Top 10 ways to celebrate Danish Christmas

Whether you are planning to spend Christmas with friends, you are visiting a Danish family, you should be prepared to experience it in the traditional Danish way. The University Post wants to help you out with a list of the most characteristic elements of the Danish Christmas month.

10. Economy meltdown

Top 10 crazy date ideas, part 2

5. Cemetery chillin'

Locals who hang out at the city’s cemeteries spook out many people unknown to this custom. Old and young, all Copenhageners find it completely normal to eat, drink, play, and tan next to graves.

Join in on the morbid fun by inviting your crush for a walk at Assistens Kirkegård, a nice cemetery in the centre of Nørrebro. Bring some coffee or a snack. There’s plenty to look at, like other people drinking beer, smoking Mary Jane, or making out next to some granny’s grave.

Top 10 crazy date ideas

You are probably a star in front of the mirror, but out in public you eat your words. Your heart beats away like you’ve just finished a marathon when you see your certain someone. Inviting the person out for coffee is simply too boring.

If you want to impress, here is what you do. You look through our 10 crazy date ideas and decide on one of them. As they say, pain is a reflex but courage is a choice. So grab yourself in the balls or somewhere more decent, and get ready to be wild at heart and blow your crush away.

10. Bonnie and Clyde

Top 10 Copenhagen digital hotspots, part 2

5. Guide: spottedbylocals.com

Top 10 Copenhagen digital hotspots

10. Practicalities: thecopenhagenbook.dk

A comprehensive guide that will stop you fearing the small troubles of life in the city. What sets this site apart from the standard Copenhagen tourist guides is its appeal to diverse budgets and interests. Even better, you can find a directory of practical information, such as babysitters, doctors and even a guide to taxation. The tax section is in English, and much more comprehensible than anything the Danish tax office can give you. A key to access everything you need to know for a functioning daily life in the city.

41 reasons why Danes are so strange

International students foreign to the loony whims of Danes were asked to seriously ask stupid questions. At an orientation for new international students, they responded to our stupid question request with some really, well, stupid questions. Could I go to class naked? Why are there so many cows in Copenhagen? How do I get the phone number of the cute University Post editorial assistant?.

We were at another orientation meeting last week. And we asked our new students what they considered strange in Denmark and among Danish natives.

Top 10 places to find love

10. Flirty Friday bars

Catch some love on Friday nights when innocent student cafés turn into flirty Friday bars!

Nearly every faculty has a café or bar where students can pre-game on Friday nights, starting as early as 4pm.

Take a trip to Amager and try out the fun bars at the old university of Copenhagen (KUA). Consider drinking a nice chilled beer while winning against the university‘s most passionate table-football players at Café17 (KUA, 17.02.).

Or dance wildly with a stranger on the tables at Nordiske Kaffebaren (KUA, 22.0.61).

Copenhagen shorts: Best music video

It was only recently that the University Post nominated its best short videos. But in the rush to publish, we forgot one that surely deserves an honourable mention.

So here it is, our nomination for the best music video:

Best Copenhagen short videos

With the Danish movie ‘In A Better World’ winning an Oscar for best foreign language film, the world is wondering whether Copenhagen is the next Bollywood or Hollywood.

Well, we at the University Post certainly think it is. So we have decided to present its independent video scene, which is rich in student and exchange student productions, but also in quirky, but slick, productions from communications professionals.

So without further ado, these are the videos that have won this time round in the different categories:

Best Danish course video

Classic: Top 10 things to do before you leave ...

From cheap dinners to Roskilde Festival, there is a long list of ‘musts’ that you just have to try before leaving Copenhagen. Here is the University Post’s Top 10 pick:

See the photo story here.

10. Watery ride
You do not need a touristy and expensive boat trip to see Copenhagen from the water. Just use the public transport boats like the Danes.

For a single ticket, Harbour Buses take you from the Citadel (Little Mermaid) along the New Opera and Nyhavn to the Black Diamond (service lines 901 and 902).