A bit of catching up

I've gone through my camera roll and there are tons of little glimpses from the last couple of months. Here are a few;

March 25: I come by Nyhavn on a grey afternoon. I do understand why all tourists gasp when they see this, it must be the most postcard perfect place in Copenhagen.

April 1: We make plans to go to Berlin.

April 2: I go to the cinema with my brother to watch a French film from 1965, and the houses in front of the Cinemateket are lovely as ever, especially in spring evening light.

April 15: I've spent the night in my father's apartment in Østerbro. On my way out to get breakfast I pass by this little lady. It makes me think of my childhood in Paris.

April 17: I'm in Vesterbro and snap these colourful houses on my way.

 April 25: There is a sharp spring light in my living room.

May 5: The summer starts to arrive.

After a movie on May 8th, I look up and am overwhelmed by that special magic that spring fills the city with. It gets me every year, and I fall even more in love with Copenhagen.

The same evening I walk down Elmegade in Nørrebro.

May 9: Tine invites over for dinner in her garden. We drink bubbles and talk shamelessly about private stuff and laugh so hard. The neighbours are in for a treat...

May 13t: We're in Aarhus and take in the view of the city from Salling Rooftop and I walk down memory lane on Mejlgade where I lived from 2008-2009. How long ago it suddenly is...

May 19: We eat at Apollo Bar just off Nyhavn. The food is great - tartare and burrata - but it's still not summer yet so we get too cold and head inside for wine.

 I love this photo of ever beautiful Iben.

The next day is my niece's baptism, and Sølve and Fredericke are by far the coolest dressed guests (they always are).

May 23: I have morning coffee and a vulgar Danish at the Corner Café with Sheila from Canada. She's in Denmark over a few weeks and it's always nice to catch up.

On my way home, I cross the harbour.

May 26: We watch Klaudia and Jean-Luc get married in a little garden in Frederiksberg. I love those girls, we've known each other for 15 years now and we've had so many great experiences together. Witnessing one of us get married was definitely one of them!

May 28: I do my first tourist tour with an American family. I show them around Copenhagen and we're fortunate to have amazing weather and it's such a fun experience!

When we come home from Porto on June 4th, there's the most pastel of views from my father's apartment. I love the beginning of summer!

June 7: We eat sushi outside.

June 9: It's melting hot and I meet Chris for lunch at Auto.

June 10: I bike down Ryesgade after having visited a friend in her new apartment. It's a part of Copenhagen I rarely go to for some reason.

June 12: I go on a spontaneous roadtrip with Tine. We head up the coast and blast Céline Dion, Disney-songs and ABBA loudly from the car and sing along. It's one of my favourite things. When we get back to Copenhagen, I walk by a mirror on my way home and snap a rare selfie.

These days, I spend a lot of time working in my house. This is my view from the table where I write and whenever I'm stuck in a sentence, I look up and see my plants and all the colours and they make me so happy. I love living here.

Back in Börlin

It's hard to believe it's been 2,5 years since I was in Berlin with AnCa. It feels like a year, tops. But despite wanting to see friends in the city, I haven't had the urge to go back for a long time. It might sound strange coming from me who couldn't get enough of Berlin 7 years ago, but now it feels more like a closed chapter, albeit an absolutely wonderful one. It's a different part of me now. But I must say that it was great being back this past weekend. It was just as it should be; not too nostalgic but not too distant either. A perfect mix of feeling at home and feeling like a visitor. A few glimpses;

 It was 25 degrees and full on summer-spring as it can only be in Berlin. Trees everywhere and a lazy mood.

We had breakfast at Silo (Gabriel-Max-Straße 4, Friedrichshain) one morning and it was better than I remember. The menu had changed and it was delicious. The coffee was outstanding, too, though that hadn't changed.

I have never been a big fan of Friedrichshain. I'm more of a Kreuzberg-Neukölln kind of girl and love the U8-vibe just as much as the next hipster. But Karl-Marx-Allee has always meant something special to me and it was good seeing this impressive place again.

We walked through the foodmarket at Boxhagener Platz on Saturday and came back for the fleamarket on Sunday.

Here I am in front of a bush of lilacs that smelled insanely good.

 We went to see Hertha Berlin play Augsburg and I was completely out of my comfort zone. A little like the time I went to Milan to watch Formula 1 with the boys - but this football match grew on me. Particularly because it's fascinating getting a glimpse into a strange world, and because places like those are great for people-watching.

 Saturday night, we met up with Cordula for dinner and drinks and dancing. And ridiculous photos, of course. My god, my party photo game isn't what it used to be.

 Og Berlin, your facades and boxy cars...

On Sunday night, we biked to Kreuzberg to have Best Meal In Bread (just as 2011!) and sit by Admiralbrücke with a beer. When we biked over the tracks by Warschauer Straße, the sun was going down and it sent rays of happiness directly into my old Berlin heart. What a perfect way to say goodbye. It might be 2,5 years until next time but it's OK. Berlin will always be a part of my skin.

Two months

Winter was supposed to be over a few weeks ago but it's holding on, sending frosty winds down the streets that make my eyes water. I'm still wearing my red winter jacket and my phone finally gave up because of the minus degrees. Hopefully, it was winter's last sacrifice. Time is moving fast and slow at the same time and I feel like I'm in my own bubble. Sometimes I manage to capture moments on my phone, other times I let them unfold without having to document them. I kind of prefer the latter. However, these are some glimpses of things caught on the phone:

January 27, 12.37. I meet Chris and Iben for brunch at Ipsen & Co. I was sick but tried to get through the days and it definitely helped being in good company.

February 2, 11.13. I love this corner of my living room.

February 7, 13.23. I'm working and the sun is sort of shining.

February 10, 19.23. Vanessa, Jonas and I are on a food exploration tour in an old villa in Østerbro. It's kind of weird but good fun, and afterwards we go out for pizzas.

February 13, 9.30. Ida and I hadn't seen each other for over a year when we met up at new hipster hub Andersen & Maillard on Nørrebrogade. The coffee was good and the slices of bread enormous. But the best thing was catching up with Ida who's had one crazy year with a documentary out and her fight for body positivism.

 February 16, 13.54. I took this photo of my happy self in a bus on my way to run errands. I had just talked with my mom who said that my niece was on her way. It was such a surreal moment running around town like I usually do knowing that in Aarhus, a new important person was being born.

 Same day, 14.50. I was borrowing my father's apartment that day and had a date night where we celebrated with champagne when we heard the news of Eva's birth in the evening. What an amazing night it was.

February 17, 11.03. We woke up to birds singing and the sun shining over Østerbro. It felt like spring was finally on its way but days later, it snowed and turned icy cold. It's like that every single year.

February 23, 13.08. My mom and I went to Aarhus and we had lunch at my favourite spot in the city, La Cabra. It never disappoints.

February 24, 12.32. Look at those two new parents. "We've fallen even more in love after having Eva," my brother said with a blissful face and I melted a little.

February 27, 14.33. Back in Copenhagen I soaked up every ray of sun I could.

March 2, 12.08. With March came the snow and it seems it hasn't gone away since. But it does brighten up my lovely yellow courtyard.

March 4, 11.34. A leaf is twisting and on its way on the monstera.

March 8, 13.22. And there it is in all its bright green glory. Today, the leaf is as big as the one in the foreground, and it's almost the same colour.

March 9, 13.26. After an interview in one of those small houses, I took a picture as the snow was falling. I was in a bad mood and tired of winter.

March 16, 7.46. I love my early breakfast mornings. This one was at Prolog in Kødbyen with Chris, the day before she left for a 3 week trip to Asia. I can't wait to hear adventures over an early breakfast when she returns.

 March 20, 17.47. The other day, the sky was blue and the sun golden as I walked past Storkespringvandet on my way home.

 March 21, 12.38. I was contemplating taking a nap there.

March 22, 9.42. I went for morning coffee here, my favourite neighbourhood coffee place. The owner knows what I want as soon as I enter, and this morning we talked about Interpol playing over the stereo. He was happy I could recognize it.