Sunday Bike Ride

After three weeks of walking around, we finally decided to rent some bikes to get the full Copenhagen experience.  There are many bike rental places to choose from.  After a little research, we both opened monthly accounts with Bycyklen (City Bikes), which is based on a checkout system.  There are more than 100 "docking station" locations around town where you can find their distinctive white bikes.  Each bike has a tablet mounted on the handlebars.  You just log in with your account to check out the bike, and then you're on your way!

It's all very high tech.  Last night, Kevin had logged into the website and plotted a route the the beach area near the airport.  Once we checked out our bikes, his bike downloaded his route for display on the screen.  It didn't work perfectly (we had to supplement with google maps on Kevin's cell phone) but it was still helpful to see the map on the screen in front of you.

Another cool thing about the bikes is that they have an electric motor assist that makes it almost effortless to pedal.  Very handy when going up hills, or if you are just plan lazy like me you can just leave it on all the time.

We passed several beaches along the way, and they were packed with Danes enjoying their sunny Sunday.  I especially liked this awesome wooden swimming pier.  Out at the end of the pier is an area where you can lay out a towel on a bench and jump right into the water and you never even have to get sand between your toes.

We ended up biking eleven miles today.  I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to check out and return the bikes, and it actually works out to be cheaper than the bus if you are just using it to get from point A to point B.  We'll definitely be doing some more biking before we leave Copenhagen!