{"id":4161,"date":"2009-04-10T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/04\/10\/looking-for-tips-on-trip-to-northern-europe-cities\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T09:37:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T13:37:31","slug":"looking-for-tips-on-trip-to-northern-europe-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/04\/10\/looking-for-tips-on-trip-to-northern-europe-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for tips on trip to northern Europe cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3649\/3383670830_f4161324ac.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I made a quick post about a short trip I was taking out west to Calgary and Vancouver. I received a handful of good tips from Spacing Toronto readers on neighbourhoods and urban-ish type things to check out (a post or two from that trip will be coming shortly). I&#8217;m off on another trip in a few weeks and I thought it would be worthwhile asking again.<\/p>\n<p>This time, my trip takes me to a handful of great European cities: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copenhagen\">Copenhagen<\/a> in Denmark, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malm%C3%B6\">Malm\u00e0\u00b6<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gothenburg\">Gothenburg<\/a> in Sweden, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamburg\">Hamburg<\/a> in Germany. I&#8217;m also stopping over in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reykjavik\">Reykjavik<\/a>, Iceland for 4 days thanks to the deal I got on my Iceland Air plane ticket. It seems that since their economy bottomed-out in the late fall of 2008, there is a real need to have foreigners visit Iceland. Things are cheap there now, or at least they are in relative terms to Iceland&#8217;s extremely high cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m spending a total of 22 days days overseas, with the majority spent in Copenhagen and Malmo (10 days). I&#8217;m interested in all things related to transit, bike, walking, architecture, urban design, waterfront, and sustainability. You know, all the stuff we&#8217;re fascinated with here at Spacing. I&#8217;ve done my research on these places and there are obivous things I&#8217;m going to hit (such as the pedestrian malls and wicked bike infrastructure in Copenhagen), but I can easily miss great destinations overlooked by guide books and travel blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave me suggestions in the comment section. I hope to make numerous blog posts from these cities, so the more topics I have to cover the better it is for all of us. If you think I should meet-up with someone in particular in these cities (because of their knowledge or specialty) you can also email me directly at <a href=\"mailto:matt@spacing.ca\">matt@spacing.ca<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo of Copenhagen Str<\/em><em>\u00e0\u00b8<\/em>get pedestrian mall by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pwcasellini\/3383670830\/\">Pete Cassellini<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I made a quick post about a short trip I was taking out west to Calgary and Vancouver. I received a handful of good tips from Spacing Toronto readers on neighbourhoods and urban-ish type things to check out (a post or two from that trip will be coming shortly). I&#8217;m off<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/04\/10\/looking-for-tips-on-trip-to-northern-europe-cities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Looking for tips on trip to northern Europe cities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[661,522,677,483,429,11875,3289,11878,21,11879,11874,1295,19,11876,54,11877],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-calgary","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark","tag-germany","tag-hamburg","tag-iceland","tag-malmo","tag-northern-europe","tag-other-cities","tag-pete-cassellini","tag-reykjavik","tag-sweden","tag-toronto","tag-travel-blogs","tag-vancouver","tag-wicked-bike-infrastructure"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Looking for tips on trip to northern Europe cities - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/04\/10\/looking-for-tips-on-trip-to-northern-europe-cities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking for tips on trip to northern Europe cities - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A few weeks ago, I made a quick post about a short trip I was taking out west to Calgary and Vancouver. 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