Dancing in the rain in Copenhagen

While Copenhagen was only one of our first stops, it has already cemented it's place as one of my favourites. One of our new Canadian friends from the hostel described it perfectly when he said that the city was the most pleasant place on earth.

From the beautiful pastel coloured buildings and their matching, white, dollhouse shutters, to the unbelievable friendly people who are some of the happiest and most polite I've ever met, you can help but smile as you walk around the streets of this immaculate city.

We were only there for a few days but the weather was perfect and we managed to pack a lot into our stay. The epic climb to the top of Vor Frelsers Kirke steeple was definitely worth the toll it took on our calves the next day, especially when the steps began to spiral around the outside of the tower, giving us a perfect panorama of the city.

We took a beautiful boat tour through the canals and spent afternoons lying by the lake in Christiania, a hippy community and free-for-all village that has been set up in the heart of the city.

But for me one of the best parts of our stay was definitely the friends made along the way. While the hostel was definitely a shock to the system at first with its 66 bed dorms, we soon formed a big international group where strange sayings were swapped and and a ridiculous amount of spaghetti bolognese was cooked.

However it was the last night that will stay with me as truly the highlight of my Copenhagen adventures. The afternoon of our last day saw us sitting outside as a group of Swedish guys played guitar and hilarious cover songs of anything we could think of. We quickly drew a crowd and continued on into the night chatting and dancing until the sun disappeared and was replaced with a sudden downpour of rain. But instead of giving up and heading off to bed I found myself swept up in a crowd of people from all corners of the world as we ran through the city center still dancing and singing at the top of our lungs.

Safe to say that singing the Eurovision winning 'Euphoria' in the torrential rain in Copenhagen square with a bunch of complete strangers is not a memory I'll be forgetting anytime soon.