http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8621038.stm

This is COOL. Absolutely going to do it. More than once. Maybe more than 7 and a half times.

It's rare to see things like this back in the US? Maybe not rare, they definitely exist, but I think you have to find them. This is something thats on posters around the city and friends are talking about it. Its just really refreshing when something like this isn't just for those who hear from their friends. Its not an alternative?

Another great thing I've found. Thursday nights in the Freetown of Christiania they serve dinner. By they, I mean anyone who's volunteered to cook...I think.It was hard to tell how it was organized. Really though I don't even think it was. It's an event I guess, and one that's been catering to the stomachs of anyone who's not a Christiania resident for quite some time. But for those who live there, it's not a spectacle, it's just dinner and totally normal. And by dinner I mean all you can eat, dessert and a free-for-all on the leftover bread and pastries when its over. All for 20 Krones, about 5 dolla. Everyone eats cafeteria style, but not like any cafeteria I've ever been to. No flourescents, and no tiled floors and no crotchety old women serving up the stew. It feels more like a dank basement out of the viking age. Candles, old wooden walls, dirt floors? What I mean is its super Hygge. You meet new friends and stuff yourself on the cheap. Everyone brings wine and beer to share and by the time you leave you're ready for the next adventure. Luckily there almost always is one, and everybody shuffles out to find it. Live music or just more drinks and Hygge in Copenhagen.

I saw Christiania's motto, "A lower standard of living for a higher quality of life" etched onto the front of one of their creative Christiania Bikes- like a Burley, but better, see below- as we headed back out under the "Now entering the European Union" gate. Sounds like an ideal, and it probably is. But from this and other experiences in that wonderful place it seems like one they've made huge strides towards.