It has been more than 9 months already since the previous EuroMiniMeetup (in Thessaloniki - the ones before that had been in Treviso and Manchester), so it was high time for another one! The concept is quite easy: visit a local guide I have gotten to know thanks to the local guides program in a city in Europe for a few days.
This trip took me to Denmark, where I visited @MortenCopenhagen , who turned out to be a wonderful host. Morten insisted that I did not book a hotel, but instead stayed at his summer house - an hour north of Copenhagen, close to the famous castle Kronborg (more about that later). The room came with breakfast and my host even cooked a delicious 3-course dinner for me! Had this been a commercial operation, nothing less than a 5-star review would have been fitting! Staying there also gave me the opportunity to see the part of beach of the sea called ‘Kattegat’, although it was a bit too rainy to enjoy it to the full.
As it was my first time in Copenhagen, I obviously wanted to see the big tourist attractions, as you can see in the pics below - one can simply not be in Copenhagen and not go see the little mermaid, right? Turns out she’s in fact not all that “little” after all; the statue is the size of an actual person.
As I am a big fan of beautiful works of art (especially paintings), I usually visit the local museums that are said to have an impressive collection. In Copenahgen this turned out to be the SMK, the Statens Museum for Kunst. Here are some of the beauties I encountered there.
Morten also took me on a short trip to Sweden. With the ferry (see the opening photo of this post) it only takes 20 minutes to reach Helsingborg, where we visited a shopping center - mainly to mutually show off our Google Maps editing skills 
There was actually quite a bit that had to be corrected there, mainly the pin location and removing businesses that were no longer existing. It might sound strange to some of you, but for 2 editing-oriented local guides (Morten is well on his way to reach 100.000 edits, I’m still “stuck” at 26-somethng thousand) is was a truly enjoyable experience. And the fact that we were able to exchange some tips (later in the evening also about road editing) was definitely and added bonus.
During our visit we also enjoyed some beverages, which then caused us to also have to search for the toilets (as an avid coffee drinker, that happens to me quite frequently). And that is when I spotted the signage that you can see in the picture below. The red circular signs with the white icons are of course the ones we had been looking for, but what about the curved one underneath also in red, with white text. Morten explained to me that “Polsemannen”, the name of the business, means “the sausage man”, so I’m still not sure whether the combination of the signs is meant to be ambiguous on purpose - from a distance, a first glance, they seem to belong together anyway 
As Morten had been in the shopping center before, there was really no chance for me to get any picture featured - most shops already had a picture by Morten in the #1 spot. But on the way back to his house, when we took the train from a smaller train station, I discovered that the POI there did not have any photos yet, so I quickly took a snapshot and uploaded it - resulting in me having a featured photo now in absolute Morten-territory. I never dreamt this could be achieved 
Speaking of train stations, there is something I defintely need to mention. The Danish logic behind assigning numbers to platforms is kinda weird, if you ask me. On my way to Morten on the first day I had to change trains in one of the train stations and according to the board announcing the departures, my train would be leaving from platform 0… which turned out to be next to platform… 13 
Unfortunately I only had a few minutes for the connection and therefore no time to make a picture of the odd platform numbering. But no panick, the trip back from Sweden soon brought another fine example (in the smaller train station I referred to before - did I mention that I have a featured photo there, in full Morten-land?). Just check the picture below. Do you notice anything weird?
Our train was announced on track 1, no problem there - but the crucial question was of course… the platform 1 on the left or the platform 1 on the right??? Luckily we were on the right one, the one on the right (do read that sentence again, it is grammaticaly correct and does make sense).
On my final day, I visited Kronborg castle, a place I had seen during the Explore the Globe virtual meetup. It is the place where Sharepeare’s famous play Hamlet is situated - you know the “There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark” bit. Definitely worth a visit (it’s Unesco world heritage).
Denmark is of course also famous for Lego, so it will come as no surprise that in the room where visitors are invited to show their creatvity (as you see in museums all over the world these days) there were not only paper and pencils, but also this ( @PaulPavlinovich if you ever get to visit Denmark, you know where to go!)
There’s one more picture I want to share, showing another famous Danish export product. You will probably have heard their slogan “Probably the best beer in the world”, so I obviously had to put that to the test. And, being from Belgium, I can assure you that - although it does taste very nice - it is most definitely not the best beer in the world. To anyone feeling the urge to dispute that claim: please do come and visit Belgium, so I can convince you of its validity.
︎Wonderful post sir, 
︎festival vibes,
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but then subsequent photos showed that you did get some blue skies… so definitely not UK’s infamous grey palette
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