Strøget (“Stroh-yay”) is a collection of streets in Copenhagen, and at 1.1 kilometers, the longest pedestrian shopping area in Europe. We ventured out early in the morning, so had to deal with delivery trucks and an occasional bicycle, but loved what we saw. The photos below don’t really need explanations, so I’ll just keep quiet and let you enjoy the walk.
Bikes were everywhere in Copenhagen. You really had to watch out for cyclists because they come roaring out of nowhere. Copenhagen is known as the European Green Capital and its goal is to have 50% of people cycling to their place of work or education in 2015.
Next up: Tallinn, Estonia.
Great weekend, everyone!
{carole}
Pearls & Prose 
Great shots – what a cool place. I am so jealous of the bicycle culture there.
Thanks for sharing.
And thanks for commenting!
I thought Copenhagen was very cool and wish I could have spent more time there.
We don’t have a bicycle culture here – I’m not even using it anymore it’s so dangerous and the city is smaller than Copenhagen. In Germany it’s pretty well too.
I didn’t know about it having the longest pedestrian street. Interesting. It sure looks nice. Very clean as well.
We have bike lanes all over here too, but everyone drives so fast I wouldn’t want to bike in traffic.
I was very struck by how clean all the cities were on this trip.
Loved the pictures Carole – look forward to Tallin. We have some great bike trails here, although we have to drive to get to them, and we only bike in fall and winter – just too hot. Hope you are fully recovered
Thanks so much, MB. Feeling a lot better now. 🙂
I am intrigued by the door painting that depicts what looks like a South American native woman – any idea why that was there?
Looked like going out early provided a great opportunity to take uncrowded pictures – all lovely.
Have no idea, Meg. It was just there.
Yes, it was good to be out before all the people showed up.
Good for Copenhagen for encouraging people to use bicycles more. Though I can’t tell you how many times I took my life into my hands just stepping off the curb when I was in Amsterdam. 🙂
I really enjoying this tour and it looks like you had the streets to yourself. I hope you got to eat some of those strawberries. They look delicious!
Oh Jackie, you and bicycles. 🙂 We almost got mowed down twice–they bicycle really fast there!
Wish I could say we had some strawberries, but no time, alas.
Beautiful, Carole.
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Hey, thanks! Good to see you here!