Socially Nocturnal

Some more shots from the Copenhagen nightlife. It's like truck stops in America. The ones with the most trucks have the best food. In Copenhagen the bars with the most bicycles are the ones you want to be at. I was at (among other places) Mesteren & Lærlingen (The Boss and the Apprentice) in the meat packing district. It's an old bar that the butchers in the meat packing district used to hang out at and now it's a cosy restaurant in the evenings and a throbbing, pulsing bar at night.





There was music pumping away inside, but this guy was parked out front with his vintage Longjohn cargo bike, playing groovy tunes for the crowds hanging out in front of the bar, despite the temperature hovering around zero.






Mesteren & Lærlingen - Flæsketorvet 86. Meat Packing District in Vesterbro.

Night Riding

Copenhagen. Meat Parking District. 2:30 AM. Cafés are closing - time to move on to the bars.

The Nocturnal Role of Copenhagen Bicycles

The bicycle has an integral role in Copenhagen nightlife. Only 40% of Copenhageners own cars so when the surburbanites motor on home after work, we get visions of what our city looks like with hardly any cars. It's especially on weekend nights that the bicycles really rule this town.

Like here in the Meatpacking District - Kødbyen. This is the bicycle parking outside just one of the many bars. All the other bars - in the meatpacking district and the rest of the city feature the same view.


Outside Mesteren og Lærlingen there was a cargo bike parked and it was a cosy place to hang out for a chat.

Or to send text messages, planning the rest of the night's activities, hooking up with friends, or what have you.

All throughout the city, bicycles are in motion all night long.

As are friends of mine, frolicking outside another bar.


It's how you get to where you're going and it's how you get home in the wee hours. And yes, red heels look best with a red bicycle. Duh.

The nightlife in Copenhagen goes all night. Preferably well into the morning. When the birds start singing and the Nordic sun starts to rise, you know it's been a good night out.