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Not Familiar With 'Comefly?' Well, They're Flying Nonstop From Florida To Denmark

Every once in a while we seem to come across some new-to-us airline, and this week it’s some kind of charter dealio that’s flying nonstop from Florida to Denmark. You’d think a likely city pair would be something like Miami to Copenhagen, but that’s not the case. This airline is crossing the Atlantic with the sole purpose of linking Fort Myers, Florida and Aalborg, Denmark.

The flights will operate once a week—on Mondays—starting on December 19 and running through April 9 of next year. If you’re looking to hitch a ride just talk to the folks over at Comefly, because they’re the ones in charge. Although, it’s actually Monarch Airlines that are the ones responsibility for doing the flying of the airplanes. Confused? Yes, we were too, especially with the less than awesome English translation of the website—but hey—they tried.

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Don't Wish You Were Here: Copenhagen's Assistens Cemetery

What do Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, and Nobel Prize winning scientist Niels Bohr have in common? They've all taken up a final resting place at Copenhagen's Assistens Cemetery, a lush and serene plot of land in the city's Nørrebro neighborhood. Thanatourists among you will, without a doubt, appreciate the cultural significancy of a visit to Assistens, but even those who lack interest in the great beyond will find solace in its green and leafy surroundings.

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To Kronborg or Not to Kronborg? That is the Copenhagen Castle Question.

This week, Jaunted contributor Heidi Atwal will guide you through a series of food and shopping-rich travels through Copenhagen, a quaint European city trafficked by many a bike and artsy hipster. Stay tuned for suggestions on where to eat, hang, drink, and what to see in the city.

Provided that I'd recently seen a staging of Hamlet at London's Globe Theater, it's appropriate that my recent jaunt to Copenhagen concluded with a trip to Kronborg Castle, the supposed site of the Bard's famous work.

Located in Helsingør, approximately a 35-minute train ride outside of the city, the castle is quite easy to get to from Copenhagen's central station, though the journey itself doesn't afford particularly pretty scenery. (The seaside is mainly obscured by shrubbery en route.)

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Copenhagen's Hyper-Cool Coffee Shop 'Coffee Collective' is for Caffeine Connoisseurs

Where the magic happens: the on-site roaster

This week, Jaunted contributor Heidi Atwal will guide you through a series of food and shopping-rich travels through Copenhagen, a quaint European city trafficked by many a bike and artsy hipster. Stay tuned for suggestions on where to eat, hang, drink, and what to see in the city.

My trip to Copenhagen was largely informed by the insider knowledge of a gracious host who literally pulled out a map of the city upon my arrival, then proceeded to circle and scrawl the names of his favorite food and shopping haunts upon it. This quintessentially cool, moustachioed local shared secrets that no run-of-the-mill guidebook would impart, his word as good as travel gold.

So, when he stated with complete conviction that Coffee Collective, a micro roastery located on Jægersborggade, served "easily Copenhagen's best coffee," my mission was clear: visit and adequately caffeinate at CC by trip's end. And caffeinate I did, stopping by for a black Amerikano on a brief break from trolling for fashion and art finds in Jægersborggade's many boutiques.

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Europe's Longest Shopping Street Finds Competition in Copenhagen's Jægersborggade

This week, Jaunted contributor Heidi Atwal will guide you through a series of food and shopping-rich travels through Copenhagen, a quaint European city trafficked by many a bike and artsy hipster. Stay tuned for suggestions on where to eat, hang, drink, and what to see in the city.

Copenhagen's bounty of design shops, throngs of sharply dressed denizens cycling along city streets, and photographic evidence captured on CPH-centric blog The Locals point toward a simple fact: Danes live, breathe and bleed style. Designers like Henrik Vibskov and Malene Birger have attracted attention to Denmark's ever-expanding fashion industry, while guidebooks direct the retail hungry toward Strøget, Europe's longest pedestrian shopping thoroughfare.

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The Best Affordable Brunches in Copenhagen Right Now

This week, Jaunted contributor Heidi Atwal will guide you through a series of food and shopping-rich travels through Copenhagen, a quaint European city trafficked by many a bike and artsy hipster. Stay tuned for suggestions on where to eat, hang, drink, and what to see in the city.

Copenhagen is home to Noma, currently reigning supreme as the World's Best Restaurant for the second consecutive year. Noma's accolades have heightened the prominence of Nordic cuisine, which is being exported and ravenously explored by foodies the world over.

For all the innovations Noma's elegant, avant garde fare has offered to the culinary world, the city's best food is simply prepared with locally-sourced ingredients whenever possible. No fuss, no foam, just lush yet unpretentious dishes. No meal exemplifies this ethos more than brunch, enjoyed by locals on the occasional weekday as well as weekends.

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Wish You Were Here: Nyhavn Waterfront, Copenhagen

This week, Jaunted contributor Heidi Atwal will guide you through a series of food and shopping-rich travels through Copenhagen, a quaint European city trafficked by bikes mounted by arty hipsters. Stay tuned for suggestions on where to eat, hang, drink and what to see in the city.

Copenhagen's picturesque waterfront is the stuff postcards are made of. Lining the Nyhavn canal are buildings painted in bright hues, along with a string of tourist-clogged restaurants with umbrella awnings, beer-supping customers and a constant flow of seafood dishes streaming from their kitchens. It is often Stop Number One for out-of-towners, listed as a "Must See" in many a guidebook and affording a romantic photo op for the snap-happy.

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Apparently Denmark Has A Custom Of Anonymous Sex With Tourists

You know, we always thought that Southeast Asia and Jamaica were the hotspots for sex tourism, that is until we watched this video advertisement for Denmark. It's a brief bit that appears like an earnest new mother searching for the father of her child, someone with whom she had a random one-night-stand, and he happened to be a tourist.

Now she's got a baby (named August, aww) and it's all thanks to the Danish "custom" of hygge, or hooking up with random foreign strangers. Although Denmark wants to promote its nightlife in this way, we're not so happy about their encouragement of anonymous and unprotected sex, and it sounds like the rest of Denmark agrees with us, since the spot has been pulled thanks to a backlash. But of course, not until it had already gone viral and generated more buzz than the ad agency had ever hoped for.

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