Trip to Amager Strand

On that day I started off towards the west and ended up at Amager Strand

There is a little dune in the sea with a curved concrete path.

It was very nice but a bit windy, so it got cold after a while. There are a bunch of large houses to be seen from the beach:

Also you can see the Øresund bridge that connects to Malmö, Sweden:

From high school geography classes I know that this bridge had lead to a lot of growth on both sides and that many people live in Malmö, where it is cheaper to live. This is also due to taxes which are apparently rather high in Denmark, take for instance the 25 % VAT.

After a while I got cold and started to return to the hostel to fetch my warmer gloves. There was a strong wind against my direction of travel, so I had to work up against that. The saddle on my rental bike would not stay as high as I wanted it and slowly descend a few centimeters. It was stable there, so eventually I got tired of adjusting it every now and then and just kept riding with a too low saddle. Although I just did 14 km that early afternoon, it felt rather exhausting.

On the way I saw a lot of new condos:

I was told that the Danish want to have courtyards in their condo complexes, something I can certainly relate to.

And they are building many new apartment buildings in that part of town. A local told me that politicians want to make the city more family friendly and therefore they only build new apartments with at least 80 m² and three rooms. This makes it very challenging for singles and students to find a place to stay.