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| View up my street |
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| Other buildings in my complex |
My apartment is composed of only five rooms: Bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, entry foyer and 'lounge' which has been made into another bedroom and is where my roommate sleeps. This means that I have to walk through his bedroom every time I need to use the bathroom or kitchen. What makes it worse is that the floor creaks something wicked. As you can imagine, I have learned which bits are less creaky than others, something which is important when roommate gets home from a big night out at 6am, and I get up at 9am to start my day.
My roommate is a really nice Italian from the island of Sardinia. We seem to get along quite well, and have not had any major arguments etc. Just the other night in fact, I sampled some Italian liquer that he reckons you can't buy outside Italy. It was quite nice, really herby with a hint of aniseed. He also made me a Campari Rosso and Martini mix. That was very dry and a little bit peppery. Quite refreshing though.
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| View from Kitchen to my room |
The laundry is a couple of buildings over from mine. It costs about $2.50 for a wash, and $1 for half an hour's use of the dryer. The machines are all front-loader Miele.
The view from my apartment consists of more apartment buildings, a sports field and a prison. Don't worry though, Danes aren't that likely to break out of prison because apparently five years is a very harsh sentence, so most are much shorter.
At the end of my street is a huge cemetery that takes 30 minutes to walk a circuit of. Lots of local Danes and quite a few of the other International students who also live around here use it as a jogging track.
There are two train stations within walking distance and five supermarkets within 20 minutes walk or so. The central city is just 10 minutes away by train.
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| View from apartment. Prison on left |
I will finish on this note: some of my neighbours are really weird. I ran into these two guys at the laundry who ended up spending 4-5 hours doing washing. They were drunk as skunks (probably didn't help) and when one found out I was a law student, he was like 'sweet, I'll hire you to defend me if I ever get sent back to prison'.
Oh My God.
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| View down my street. |
Hey Ciaran, I know this comes really, REALLY late but since you used to live in Tranehavegard, can you give any tips how to find the bloody place? My address is 2450 and room number is 27 and from what I've seen on google street view, well it looks like I'll be having lots of fun trying to find my apartment.
ReplyDeleteHello! That's all good! I totally hear you, I had much the same experience.
DeleteSo on your material it may list an address that looks something like mine did:
Tranehavegard 22, 3, 1041 (or just -41)
Copenhagen SV 2450.
The second line is easy to understand. 2450 is your postcode, the SV is what part of Copenhagen you're in - Syd-Vest (South-West).
The first line is read as follows: Building/door number (22), Floor (3), apartment number (1041). The access doors to each apartment building will have a number above it. Depending on the building design, there will either be a series of such doors on the long side of the building or just one at each end, like mine. That's the first number you look for.
If your building is like mine, go through the access door, then go up to the third floor (floor is 'salg' in Danish from memory), then look for an apartment door with your name on it. They also have an apartment number written in teeny tiny numbers above the door as well.
If the building is the other style, with the access doors along the long side the address will have a bunch of random letters on that first line (I don't know what they mean, only the postman does). In that case, just look for the big door number (27), then look beside the door. There you will find a pad which shows the name of the occupant of each apartment that door allows access to. Just look for your name there. Once through the door, just wind your way up the flight of stairs. You'll find an apartment door on each landing - look for the door with your name on it.
Does any of that make sense? It will once you're there.
My suggestion is to take the A or E train to Sydhavn station, then make your way down Enghavevej past the Netto supermarket, to Bavnehoj Alle. Turn left there and walk about 200m. Your apartment should be on the right hand side somewhere in one of the dark brown/red brick buildings.
There are signposts around that area with door numbers on them that indicate where to go, so that helps a bit. When I first arrived I had to enlist an Italian to help me find where I had to go!
And to answer the question that you will eventually need to answer - the communal laundry is accessed through Door 31, down the stairs to the basement then turn right. It is at the end :) Your building key will allow access to the laundry.
Hope this helps!