KULTURHAVN is Denmark’s largest harbour festival, featured each year during the first weekend of August.
There are different areas (six harbours this year), everything is free (including the shuttle boats and waterbuses) and open to everyone.
You can watch some shows and concerts, or participate in contests or activities (dance, sports…), a lot (around 100) organisations participate to make you discover their art, sport or whatever 😉
Residence Permit
Today I went to submit my application for my residence permit. The university organizes a day in September where you can get in done in a day, and the number of CPR (national identification number and also social security number), but since we need a CPR to open a bank account or take out a phone subscription, I didn’t want to wait that long.
Indeed, I won’t even talk about my off-plan phone bill because I called my mother once, sent some SMS, and… to my great misfortune, looked some translations online (ok, I also posted a status and a photo on Facebook).
And I need a Danish bank account to reach my scholarship, I cannot see myself losing 10% more of everything I pay or withdraw from my French account.
The residence permit takes around 15 days to get, sometimes 3 weeks. So I wanted to go there as soon as possible because you then need it to get the CPR (but I don’t know how much time it takes to get CPR, if you get it right away or not).
To submit an application for the residence permit you need to bring these documents:
– your passport or your national ID card (bring both if you have both) + a colour copie of each
– one passport photo
– papers related to your situation (work contract, letter of admission from your university, etc.)
– the application form OD1
If you are in Copenhagen you have to go to
Statsforvaltningen / The Regional State Administration
Borups Allé 177, 2400 København NV
It is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m to noon, Tuesdays from noon to 3 p.m and Thursdays from 1 p.m to 4 p.m.
Offices are right next to the Fuglebakken train station (line F). On your left when you get out.
I don’t know if I was lucky but in 5 minutes (line included) everything was done, I will receive my permit directly at home.
Change (euros for danish crowns)
Like I did last year I made some change before I left. It prevents you from the enormous fees you have to pay when you take money from an ATM or at the airport (around 10% I think).
Since I had no problems last year I used the website http://www.multi-change.com/ again. If you are in Paris you can go directly to an agency because they always have crowns available. The website is handy if you monitor the rates, then you can order when it seems most advantageous. I chose the delivery in agency, to save time, expense, and anxiety because of the Post (even if I never heard of problems about it, and you should also know that as of a certain amount you have to go get the envelope to the post office with a proof of identity). To fight against fraud you must now send an email with a scan of your ID and proof of residence (you won’t have to do it again the next times). When you get your order in an agency it is usually ready within 24 hours.
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