The Big Move - Phase 2 (Our new home at last)

So finally, after a week in our digs in Christianshavn, the day arrived to make the final leg of our move into our apartment.  It's a lovely place in Østerbrø - for you London residents you'll know what I mean when I say the main drag feels a bit like Northcote Road.  But with a few more useful shops and a bit less self consciousness.  Approximately the same number of babies, small children and sunglasses though.

We love our new apartment and R & T have been hooning around all the space like crazy, the one aspect that dawned on us very quickly, is that living on the 4th floor without a lift, requires good cardio vascular fitness, strong thighs (to carry T and a buggy) and supreme organisation to make sure nothing is forgotten either at the top or the bottom.  We have only had one instance of "daddy, can you get my special toy from the car..."

Fortunately to help us move in, we had the assistance of movers who have clearly done this before and weren't too phased.  Although as our CoI commented as she popped off to work, she passed a man on each landing in various stages of looking a broken sweaty mess.

But, we've been in 5 days now and the 250+ boxes transported from the UK have been reduced to about 20, but that doesn't include the ones we put in our cellar.  If we can't see them, they don't exist.  The flat is taking shape and we are looking forward to visitors soon.

Local eateries we have explored include Joe & the Juice where looking painfully cool is de rigeur and a local pizza takeout, most of which are apparently run by Bulgarians (interesting).  

Things I have learnt about Denmark this week:

1.  An unfurnished apartment includes no lights (hence early trip to Ikea for some)
2.  Ikea in Denmark is similarly hellish to the UK
3.  It takes a lot of research to find a decent supermarket but finally a Super Bruggsen round the corner is likely to do the business
4.  Pack for all weathers - we went out on bright sunshine for a canal tour only to have snow arrive as we were about to step on the boat
5.  Parking charges are fiendishly complicated with 3 different zones in the city and 3 different tariffs during a 24 hour period
6.  A UK TV will need re-tuning to pick up the Danish TV signals
7.  The Danes really love their design, we saw an Arne Jacoben designed petrol station yesterday!

Finally, our highlight of the week was a trip up the coast to the top of Zeeland (didn't take long!) and a stop for a splendid lunch with views at the Strandmøllekroen restaurant in Klampenborg.  Maybe this blog is starting to take a gastronomic slant...