Happy Sunday! 3daysofdesign kicks off in Copenhagen this week, which felt like as good an excuse as any to revisit one of my favorite cities.
I first visited Copenhagen three years ago during a long layover on the way to a wedding in Lithuania. Like any good planner, I arrived with a list of restaurants, museums, and buildings I wanted to see. When I asked my bartender how he’d spend 72 hours in the city, he told me to “just wander.”
It was somewhat frustrating advice at the time. Three days never feels like enough, and I’ve always had a tendency to treat travel like an optimization problem. But I took his advice anyway, and I think he was right.
There are some cities that do need a checklist. Copenhagen certainly has those too, and you should absolutely make time for the Louisiana Museum and take a boat around the canals. But I found the city was at its best in the spaces between destinations.
Use this guide to pick a few anchors, leave room to wander, and don’t worry too much about checking every box. If you’re headed that way and want to know where we’d start, here’s the FIELD GUIDE.
FIELD GUIDES are available to paid subscribers. Each one includes a saved Google Map with every recommendation linked in one place, plus updates as we find new places worth sharing. Planning a trip to Copenhagen (or anywhere)? CONCIERGE@LINEAR-MAGAZINE.COM.
