last night

"For me, loneliness comes from a sense of missing something. I never miss anything when I'm alone." -Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special

I guess that's not entirely true all the time. Do I need another vacation?

food halls of scandinavia

Food halls/markets are kinda like mini festivals with their bustling atmosphere and multitude of options and crowds. Generally things I'll avoid, but I do anything for food. So in addition to the libraries, I made it a point to seek out all the food halls.

still cozy

passion or force

A Taste of the Past described Scandinavia as "a place of intensity."
No place I ate at so adequately represented that as Øl and Brød.

all i want is herring

cozy

I've never waited so long for a bowl of porridge.

Not in a bad way. I mean, I was really holding myself together, so as not to cross the line into hangry, but we entertained ourselves with taking pictures and their cookbook.

fairytales from københavn

Hygge is enjoying life's simple pleasures. It's about good vibes and good people. Warmth and soul. It's the low candlelight, the smell of cardamom and cinnamon, and friends and fam around the same table for the holidays. It roughly means "cosiness."
And the epitome of cosiness to me is a wonderful cafe.
Walking around Copenhagen was... ethereal. I couldn't stop looking around, and everything made me convulse with happiness. Even the Airbnb was the cosiest little apartment with an interesting sticker of a naked woman on one of the bedroom walls. And as if it didn't end there, we even seemed to have a magic bus ticket that granted us access to all the buses and metros in the land... that, or no one gave a fuck (it's the second option).

My favorite way to travel is just to walk around. I'll map out food establishments as general guidelines, but there are no real goals in mind. Especially when I know I'll be traveling with Ann, who shares my priorities for food. And this is why "I like it when my friends do it for me" (note: apparently I talk in my sleep). We wove in and out of quite a few cafes, sometimes getting coffee, always to take pictures. They were all just so... cute.

I only regret one cafe purchase (well two if you count the espresso that was just too sour): this shortbread cookie sandwich with raspberry jam. It was just too sweet, and honestly, I'm not a cookie person. Not quite sure why after all the deliberating, I landed on this. But it's pretty.

Detour. You can probably buy my love with chocolate. Also loved the marketing team that came up with a box of "Short Term Relationship" chocolates. Scandinavia almost made me a lover of chocolate covered salt licorice. We thought we were headed to Simply Chocolate's brick and mortar or factory, but we ended up in the floor of a mall devoted entirely to chocolates.