Strøget (the walking street) feels more and more like a tourist trap with each year that passes. I only manage to get to Copenhagen once every five or so years but I guess that's how I notice the gradual changes. From feeling like a rather exciting street in the early 80s with cafés, restaurants, and bars intermingled with shops, it's now almost all shops. A restaurant I ate at 5 years ago is gone. A lovely café at Amagertorv that was there for decades is being replaced by Louis Vuitton (it's already across the square but moving.) The experience of sitting in a café with linens and silverplated cutlery (verus a paper cup and plastic spoon from a coffee chain) overlooking Amagertorv is priceless. But that's disappearing. Obviously, it's capitalism that rules but I am surprised the local government does not do more to preserve the atmosphere of the area. Thank goodness there are still a few gems in Copenhagen if you look for them. Just not at Strøget.

Stroget deserves credit for being the first trafficked street turned into a pedestrian mall in all of Europe. Now it is full of chain stores and souvenir shops and is over crowded with tourists. The surrounding streets however have much more local and interesting shops and are worth a visit.

Booteefool, full of very very nice peoples. Danish is a strange language sounds like a combination of Scandinavian, pula, hoola, latin and a Asian languages. Some Danes dye their hairs not blond. The non males wear byooteefool head scarfs and are very conscious of sanitation etc.