Cycling in Copenhagen tips for tourists: - Stay on the right. - Don’t even try it at rush hour (7-9am, 3-5pm). - Keep your wits about you. - The Harbour Ring Route is a great circular path to follow that shows you the city. Try it! - DO NOT WALK IN THE BIKE LANE: IT IS FOR BIKES.

To be or not to be... today I’m pondering if I will actually get this feature about Hamlet’s castle written or if I will deviate into a long-winded essay that has no place in anyone’s travel pages...

What’s Copenhagen’s pizza of the moment? Find out here... www.timeout.com/restaurants/...

This is more than a shopping guide. It’s a cultural dive into Copenhagen. Oh, and it includes a spot where you can buy a perfume that smells of the Battle of Trafalgar. You’re welcome. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Today seems a good time to repost this story from Denmark. 80 years ago, a town saved the Danish jews from the Nazis, risking their lives to hide them in their homes and take them in their boats overnight to freedom. Collective resistance has a precendent. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

“The White Lotus isn't the first drama to have an outsized effect on the travel industry...But what's interesting right now, in the digital age, is how quickly news about a streamed TV show setting can have an impact.” My latest on BBC Travel today... www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

My MFA Diary. I couldn’t find much about MFA programmes in the UK online so I’m writing a series about the one I’m on. Are they like the US MFAs? What is it like to go on one? Is it worth it? Let’s find out... #writing #amwriting #writers #mfa #creativewriting www.hellolaurahall.com/mfa-diary

Joining in with a bit of #yellow because I love this house in South Greenland. #TravelAddicts #TopTravelPics

Is your city one of Time Out’s 50 best cities in the world? www.timeout.com/things-to-do...

If you’re struggling with your attention span – and I know I am – maybe you should try this... www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

"You could say that perhaps we are looking for new anchors. Travel trends like stargazing, holiday romance, nostalgia tourism, and so on show us that people are searching to be reconnected to something bigger than themselves." Philosophy + travel in my new BBC piece. www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

A special one-off MODERN SCANDINAVIAN today looks at Greenland and what Trump and so many commentators are missing when they turn it into a strippable asset. modernscandinavian.substack.com

Meet the man who kayaked Greenland’s West Coast while eating an ancestral Inuit diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Woke up to snow in Copenhagen today. What a lovely start to the work year.

Hanging out with trees and talking about how slowly they grow is somehow something I love to do now. TL,DR: I went to Lapland with the kids, avoided all the santa schmaltz, went arctic cocooning in the forest and found a state of bliss. www.intrepidtravel.com/adventures/a...

Book recommendations apropos of nothing: Modern Nature by Derek Jarman - just the most staggeringly beautiful memoir about life in the shadow of death, and gardening in the shadow of a power station. The Baby on the Fire Escape by Julie Phillips - valuable portraits of creative motherhood.

My latest, out on Adventure.com, about Deinfluencing travel. Reddit says it best: “Many of us are sick and tired of being treated as endless buying machines instead of people... We don’t need the latest, trendiest things to be happy.” adventure.com/de-influence...

Wrapping up December with some stories about truly inspiring people: one kayaked Greenland while eating only Inuit food, and another is rethinking museums and adding mindfulness to them. It’s a reminder that there are incredible people out there, not just the ones we read about on the front page.

Would you fly in an airship to the North Pole? Because soon you will be able to... www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

My favourite story of the year: about a trip to Greenland to listen to a whale radio station, just published in Beau Monde Traveller. #greenland beaumondetraveler.com/3d-flip-book...

This is a poem for right now. Thanks Joseph Fasano. poets.org/poem/student...

Absolutely delighted: Norway has suspended deep sea mining "It has been truly embarrassing to watch Norway positioning itself as an ocean leader, while planning to give green light to ocean destruction in its own waters." - Greenpeace Norway's Haldis Tjeldflaat Helle. www.bbc.com/news/article...

In other news, I was at the Nordic Food Innovation Summit yesterday, and there are exciting things happening. Claus Meyer: “The fight against climate change and the combined health crisis can be won in the kitchen and around the dining table.” Ambitions are huge; projects are coming. Soon.

My Alchemist experience last night – it’s not a dinner, it’s so much more – was utterly mind-bending. I ate my own face. I ATE MY OWN FACE. I don’t know what else there is to say. For a feature on the head chef, Mr Rasmus Munk, just voted The Best Chef in The World, for Artful Living next year.

Old school writing advice: Always take notes, and always save your own version before you submit text into a CMS. I am doing queries for a book chapter I wrote this summer, and I would be LOST without my notes. My brain is fried. I remember nothing. If it’s not written down, it does not exist...

Not mentioned here, but we’ve had this alert in Denmark too and are prepping... www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Posting one of my favourite photos of the year, from my summer trip to Greenland. I started taking my photography seriously last year. I still have a long way to go, but I’m working hard on it. I figured that if I’m going to beautiful places, I might as well photograph them as well as write...

Some things I’m working on today: - Writing a story about sustainable aviation - Writing about a chef-adventurer whose changing how we look at food - Preparing for a trip to the Arctic during the polar night - Pitching stories for 2025 already. What are you guys up to?

Coming up later this week on Modern Scandinavian, my substack about life in northern Europe... - Greenland’s new airports! - Travelling without a phone! - Underrated travel destinations! - Train travel in Europe! - And some things that have caught my eye... modernscandinavian.substack.com

December is next week! Here’s my best ideas for a festive trip Copenhagen: - The new ice rink at Kongens Nytorv - A cold dip and a sauna at Copenhot - Tivoli Xmas market - Saunagus at Glæcier - Shopping at Louisiana - A wild walk on Amager strand beach - Gløgg at Ark

I’m new here and thought I’d introduce myself. I’m an English #journalist, #author and #travelwriter based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and I write stories about #Scandinavia, the #Arctic & the #Nordic region. I write about travel, food, culture & lifestyle. Here are some examples…

I just came back from a much longed-for trip to my hometown. That Liam and Noel poster made me cackle...