Getting Ready to Defrost the Freezer

As I get ready and wrap up my time in Copenhagen it kind of feels like defrosting a freezer, even more so because I know that not too long after I warm up, I'll be heading up to the Himalaya's. So first the sunny warmth of Kerala where I will hopefully warm up physically, mentally and diet wise, as compared to Denmark I expect to have much Hotter and more powerful flavors in India. South India also is home to some of my favorite Indian food so I really am looking forward to the south of India.

I kind of have been trying to simply and slowly wind things down during my remaining days in Copenhagen, partly because that's just one has to do, but also because I'm kind of tired of being here. But as my camera took just more than a week to get back to me I don't feel like I made a mistake of choosing to be in Copenhagen for the length of time that I chose.

I didn't find out until the next day, but on the day of the bike ride around the city it was -6c so I don't feel so bad for feeling like my hands were going to fall off and for really just having to crash that night. I've been hanging out with more people from the Hostel, which mostly came about because on Friday after spending the day observing some roasting at coffee collective and going to the Niels Bohr institute for a tour, I went out at night to just take some photos of the city and decided to wander into a Cafe retro, which I had walked and ridden by numerous times before and where I found some people from the hostel whom I ended up hanging out with. After returning to the hostel I met a few other people, two of which are doing stages at NOMA (it is supposed to be the best restaurant in the world) and just hung out and talk a bit more.

I finished the national museum up Saturday which was nice to do, but the cold and early sunset still really does get to me. Sunday was really just more hanging out with people from Hostel where we got a nice little lunch and then we went back to mother for some coffee. The two Italians that were with us (One of them, Lorenzo, is opening is doing a stage at NOMA and is actually planning on opening up two restaurants this year in Italy) really liked the place so they decided that we would all go to dinner there. There were 13 of us and 11 of were sharing so we ordered one of every pizza, obviously the best way to order and eat. Today I just hung out with Lorenzo, we returned my bike and just wandered around. We ended up going to a Ricco Cafe, which is the coffee roaster I met on my little bike tour with Mette. I don't like to be overly critical, but they really didn't do that great of a job with either my machiato or Lorenzo's latte, nor was my carrot cake any good. The space though was really nice and they have vegetable juices and shakes, but I just felt like for a coffee shop they were a bit lacking. We then ended up wandering back to coffee collective where Lorenzo got a double and felt that in his opinion it was the best in Copenhagen, which I was told and was thinking already myself. We then ended up with a large group cooking a decent meal of vegetable risotto, I got some really good pointers from Lorenzo.

Today as I write this I can really only think about getting off to India, but it feels as if there is no end. Two weeks in one place accomplishing little is perhaps just a bit too much for me.

Oh and for some weird reason the internet was absolutely terrible at certain times, where it wasn't just slow, but where one could simply not connect to the access point. So in the time that it took my computer to connect to the wireless ap I started playing Mahjongg and now I think I will have to break out my grandmother's old mahjongg set when I get back.

Freezing covers us in a cocoon of everything good and bad around us
Defrosting not only gets rid of the cold,
but also gets rid of all of those fowl lingering parts of the world

Here are my final photos from Israel. Soon Photos from Copenhagen to come:

Final-Israel