Neighborhood Loppemarked!

It feels like it’s been ages and ages (In actuality only about 3 weeks) since I wrote and published a blog post. However, I’ve been taking pictures and THINKING CONSTANTLY about what I’m going to write, all the exciting (to me at least, still not sure it’s so exciting to others) things I’m going to share, fun pictures I’m going to post. But then, I hop on my awesome (2nd hand) road bike for a 30 mile bike ride, or I stroll around Copenhagen (gotta get my 10,000 steps in), or go grocery shopping (multiple trips per day required due to limitations of grocery shopping by bike), or meet a friend for coffee. There are also cute cat/animal videos ya’ll keep posting on FB. Or hilarious twitter hashtags trending: #RevolutionaryWarAirports, #30to50feralhogs to name a couple of the funniest. Then 8pm (my bed and reading time) rolls around and lo and behold another day has passed and no blog post…

But today, I’m just going to write something. My plan this coming week, of course, is to post daily and catch up with sharing all the things we’ve been up to. Unless, the weather is decent (above 10C and not pouring), I commit to being a Boy Scout mom, and soccer team parent liaison. In all cases, chances of following through with catching up on blog posts is reduced by approximately 90%.

Yesterday (Saturday) was a clear and beautiful beautiful day in Copenhagen. Very few clouds, zero bursts of rain the whole day. I have yet to find a weather app/weather station that can give me an accurate forecast but all last week it was cloudy and would randomly rain (pour) every hour or so. I’m almost to the point of giving up trying to plan my outings or bike rides around the weather. But not quite. But anyhow, yesterday was beautiful.

I was trying to figure out what we could do and then MBH had the brilliant suggestion of going out in search of flea markets (Loppemarked – super popular in Copenhagen and all over the place). The oldest especially, loves them (her allowance money only goes so far for new purchases) and of course, given my (probably a bit unhealthy) obsession with reducing consumption and living sustainably and climate change, I love them too. I know there’s thing about going into Target or Costco or Wegmans or *insert name of store here* for $15 worth of stuff and leaving with $250 worth of stuff. I walk into those stores and kind of cringe, buy what I went there for and leave as quickly as possible. But 2nd hand stores/flea markets are a whole different ballgame…My oldest also tells me you can really only find out about them in Copenhagen if you’re connected to the right people on FB.

But, I did a quick google search and learned that googling “Fleamarket” is quite productive. I found this page and decided to check out the Frederiksberg Loppemarked. So, I googled the route to get there, checked, re-checked, and checked weather.com. Then checked again. Then I repeated this process with AccuWeather and Weather Underground and Yr.No. It all looked good. Then we planned out the bags and bikes and racks we needed to have so we could haul any purchases back. Rechecked to make sure the market was going to be open. Did some research into what we might explore in the neighborhood around the market. And so on and so forth. The rabbit hole of google for such an excursion here can go very very very deep.

And THEN, after ALL this planning and google research and (99% of the time, useless) weather page monitoring (but thankfully not yesterday!) , we walked right outside our front door and turns out our whole neighborhood was a loppemarked. I’m sure it was posted on the neighborhood FB page, but it’s all in Danish so I don’t pay attention (clearly I should, and just use the brilliant google translate app with the camera).

Here are some of the things we acquired.