For our first two months here we're living in Lyngby, which is a smallish town about six miles north of Copenhagen. For the time being, we are living in university housing and in January we'll have to find a place on our own, hopefully in the city of Copenhagen. Before we came, we had received conflicting advice from first a Dane and then a former post-doc in Denmark as to whether it would be better to live in Copenhagen or in Lyngby, where Adam works. Now that we have been here a while we would perhaps equate the two to San Francisco and Walnut Creek. Not very many Americans would
live in San Francisco and commute to Walnut Creek- just like not many Danes would live in Copenhagen and commute to Lyngby. The city is more expensive, more crowded, and less quaint than the town of Lyngby. However, for two Americans who don't speak Danish, Copenhagen offers many better opportunities in the way of English-speaking clubs, movies and art, churches, and social settings for us to get involved with. We also are excited to try living in a big city. For the meantime, Lyngby is wonderful- it is a quaint, upscale, mid-sized town with lots of shopping and cafes and a well-developed downtown area (and as you see, one cafe has a name that is rather close to our hearts- the translation is "Cafe Me and Annie").
Also, it has a beautiful park called Dyrehavn (animal park) which constitute the former royal hunting grounds. Consequently, it has beautiful scenery as well as many different types of animals. We've heard the park is most beautiful after a frost, so that is one reason to look forward to the weather getting colder!
