Copenhagen - summer solstice, it's proving hard to leave

Feeling refreshed after a stay with my sister, I  rise early to get four trains to Stockholm. Predicting that Deutsche Bahn ICE trains may let me down, I get on the earliest train to Hamburg. Even this early, the train is late 30 minutes. Fortunately, they change the arrival platform in Hamburg to the opposite one to the connecting train to Stockholm and they delay the Stockholm train. 

It will take approximately 15 hours to get to Stockholm, but a coincidence intervenes. I find out that my friend from Berlin, Emi, is exhibiting her Japanese furniture in Copenhagen and decide to stay there at least one night to enjoy the exhibition. The exhibition is part of the "Three Days of Design" festival which is taking part across the city. I can't think of a better location - she exhibits on a boat on the canal. 

We have pizza (most expensive pizza ever - 25€ for a margarita), which was also on the small size and then after midnight it's time to saddle up and find a wild camping spot. Although not legal in Denmark (unlike the other Scandinavian countries), there are official camping spots just outside the city which are free. Some of these even have a permanent shelter, toilet facilities and even showers nearby. 

The next day is summer solstice (21st June) and I stay in CPH rather than try to make it to the Arctic circle in time for the solstice. It is very warm for CPH in the city (26C) and I just spend the day looking around. In the evening I visit Christiania and happen upon a Soli-Party, with live music, log fires and a large Dave l dance floor, directly next to the river. I get a really cool t-shirt which reads "I don't want to go home" in danish - something the kids in the after school day care say to the teacher, who organised this solidarity party. I leave the party after 2am and head back to the camp site. 

The next day sees the sun beating down once again, so I stay yet another day in CPH. I meet Ramis, a fellow bike packer, at breakfast at the camp site and we hand around the city most of the day. 

In the evening a group of Erasmus students invade the shelter to make fire and chill for the evening. We share stories and Stockbrot (bread made over the fire). This CPH experience really has been difficult to leave.