In Living in Copenhagen on April 30, 2007 by Michael Tagged: Copenhagen, moving, Prague
So I ve been flat mate and business owner with Femi for 8 months. To tell the truth I wasn t sure we would make it for more than 6 months before we d run out of money. Luckily that has not been the case. We re still in business and doing well for the time being.
We have to leave the flat we are subletting in Copenhagen in about two weeks and we ve just signed the contract for our next place – in Prague.
I ended up in Copenhagen by chance, started a company as a crazy idea turned real and now I m moving to Prague because I can. I m loving it and I can t wait to get set up in Prague.
Copenhagen is a great city and even though I ve seen a lot of it over the past couple of months I will probably return.
In Living in Copenhagen, Videoblog on April 4, 2007 by Michael Tagged: videobloggingweek2007, videodk, vlogging
So here is my submission number dos for a week of videoblogging. I must admit I am falling behind schedule – but hey I finally get around to do some blogging.
This video is fresh of the camera. Sunday afternoon I went for a bike ride around the southern end of Amager. A place I have never been before – even though I have lived in this part of Copenhagen for close to four months. Well, Sunday I didn’t have any plans, no hangovers and the sun was out! So I grabbed my bike and went south.
I came across a couple of very interesting places that was really very cosy in that Sunday-kind-of-way.
- First of there is the Flyer’s Grill (DK) which is a grill bar with a perfect view of runway 22 at Copenhagen Airport. I learnt about the place from a fellow Danish videoblogger a year ago but it wasn’t until this day I checked it out. Pretty cool and definitely a place to bring the nephew next time he is in town.
- Dragør is an old fishing port built in old Danish style with narrow cobblestone-covered streets only allowed for people on foot, bike and – I guess – horseback.
- After this I really came into ‘the stick’. Out here is Kongelunden – The King’s Meadow – a paradise for birds and wild life. I’m not good at bird spotting but I saw a lot of different birds (some had long legs, others had long beaks, some could sing and others could quack). This is also one of the few places in Copenhagen area where you can see a sunset over water.
- Finally on the return to civilization I came by the new borough called Ørestad. They have this crazy triangular house that you get dizzy from looking at for to long.
Enough jabbing – go watch the video (and comment):
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(Almost) a whole video shot from my bike. I went to the sothern part of the island of Amager in the nice spring weather. The places I went are about 10-15 km from downtown Copenhagen.
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In Living in Copenhagen on February 10, 2007 by Michael Tagged: Copenhagen, couchsurfing, friends, making-friends, visitors
Last weekend two guys from Madrid stopped by our place for a couple of days. I didnt know them and they didnt know me but they found me on the website Hospitality Club (HC) where travellers can find free accommodation. Ive been a member of the site for two years but so far I hadnt used it myself and wasnt home when people wanted to stay at my place. This time it worked out – and it was a blast.
The cool thing about HC (and other sites like CouchSurfing) is that everybody gets something and it doesnt cost anything – social software at its best. When I travelled to America in 2000 I tried to use Servas – an off-line predecessor of HC started in 1949 – to find some people to stay with in US. The idea was great but in practicality too cumbersome for me. With HC its fairly easy and relatively safe to meet local people and get cheap accommodation.
Nacho and Alfredo are studying aerospace engineering and architecture and they had found some cheap flights to Malmö. So they had a few days to visit Copenhagen. They brought along some Mahou Negra cerveza (thanks!) and local red wine and then they cooked a traditional Spanish omlet. Here they are in action:
They stayed with us from Saturday till Monday so we went to a private party Saturday night and to Sunday Reggae at Rub A Dub (thanks for that idea, Alice).
Nachos and Alfredo invited us to a party at their apartment the 16th so now we just need to find cheap tickets to Madrid
