The Danish Summer

THIS SUMMER HAS BEEN an exceptional one in Scandinavia.

- NITIN CHAUDHARY

On most days, temperature soared in the high twenties, the sun beamed unrestrained from any passing clouds, and the blue waters of the Baltic Sea shimmered underneath. On days like these, Danes, declared the happiest people in the world, pour out on the Strøget, the city’s pedestrian street.

Last week, on one such sunny afternoon, I decided to take a stroll on the Strøget. Denmark had just recently allowed people from southern Sweden in, and I didn’t want to let go of the opportunity to visit one of my favourite cities in the world.