Your shortcut to a happy, easy life in Aalborg
A practical guide to your new life in Aalborg & Denmark
The Insider’s Guide to Aalborg has been brought into the world to make your life as a newcomer to Aalborg easier, whether you’ve moved here to work, to study, to marry or as accompanying spouse or children.
With a membership of Insider’s Guide to Aalborg, you will get a comprehensive package:
- Every Sunday: Weekly e-mail guide of upcoming activities
- Every Wednesday: In-depth guide to a practical topic that will make your everyday life in Aalborg easier
- Access to a closed Facebook group with other internationals and Danes
- Monthly online Q&A session
All for the price of just DKK 99 a month (and special student discounts!).
TIP: Want to settle in faster? Sign up for our quick guide and get a life guide every 3 days.
Newly arrived in Aalborg?
With our New to Aalborg Guide, you will quickly learn the ins and outs of your new city and living in Denmark. From practical guides to what's going on in upcoming weeks.
Been in Aalborg for a while?
With our Living in Aalborg Guide, you will be on top of what's going on in Aalborg and get a ton of insider tips that will make your everyday life easier and more fun.
Tailored Company Packages
Help your international employees settle into their new life in Aalborg
- Contact us at anne@guidetoaalborg.dk to learn more about our tailored Company Packages.
What we do for you
A membership of Insider's Guide to Aalborg helps you find your new "feet" in Aalborg and makes you and your family feel welcome and at home in your new city.
Insider's Guide is an add-on to the public and private initiatives already in place to help internationals in Aalborg, and we aim to:
- Help you integrate in the local community.
- Make your everyday life easier by providing guides, tips and tricks to life in Aalborg.
- Help you form a social network.
- Give you access to the many culture and leisure offers that Aalborg provides.
- Help you understand Danish culture, habits, spoken and unspoken rules.
- Offer practical knowledge in a convenient and easily read way.
- Provide long-term help and information once the public welcome offers are over.
Examples of topics
The in-depth life guides will include topics such as:
- Where to find a cheap bike – and the rules of biking in Aalborg
- How to navigate the various different parking regulations
- Where to find the cheapest groceries – or exquisite specialty items
- Dos and don’ts of renting a home in Denmark
- The closest place to take the children on a picnic in a forest
The weekly guide will include tips to activities (paid or free) in the coming week in Aalborg, tips from other internationals on living in Aalborg, fun facts on Danes and Danish culture – and a lot of other things that will help you and your family in your everyday life in Aalborg.
Who is behind Insider's Guide to Aalborg?
The ideator behind Insider's Guide to Aalborg is Anne Bloksgaard Nielsen, owner of ABNI Communications. She has worked as a freelance translator and writer in Aalborg since 2007, and her clients include a wide range of public and private companies - often with international employees. She is 'born and bred' in the Aalborg area and holds a deep love for the city - and a passion to share all the city has to offer with you.
Sharing her love for the city is her competent writer duo, Johanne Nørgaard and Muffy Morrigan.
Johanne is an Aalborg local and a writer with a broad cultural studies and communications background and a Master's degree in English and Danish languages.
Muffy is an accomplished American fiction and non-fiction writer, who functions as the glue between the English-speaking world and Denmark, bridging the cultural divide. She sees Denmark as her second home and has been in love with Aalborg for more than 15 years.
We look forward to welcoming you to your new city!
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
None of our content is AI-generated.
We pride ourselves on our personal connection to Aalborg and Danish culture and our goal is to communicate important insider information, in our own words.
We may in a few specific cases use AI as part of our research process (as we are not experts in, say, tax law and rental law), but everything has been written, edited and fact-checked by an actual person. We want to help you person to person!
A membership is your shortcut to a happy life in Aalborg!
The membership functions as a subscription and gives you in-depth and topical information, delivered straight to your inbox, every week.
If you've signed up for our regular/student membership, you'll receive a Life Guide every Wednesday and a Guide to Weekly Events every Sunday. If you've signed up for our Quick Guide, you'll receive a Life Guide every 3 days and a Guide to Weekly Events every Sunday.
You’ll also get access to our Insider’s Guide members’ community on Facebook, where you can connect with other new residents, as well as invites to monthly Q&A sessions with the Insider’s Guide team.
We hope you’ll love it, but a membership is no-strings-attached, so you’re free to cancel at any time!
Our Insider’s Guide team is Anne Bloksgaard Nielsen, Muffy Morrigan and Johanne Nørgaard. We’re passionate writers, cultural communicators and certified Aalborg-lovers!
Learn more about the team
Do you have any feedback, suggestions for topics or just general questions about Aalborg and Denmark?
Don’t hesitate to reach out to us at contact@guidetoaalborg.dk, where we’re always just a message away!
To be eligible for the student discount, you must currently be enrolled at a Danish educational institution.