COMPACT COPENHAGEN

• Can I tell you how compact this city is?  Everything is smaller in size, then crowded and squeezed together in a tight fit.  Except the buildings.  The funny thing is that you have these enormous apartment buildings towering over these little, tiny side streets.  You can't even get a good camera shot because you can't back up far enough.  So here is what I mean:

This is our tiny Opel.  Notice the suicide doors.

This is where you park your Opel.  You get approximately 5 inches leeway between cars.  More or less.  These Danes are masters at squeezing into tiny spaces.  We actually have an apartment parking lot, but same rules apply.

This is where you drive your Opel.  Yes, folks, it's a two-lane street.  Except only one car can squeeze by at a time.  Unless you're a Dane.

More compactness.  This is a shopping cart.  (Laugh here.)

 It does help that the food is packaged small.  This is as large a carton of milk as I've  seen.

             

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It's an obstacle course walking back to the apartment.  You have (from L to R)  restaurant tables, a two-way walk-way, parked bikes, bike lane with lots riders whizzing by and then cars.  Every.  Street.  Bicycles have the right of way.

Pretty apartment building.  Barely could get the shot on the narrow street.