So, I bought a new bike this Summer and am experiencing Copenhagen on a proper bike. Whoaw. I bought the bike after realizing that the only way I can keep from certain insanity is through movement...thus the bike. On my way home from work today, I took a route I used to take about seven years ago, and it really struck me how little things change in this city. I biked from the somewhat orderly street of Gammel Kongevej, through Vesterbro, to the more disorderly Istedgade, which is still seedy and creepy, past DGI Byen, which is this humungous sports center, past the Central Train Station, along Tivoli, through the Danish House of Parliament, to Christianshavn. So little has changed in the ten years I have been here. Someone once said to me, after returning after seven years, "The only thing that's changed is the metro and the price of beer." Sure, Tivoli has a few new, high rides. Sure some of the roads have even been renovated, and it seems as though something is happenin...