VAGABOND: DENMARK

Copenhagen is an Eldorado for Vagabonds: They are offered food, resting places and clothes all the year round for free and passport is usually not required for entrance! Copenhagen provides for all sorts of people, but in the rest of the country there are more limitations in one or another way. Only few places offer inhousing rest for free, and less reliable.

If you are entitled social wellfare money, people usually get about 800 euro/6500 Dkk each month - if you are engaged some less and if you have children even more. All over the Country you can make Cash by collecting bottles and by selling them to supermarkets.

In especially (Grand)Copenhagen there are more "to-be places", where people can obtain themselves inside a house without doing anything. But these places usually also provide access to internet and television/video and some food, that may cost a little. As Vagabond you will usually obtain yourself at night: either in a nightcafe - at herberge -, on a public toilet, on the street or some other unusual place and at day: either in to-be places, train station halls, church halls, eating places, on the street or some other unusual place.
Denmark

Denmark is though over all flat and small, many places there lie abandoned bicycles, so why not travel by foot or bicycle. It is only the bridge between Zealand(Sjælland) and Funen(Fyn), that has to be passed with either Train, Car or Boat. But you can easily jump the Regional Train on the Station just before the Bridge - enter the Toilet-compartment, wait till stop - leave the toilet and the train again on the other side of the bridge!

PLACES TO GET FOOD FOR FREE

COPENHAGEN:
Kirkens Korshaer Varmestuen Fedtekaelderen
Overgaden Oven Vandet 6 A
1415 Kbh K
Tlf: 32 54 56 08
E-mail: fedtekaelderen@kirkenskorshaer.dk
Map
(Usual) open every day from 8:30 to 14:00.

Kirkens Korshaer Varmestue
Istedgade 102, st.
1650 Kbh V
Tlf: 3331 3918
Map
Open almost every day, but opening hours often shift.
Some Food are free, and some cost very little to begin with.

Blaagaardskirkens krypt
Blaagaards Plads 6 A
2200 Kbh N
tlf. 3539 8631
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Open every day (exept weekend and summermonths) from 8 - 11.

Kirkens Korshaer - Noerrebro Korps
Stengade 40
2200 Kbh N
tlf. 3536 7845
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Open every night from 0:00 till 7:00.

ODENSE:
Kirkens Korshaers Varmestue
Noerregade 48
5000 Odense C
tlf. 6612 9242
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Eat free breakfest here mon-fri in the morning.

MORE PLACES & OTHER CITIES:
The places above where you can eat for free are churchly organisations. But there are plenty of more places to eat for free. You can just ask at these places about other places and there you go!
Usually the places to be (warming shelters) and sleep are the same, that offer food for free! So look for more places & other cities under these subjects in the menu.

OUT IN THE COUNTRY:
If you are out somewhere in the country and hungry, you can ask in a tourist office or the local taxi driver for a place to eat free. You can also look in the trash of a recently closed bakery. Food tend to get alive if it lie long enough in the trash! If you are going to steal food, I suggest that you collect a few bottles to sell in the supermarket or that you at least buy something cheap, so that you have a reason for being in there, when you walk pass the desk out again. In the larger cities you can some places pretend to be a skitzofrenic - a patient from the mentally hospital - and they will sometimes also feed you then.

PLACES TO SLEEP FOR FREE

COPENHAGEN:
Kirkens Korshaer - Noerrebro Korps
Stengade 40
2200 Kbh N
tlf. 3536 7845
Map
Open every night from 0:00 till 7:00.
This place only has a small room with few places to sleep, so there has to be a lottery about those places, the rest of the crew get to stay in the main room, where the television is on and people talks, but at least inside. Though after being this place, it is suitable to walk straight over to:
Blaagaardskirkens krypt
Blaagaards Plads 6 A
2200 Kbh N
tlf. 3539 8631
Map
Open every day (exept weekend and summermonths) from 8 - 11.
They are usual open already at 7:00, and you can also sleep here.

Sundholm Natcafe
Sundholmsvej 36
2300 Kbh S
Tlf: 33 17 66 51
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Open from 21:00 till 7:00 or more. It is a night cafe with large rooms for sleep and one main hall with television and cantine.

There are more places to sleep for free. Many of the day time eating places also have some resting places too.

ODENSE:
Kirkens Korshaers Natvarmestue
Pantheonsgade 6, 1.
5000 Odense C
Tlf: 65 90 63 20
Map
Open from 23:30 to 7:00 usually every day exept 1 day each month. They have a small room with 6 places for sleep and a larger with television and video and some more resting places.

You can also enter Odense University Hospital before closing time and sleep under the stairs.

AARHUS:
Nattjeneste i Aarhus
Noerre Alle 25
Tlf. 86 12 56 66
Open 24-06

AALBORG:
Natvarmestuen i Aalborg
Korsgade 44
Tlf. 98 13 20 11
Open 23-07. Morningcafe mon-fri open at 7 to 9.

MORE PLACES & OTHER CITIES:
Look at the official phone register for hostals for other places (- Press the map to get a location). If you try one of these, ask them whether they have a Nightcafe open, cause that has free entrance. To enter their hostal, you need to enroll the social system, which means trouble, but you could also try that.

OUT IN THE COUNTRY:
Out in the country and sleepy, vagabonds usually use a public toilet with heater on it for sleep. That is also why the authorities usually lock such at night time.

HOUSE WARMING FOR FREE

COPENHAGEN:

Kirkens Korshaer Varmestuen Fedtekaelderen
Overgaden Oven Vandet 6 A
1415 Kbh. K
Tlf: 32 54 56 08
E-mail: fedtekaelderen@kirkenskorshaer.dk
Map
Open every day (usually) from 8:30 to 14:00.

Kirkens Korshaer Varmestue
Istedgade 102, st.
1650 Kbh V
Tlf: 3331 3918
Map
Open almost every day, but opening hours shift a lot.

Blaagaardskirkens krypt
Blaagaards Plads 6 A
2200 Kbh N
tlf. 3539 8631
Map
Open every day (exept weekend and summermonths) from 8 - 11.

ODENSE:
Kirkens Korshaers Varmestue
Noerregade 48
5000 Odense C
tlf. 6612 9242
Map

Paraplyen Cafe
Noerregade 77 A, st.
5000 Odense C
Tlf: 66 12 85 85
Map

MORE PLACES & MORE CITIES:
On their Website this Organisation 'Kirkens Korshaer' has a complete List with Addresses of their Warming-Shelters in Cities of Denmark. Go to this Webpage'Varmestuer' in their menu for warming shelters.

You can also try this List in the official register for telephone numbers and addresses of warming-shelters in Denmark. (Press the map to get a location.) And you can expand your search even further by typing 'værested' or 'værestedet' (instead of 'varmestue') in the box below the 'Navn/Firmanavn:' Text at the official site. But the list you get now also includes places for drug-addictive, skitzophrenic & other kinds of people. You can easily pretend to be skitzophrenic - mentally sick - and enter places provided by the SIND organisation.

Anyway there are plenty of more places to be for free: Libraries, Churches, Shopping-centre ..., you just have to move on those places. and click

Large Hospitals can be a fine warming shelter too.

WHERE TO GET CLOTHES FOR FREE

COPENHAGEN:
Kirkens Korshaer Varmestue
Istedgade 102, st.
1650 Kbh V
Tlf: 3331 3918
Map
Open almost every day, but opening hours shift a lot.

Blaagaardskirkens krypt
Blaagaards Plads 6 A
2200 Kbh N
tlf. 3539 8631
Map
Open every day (exept weekend and summermonths) from 8 - 11. There are plenty of other places to get clothes for free in Copenhagen. Just ask around.

ODENSE:
Kirkens Korshaers Varmestue
Noerregade 48
5000 Odense C
tlf. 6612 9242
Map
Usually open from mon-fri in the morning.
You can also get your clothes washed here.

MORE PLACES & MORE CITIES:
Usually the places to be (warming shelters) are the same, that offer clothes for free! So look for more places & other cities under this subject in the menu.

OUT IN THE COUNTRY:
If you are out somewhere in the country and need clothes, you can ask in a tourist office or the local taxi driver about a red cross depot. You can also offen find clothes in some trash. But if you are planning to steal some of need, I suggest that you pick a store with no alarm at the entrance or make sure, that your clothes do not carry any alarm-block before passing the sounders. If you need to steal shoes, pick some lying in a box, so that you can hide your old nasty ones in that box after wearing the new ones out.