It has been a week now since we arrived in Copenhagen from Houston. We were on different flights to Frankfurt (don’t ask), but all three of us (including Gretchen) flew on the last leg together. We picked Gretchen up in over-sized luggage and she didn’t look to un-happy with her experience. After a quick stop at customs to check that Gretchen’s paper’s were in order we were off to our temporary apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen. A quick shop at the local shop for essentials and a takeaway Thai for dinner, it wasn’t long before we were all asleep on the sofa before 8pm.
The weather so far has been relatively dry (compared to Scotland), but hovering around 0c and some occasional snow, but very bearable, well maybe for me. However Gretchen has been loving the snow in Fælledparken, and has been dancing around like a puppy. Since she was born in South Texas, and then lived with us in Houston, I am sure that this is the first time she has ever seen snow.
Our walks have also taken us around the lakes, which are frozen at the moment. Gretchen keeps wanting to jump onto the ice and chase the ducks and swans, but again I don’t think she knows that ice is just frozen water and she would hate it if she fell in.
Both of us are now more like proper ‘Copenhageners’. I have a borrowed bicycle from one of Emily’s Houston colleague's father, who lives just around the corner from us, and Em has one from an ex-Houston colleague that now lives in Copenhagen too. We have also sorted out our bank account and more importantly our CPR number, which without you can’t do anything in Denmark.
Last, but not least, we went flat hunting yesterday. We saw a range of apartments from modern to old and large to small, and in the end we have settled on an apartment near Sankt Thomas Plads in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. We don’t get the keys until the beginning of March, which is just as well as our container won’t arrive from Houston until then at least.
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