On the Road: Copenhagen Northwest, beyond the cherry trees

On the Road: Copenhagen Northwest, beyond the cherry trees

Author: Kay Xander Mellish March 19, 2022 Duration: 5:36

It's springtime, and the cherry trees are about to bloom in Copenhagen Northwest, which is usually the only time people who live outside Northwest bother to go there.

Northwest is a working class neighborhood, so much so that the streets are named after working-class occupations.

While other Copenhagen neighborhoods have streets named after kings and queens and generals, Northwest has brick-maker street, and book-binder street, and rope-maker street, and a barrel-maker street.  

But there are other things to see in Northwest besides the cherry trees, which have become a bit of a crowd scene since they were reported on by a national news network.


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