This morning two sailing ships came into the harbour loaded with boxes of fruit from Fejø.

Each year in September, immediately after the main harvest, growers from the island bring their fruit into Copenhagen with boxes of pears, apples and plums, and with several different varieties of each, to sell from the quayside of Nyhavn.

They have docked above the bridge, just where Lille Strandstræde comes into Nyhavn, so they are close, appropriately, to the house of the 18th-century sugar merchant Ludvig Ferdinand Rømer who imported raw sugar from the West Indies to be refined in his sugar works in the yard behind the house.

The arrival of the Fejø fruit growers gives a sense of what the harbour must have been like in the 18th and 19th century when citizens would have heard rumours about which ships had returned and would have come down to see the cargo they carried.

The growers from Fejø will be selling their fruit from the quayside in Nyhavn everyday through to Sunday 12 September.