Copenhagen Weekend

19.09.15 — Copenhagen

So, in yet another bout of travel news, I’ve just landed back on British soil after a weekend spent gallivanting around Copenhagen once again! If you haven’t already, check out my previous blog post from my January visit, and then carry on and enjoy the sights…

We begin with the obvious news, which is that me, Beth, Martin & Em headed on down to the picturesque and grossly busy tourist destination of Nyhavn, the harbour which Copenhagen is famed for. As beautiful as it is, we opted not to spent too long wandering up and down it’s cobbled streets, for we had much more to see.

On the first night, after meeting up with Iz who’s currently working out there, we headed on down to the market of Nørreport for some tea and ice cream. I tried a delicious fiske frikadelle, basically a ball of fish meat, with some rye bread (a Danish staple) and some kind of cold mashed potatoes with pickle in them. It was gorgeous!

Fiske frikadella og rugbrød — Fiske frikadelle og rugbrød

The next day we set off to take a guided tour of Copenhagen, as Em and Martin had never been, however I had to bail halfway round due to a mysterious new illness I began to suffer from (turns out it was heartburn). I did, however, get to see much of the city before I had to go and lie down…

On my final day (Sunday), we headed over into an area in the north known as Nørrebro, where Izzy is currently living and working. A more alternative, student-filled area, Nørrebro is a great place for travellers wanting to wander off the tourist-beaten track and find some real gems.

However on our way, we incidentally ran into the path of the Copenhagen Half Marathon which just so happened to be taking place, and so were forced to detour our way through the city and wander over some damp confetti and past piles of plastic cups. I didn’t quite fancy joining in the running.

Cups, cups everywhere, but not a drop to drink

Once we’d managed to make it to Nørrebro, we stopped off at a new luxury toast café for some of the most delicious toast sandwiches I’ve ever tasted, and wandered round it’s small streets looking for a Coffee Collective, where we stopped for a coffee and some kanelsnagel (cinnamon rolls).

We also took a visit to the Rundetaarn, or Round Tower, back in the city centre. Hiking once more up it’s spiral ramp, we took in the panoramic views of the city, before heading back down for a fresh smoothie in Joe & The Juice.

All too soon, however, it was time to leave good ol’Copenhagen and make back for Manchester Airport. I managed to fit in one last evening stroll before I left, before devouring a “breakfast pizza” in Copenhagen Airport before my flight back. I am not sure whether there’s such thing as “breakfast pizza” but it sure tasted good, and I shamelessly finished the whole thing myself.

Remember: You can read about my previous trip to Copenhagen in January 2015 by clicking here.

Wandering Through Todmorden

19.09.15 — Todmorden

Just last week my sister Ellie headed off on her Gold Duke of Edinburgh expedition down in Wales, and so me, my mum and dad felt we should join her in spirit and set off for a wander through our nearest Yorkshire town: Todmorden.

It was a lovely clear evening, and I naturally brought along ‘Jez’, the name I’ve given to my trusty Canon 700D. We mainly just followed the path of the canal, and I snapped a few photos along the way…

As we hit the half an hour mark, my watch gave me a gently buzz and reminded us that we should turn around. Wandering back was much more picturesque, as you can see…

Once we’d arrived back near the car we made our obligatory stop off at Grandma Pollard’s Fish & Chip Shop, where I once again sat by the canal and enjoyed a beautiful fish and chips made by the old man Grandad himself. It was delicious, and I stopped only to appreciate this duck as he swam by on his way.

Website Updates Coming Soon

18.09.15 — Burnley

A quick update (see: warning) to let you all know that my site shall be having a bit of work done on it over the next few weeks, and so some things may not work as expected or may be shifted around slightly! I’m hoping to add some exciting new pages and features such as a travel section, dedicated photography area, as well as getting my portfolio up to scratch and generally updating anything that’s evaded my attention over the last year or so of my site running.

I’ll be sure to keep you all informed as best as I can, however if you find something which seems to have gone horrendously wrong, it’s probably me being an idiot – so do feel free to get in touch at any point. I shall post any updates as I go along, and invite a few of you all to test out new features for me, and will be back with a long post in a few weeks looking over everything that’s changed/been added.

Until then, it’s back to the daily grind. I write this from a fancy new MacBook in Leeds’ Apple Store, whilst waiting for my dad to turn up so we can run off and eat Five Guys and watch The Glass Menagerie at the West Yorkshire Play House this evening. Exciting!

Rhythm & Blues & More

17.09.15 — Burnley

Just before jetting off to Copenhagen this weekend (a post for which will be coming very soon), me, my dad and sister wandered off down to Colne for the Great British R&B Festival. Naturally, I took the camera along – but even before we set off, the sky treated me to a display of sheer beauty right outside my bedroom window, arcing over Burnley.

After I somehow (given my total lack of vehicular control) managed to perilously park our car on what felt like a 45º incline, we scrambled up the cobbled hills of Colne and began weaving our way between angry taxi drivers, drunk punters and hot-dog stalls.

With all the pubs and clubs overflowing, we decided to keep on wandering and soak up the atmosphere as the sun set. Passing a church where me and my dad had stopped for a bacon buttie at last year’s festival, we were soon wandering past an overflowing Weatherspoon’s and to the extremities of the festival.

Ellie looking super happy to be here right now

We did take time to stop off at a Briggs family favourite, of course: the legendary Jim’s Café. It was packed out, however, much unlike the quiet family meal we’d had just the week before, so we took a couple of (very bad, hence their non-inclusion here) photos and headed back to the car.

After such a busy evening of wandering round and doing next to nothing except clicking a shutter button, I concluded that I most certainly deserved a bath, and so lobbed a rather vibrant Lush Bath Bomb in the tub and clambered in. Their Intergalactic bomb was amazing – I couldn’t help myself but dash to grab my camera and take a photo. I leave you here with it’s beguiling blue and pink swirl…

Film Aus Deutschland

09.09.15 — Herzogenaurach

As you may have seen, a while back I jetted off with Izzy and Rhea to visit Luisa in her homeland of Germany! You can, of course, head back to have a nosey at the link above, but I’ve just got round to scanning some film photos we took whilst traversing Berlin and dancing away at the Bierfestivals – just keep on scrolling…

First up we’ve got some photos from Luisa’s hometown of Herzogenaurach, where I made good and proper use of my German-made Praktica MTL50 which I picked up in Leeds for a mere £25.

Before long, however, we’d wound up at the Kerwa beer festival, where I summoned upon the trusty Boots Disposable camera to take some snaps…

We then, as per my older blog post, bundled ourselves onto a coach up to Berlin, where I took the next round of photos. These, again, are on my trusty Praktica.

And so concludes my collection of Film Aus Deutschland (film photos from Germany). As I mentioned before, you can check out the original post here for a more in-depth rundown of what we got up to. Tschüß!