Vinayak Hegde

After leaving Norway after a long stay, I stayed for a few days while in Gothenburg, Sweden. Soon it was time to move again. The penultimate stop on the journey was in Copenhagen, Denmark. Almost everyone I met on the trip told me that Copenhagen is a beautiful city and rated it it higher than Stockholm. The train journey from Gothenburg to Copenhagen was nice as the train had to traverse the Øresund. The Øresund bridge-tunnel is a combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge-tunnel across the Öresund strait which separate Sweden and Denmark. It is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe. The tunnel part of the bridge was built to provide a clear flight path for the Copenhagen Airport which is nearby and also for the ships crossing the straits.

In Copenhagen, I had a gracious CS host who lent me a bicycle to explore the city. Using a bicycle is the best way to explore the city. There are even separate pathways in the city for bicycles and even separate traffic signals (pic here). You will find the greatest variety of bicycles in Copenhagen. I even saw a impeccably-dressed women wearing stilettos zooming past me in a bicycle during my stay there. About 37% of Copenhagen’s population uses bicycle to commute to work and together they cycle more than 1.1.million miles.

By the time I had reached Copenhagen it was evening, so I decide to explore the city and take some photos using my tripod. The results were good but it took some time to get the settings right in manual more. All of these photos were taken around the artificial lakes flanking the western ends of Copenhagen.

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