Coming home after Berlin and Amsterdam has pretty much inspired me to make my experience in Copenhagen the best of it. That's why the week before heading off traveling again I decided to get more in touch with the town I live in. It's called Målov. It's a tiny little suburb made up by single-family houses and a housing project, most of which comprise of native Danes. Måløv is considered to be founded in 1193 and has the cutest little church in the world, a bakery, and an oddly large number of hair salons...
It was a nice day and it was the weekend so I texted my friend if she wanted to go on a bike ride. She suggested something even better: given that she lives on the other side of the train line she said she could meet me up in my town and then we can go to hers. It was so nice. Copenhagen is planned on what is called "The Finger Plan," where urban development has sprout from the inner city in different fingers of suburban town, a direct response to the U.S model of urbanization that leaves cities looking like one big urban pancake of suburb after suburb. This means that there are 'wedges' of green space in between developed 'fingers' of open space that goes right into the core of the city. It's a smart way to think about the growth of cities and the over all planning for sustainability. Since my friend lives in one finger and I live in the other it was nice to bike across into the vast nature areas.
Here are some snaps of Måløv church mostly, where we met and headed to her town. It was charming because there had been a wedding that had just happened when I got there. Like literally there was a bride coming out of the door and I saw the rice being thrown. She looked real pretty and the church looked even better. It's nice because all the weddings and masses are open for anyone to go, when I walk from the station to my house I can read the bulletin board of the church and they advertise it and give a brief description of the event. There is even a cute little pond by it where they took their bridal pictures and now that the spring is coming it looks beautiful.
Here are some snaps of Måløv church mostly, where we met and headed to her town. It was charming because there had been a wedding that had just happened when I got there. Like literally there was a bride coming out of the door and I saw the rice being thrown. She looked real pretty and the church looked even better. It's nice because all the weddings and masses are open for anyone to go, when I walk from the station to my house I can read the bulletin board of the church and they advertise it and give a brief description of the event. There is even a cute little pond by it where they took their bridal pictures and now that the spring is coming it looks beautiful.
We then biked across into the neighborhood sand nature reserves, and even made pit stops to check out cool architecture and a chocolate bunny factory. It was fantastic.