Elegant squares, fine museums and galleries, old buildings restored with a sense of style, open spaces, green parks, and activity on the streets, urban planning in a favor of cyclists and pedestrians – all it makes Copenhagen a city not to be missed. But what I really liked is its horizontal skyline, broken only by the spires and towers of the churches and castles. I shall say it’s a bustling city on a human scale.

One of the most enjoyable places to experience in the capital of Denmark is Nyhavn, which literally means ‘New Harbor’. Once a busy commercial port packed with sailors, ladies of pleasure, and pubs, today’s Nyhavn – with its multi-colored buildings – is a picture-postcard spot dotted with old schooners and waterside restaurants and cafes. A fairy-tale storyteller Hans Christian Andersen penned number of works while dwelling at no. 20 and no. 18.

We’d very gladly have stayed in Copenhagen a day or two more, but we needed to press on, so we said our goodbyes, and in a space of less than an hour transited to Sweden’s third-largest city – Malmö, that lies across the European’s longest combined rail-and-road bridge – the Øresund Bridge.