After meeting with Seyoung for the first time in person, Chyi then proceeded to treat us both to dinner and a long tour of East Copenhagen otherwise known as Frederiksstaden.

The tour began with a walk through some yellow housing known as Nyboder.

My first view of the Marble Church:

For dinner we were treated to traditional Danish food at Restaurant Vita which was in a building over 300 years old. I had the fried pork with parsley sauce.

After dinner Chyi took us through downtown to the opera house:

We then walked past a canal where tons of people were enjoying a Jazz festival.

As the sun began to set we approached the Royal Danish PlayHouse:

The tour then headed towards the Amalienborg Palace” where the Danish royal family lives. Before that we past by some gardens and a fountain.

After the fountain we got our first glimpse of the palace square:

After the palace we made our way to St Alban’s Church

Next to it was the Gefion Fountain




Eventually we got to the spot where there is usually a statue of the Little Mermaid that was made famous by Hans Christian Andersen. The statue is currently on display in China, so instead we were treated to a big screen in the water.

The tour ended with a walk through the The Genetically Modified Paradise which included variations of the little mermaid statue.

Copenhagen is a compact and beautiful city and it was a pleasure to have such a fantastic tour of this part of it. Thanks again Chyi! For more of the pictures I have taken during my stay in Copenhagen – feel free to visit my Copenhagen set on flickr.

In the past I haven’t usually considered a butcher when shopping for proteins. It has always been something that I have known that I should be doing but the convenience of getting meat from a grocery store is often too great. Recently I have been experimenting with our local butcher to see just how much better locally grown protein can be. Bacon at Safeway costs about 4.50 for a package, and for about the same price you can get a pound at the butcher.

To say that bacon from the butcher is better is an understatement. Not only is it leaner but it is so much more delicious. Don’t let the fattiness of that first picture fool you, when this stuff is cooked most of the fat goes away and you are left with pure bacon joy.

Shots taken with my nikon d90 and tamron 17-50 2.8 lens and a bounced sb-600 flash. Also used a canon g9 for the close up shot.