't rent a bike and visit neighborhoods and coffee shops, of course! If having a good beer with the little sun that is already remaining was like saying, Amsterdam, we'll see you next!