Ian Rambles
We were all taken with Copenhagen and enjoyed our stay - despite it being our last stop and our trip home being delayed by a couple of days!
We found the best bike rental shop for the world - CPH - and rented five bikes very reasonably. Copenhagen is well organised for bikes with bike lanes everywhere, much like Holland - but with broader thoroughfares than Amsterdam.

Fiona's Journal

From Stockholm it was an overnight train journey to Malmo where we changed train for Copenhagen. Our original itinerary allowed us two nights there but we could not get a ferry booking (at a sensible price) until September 30th so we ended up with four nights. This proved to be a real bonus as we loved this city and our 12 storey, tower block HI hostel there. Bicycles are almost as prevalent there as they are in Amsterdam and cycle lanes are clearly marked, wide and respected by traffic, throughout the city so we hired five bikes. They came from an admirable, and very friendly, two-man bike-rental business, the bulk of whose profits go towards supplying bikes to remote parts of Africa; mine was an old-fashioned, very upright, black Raleigh, with broad leather seat and wicker basket, on which I felt rather elegant. Henceforth, we cycled everywhere in Copenhagen and grew to love it.
Our hostel was a sociable place and in the communal kitchen we often got chatting to people. Ian met a German, an American and a Frenchman (no this is not the start of a bad joke!) and invited them to eat with us on our last night. He cooked big pot of pasta with a variety of sauces and a very sociable, multilingual, animated evening of conversation ensued. I wish we had managed this more often during our travels and realised that it only happened because all parties had a pretty good command of English. When we travel again I think we should chose one country to explore in detail and make a concerted effort to learn the language before we go. The question is, which country?!

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