The colours of Copenhagen
What's even better than ticking a new country off your list? Ticking 2 new countries in one trip! Even better if it's a spontaneous decision once you get to country number 1. My friend Alice and I had booked to stay 3 nights in Copenhagen, and it wasn't until we landed and the guy at border control jokingly made us promise not to go to Sweden while we were there. Which got the cogs turning and spoiler alert, we ended up seeing both beautiful countries in one jam-packed weekend. We'd arrived bright and early and our first stop was at the hotel to drop off our bags. We were staying at the Ascot hotel which was in such an ideal location, right next to Tivoli gardens. It also had a really gorgeous cocktail bar! Because we were already basically right next to it, we decided to spend our first day at Tivoli gardens. Which was a perfect case os serendipity because unbeknownst to us, it was closing for over a month on the Sunday to prepare for their Halloween fest. And we went ...