18.9.18 Day 19 - Copenhagen-Walking Tour, Boat Tour
Up and away by 6.30 am to have a look around our neighbourhood before breakfast. 
Sign says it all.
A pretty imposing building.
Sunrise over the canal and old buildings the tall grey one is our Airbnb
Home. The open window 4 up and 2 across is my bedroom window.
A Danish slug…yes Suzie and I will photograph anything native.
The Cotadel which we walked around last night - this map shows the five pointed shape.
Christian the Fourth. A prolific creator and consumer of lots of things. He had 2 wives and 6 girlfriends, 23 kids, loved his food and built LOTS of things.
Liked the colours of sun shining through the leaf.
Mie gave us a few language lessons. The one on the right is Crown Princess Gade. The left one was lemon myrtle gade.
Old public housing - first built by Christian 4 in order to strengthen his navy. He offered housing to men and their families in return for serving in the navy. Still used in this way today.
Yep. Deeply intent on whatever Mie is explaining
One of the most expensive streets - $1-2mill AUD for 100sq feet of house.
They do seem to. There are always people out with their dogs. Always on leads.
Postie
More of the public housing barracks. Love this colour.
A dapper gentleman having his Hygge and Mie explains Danish’s and then bought us one each.
Walking to the park to eat them.
Suzie and I chose this poppy seed one. Deliciously not too sweet.
Yum.
Rosenberg Castle. Kristian 4ths fun palace. A weekender where he met his girlfriends and hosted guests. Has an indoor loo and the first sound system.
Liked the tree on this statue of some politician.
Wonder how many buy their drinks with Bitcoin?
Mie advised that looking in behind the front of buildings reveals the age of them. What looks like a nice old building from the front is actually really old when you get behind them.
The Standard, was the main ferry terminal between Denmark and Sweden. Now a bar/restaurant.
Under one of many bridges. This one rather more modern
Houseboats in the edge of alternate hippy community of Christiania.
Old cannon boat sheds - repurposed today.
Navy ship on left. Old crane for masting tall ships on the right.
The Little Mermaid flanked by many tourists. She is little in name and stature at only 1.25m high. Mie told us a story of a fellow guide taking some U.S. visitors around, they wanted to be sure they got to climb to the top of The Little Mermaid statue!!! The statue was yet another gift to the city from Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg beer.
The 2 billion kroner opera house, also built by Carl Jacobsen.
Enjoying our cruise on a warm sunny day in Copenhagen. We have been soooo lucky with the weather.
Forget this building’s name, but at the right time you can see the city reflecting in it.
No standing up under these old bridges.
Steeple and an electricity company green energy promo globe.
Antipasto plate for lunch.
Lunch selfie.
Parliament steeple which we are about to go up to view the city.
Impressive Danish coat of arms.
Looking over car park and parade grounds
Looking down on old city.
In a room in tower they had some models of statues and the building. This level used to be open to the outside and pigeons roosted here. To recreate this there were birds projected onto statues. Very clever and realistic. They fluttered and cooed with sound effects.
Statue selfie.
Holding the weight of the world sure works those abs.
An artist sketching the Old Stock Exchange
A kiosk selling drinks. Danes drink alcohol all day. Soft liquor is legal from 16. Hard spirits from 18yo
A cute little old house on the corner, dwarfed by the Huawei sign.
Nyhavn.
Ice creams all round on a warm Copenhagen day.
Sign says it all.
A pretty imposing building.
Sunrise over the canal and old buildings the tall grey one is our Airbnb
Home. The open window 4 up and 2 across is my bedroom window.
Back home to meet others for breaky. Back to the real world today - no superb hotel breaky in the Airbnb, so off just a couple of metres to the local bakery Lagkagehuset. We had a coffee, chia Bircher muesli and cinnamon Danish. Quite nice.
Then our Urban Adventures walking tour with Mie.
Mie showed us the not top locations. A really great walking tour that included a danish and a coffee - both really good and a nice touch too.
A Danish slug…yes Suzie and I will photograph anything native.
The Cotadel which we walked around last night - this map shows the five pointed shape.
Christian the Fourth. A prolific creator and consumer of lots of things. He had 2 wives and 6 girlfriends, 23 kids, loved his food and built LOTS of things.
Liked the colours of sun shining through the leaf.
Mie gave us a few language lessons. The one on the right is Crown Princess Gade. The left one was lemon myrtle gade.
Old public housing - first built by Christian 4 in order to strengthen his navy. He offered housing to men and their families in return for serving in the navy. Still used in this way today.
Yep. Deeply intent on whatever Mie is explaining
One of the most expensive streets - $1-2mill AUD for 100sq feet of house.
They do seem to. There are always people out with their dogs. Always on leads.
Postie
More of the public housing barracks. Love this colour.
A dapper gentleman having his Hygge and Mie explains Danish’s and then bought us one each.
Walking to the park to eat them.
Suzie and I chose this poppy seed one. Deliciously not too sweet.
Yum.
Rosenberg Castle. Kristian 4ths fun palace. A weekender where he met his girlfriends and hosted guests. Has an indoor loo and the first sound system.
Liked the tree on this statue of some politician.
Wonder how many buy their drinks with Bitcoin?
Mie advised that looking in behind the front of buildings reveals the age of them. What looks like a nice old building from the front is actually really old when you get behind them.
There are many, many steeples here in Copenhagen I vaguely recall 350 but could be wrong.
Getting into the backyards.
Stork fountain, a good meeting place, is in what was once the longest pedestrian street. Also Uni students swim naked here on graduation.
Another steeple
This barley sugar twisted steeple belongs to the oldest Stock exchange in the world.
The car park at Parliament House. Most politicians ride to work.
These pots outside parliament are actually their anti terrorist bollards.
Beautifully presented- yes pumpkins.
This garden used to be absent of people, until Pokémon Go had three in here. Also where Mie had weddings pics.
Looking back to Parliament across the place where horses were.
Canal.
Old street.
Mie finished the walking tour at a little coffee shop and bought us coffee too. It was a brilliant tour. We got some dinner recommendations and learnt a lot. Mie took us to the canal so we could take the sightseeing tour.
The loo at the cafe. Mie suggested the first one as they were small. She wasn’t kidding. You had to back into the left one and I’m not sure how the door would shut.
Looking back towards city from sightseeing tour.
Getting into the backyards.
Stork fountain, a good meeting place, is in what was once the longest pedestrian street. Also Uni students swim naked here on graduation.
Another steeple
This barley sugar twisted steeple belongs to the oldest Stock exchange in the world.
The car park at Parliament House. Most politicians ride to work.
These pots outside parliament are actually their anti terrorist bollards.
Beautifully presented- yes pumpkins.
This garden used to be absent of people, until Pokémon Go had three in here. Also where Mie had weddings pics.
Looking back to Parliament across the place where horses were.
Canal.
Old street.
Mie finished the walking tour at a little coffee shop and bought us coffee too. It was a brilliant tour. We got some dinner recommendations and learnt a lot. Mie took us to the canal so we could take the sightseeing tour.
The loo at the cafe. Mie suggested the first one as they were small. She wasn’t kidding. You had to back into the left one and I’m not sure how the door would shut.
Looking back towards city from sightseeing tour.
The Standard, was the main ferry terminal between Denmark and Sweden. Now a bar/restaurant.
Under one of many bridges. This one rather more modern Houseboats in the edge of alternate hippy community of Christiania.
Old cannon boat sheds - repurposed today.
Navy ship on left. Old crane for masting tall ships on the right.
The Little Mermaid flanked by many tourists. She is little in name and stature at only 1.25m high. Mie told us a story of a fellow guide taking some U.S. visitors around, they wanted to be sure they got to climb to the top of The Little Mermaid statue!!! The statue was yet another gift to the city from Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg beer.
The 2 billion kroner opera house, also built by Carl Jacobsen.
Enjoying our cruise on a warm sunny day in Copenhagen. We have been soooo lucky with the weather.
Forget this building’s name, but at the right time you can see the city reflecting in it.
No standing up under these old bridges.
Steeple and an electricity company green energy promo globe.
Antipasto plate for lunch.
Lunch selfie.
Parliament steeple which we are about to go up to view the city.
Impressive Danish coat of arms.
Looking over car park and parade grounds
Looking down on old city.
In a room in tower they had some models of statues and the building. This level used to be open to the outside and pigeons roosted here. To recreate this there were birds projected onto statues. Very clever and realistic. They fluttered and cooed with sound effects.
Statue selfie.
Holding the weight of the world sure works those abs.
An artist sketching the Old Stock Exchange
A kiosk selling drinks. Danes drink alcohol all day. Soft liquor is legal from 16. Hard spirits from 18yo
A cute little old house on the corner, dwarfed by the Huawei sign.
Nyhavn.
Ice creams all round on a warm Copenhagen day.
After lunch we wandered back towards home with stops to see The Little Mermaid and Citadel again, hopefully minus the tourists later in the day.
Cute.
Saw this guy polishing his car. Later saw a car show round the corner.
An electric BMW charging beside the old car.
The car show.
Amazing fountain and statue not far from The Little Mermaid. Gefion Fountain. Gefion was a Norse Goddess. The king of Sweden promised to give her as much land as she could plough in 24 hours. She harnessed her brothers, who she had turned into bulls to carry out the task. Legend has it the king was angry to wake to such a huge amount ploughed. He was angry and took his strong fist and picked up the ploughed land and threw it away. This land became the Island on which Copenhagen stands and created the largest lake in Sweden. Looking at the maps the shapes of the lake and island match!!!
A nice Abbey near the Gefion statue and the Citadel
The Little Mermaid.
And again
And a selfie.
Back the Citadel which we walked throughout with Martha yesterday- a bit more time for pics today.
A Fortress built to defend Copenhagen from land and sea attack.
We had dinner at one of Mie’s suggestions on the way home. This inscription on the base of the stand pictured below reads “bowl for a moment's enjoyment in silence.”…
…which I thought was a lovely sentiment.
Cheers.
Very crispy pork - evidently a Danish National dish. It was delicious.
A beef stew - also very tasty.
Weiner schnitzel was a bit average in comparison.
Home to bed. A big 12 hour, 23 000 step day.
Cute.
Saw this guy polishing his car. Later saw a car show round the corner.
An electric BMW charging beside the old car.
The car show.
Amazing fountain and statue not far from The Little Mermaid. Gefion Fountain. Gefion was a Norse Goddess. The king of Sweden promised to give her as much land as she could plough in 24 hours. She harnessed her brothers, who she had turned into bulls to carry out the task. Legend has it the king was angry to wake to such a huge amount ploughed. He was angry and took his strong fist and picked up the ploughed land and threw it away. This land became the Island on which Copenhagen stands and created the largest lake in Sweden. Looking at the maps the shapes of the lake and island match!!!
A nice Abbey near the Gefion statue and the Citadel
The Little Mermaid.
And again
And a selfie.
Back the Citadel which we walked throughout with Martha yesterday- a bit more time for pics today.
A Fortress built to defend Copenhagen from land and sea attack.
We had dinner at one of Mie’s suggestions on the way home. This inscription on the base of the stand pictured below reads “bowl for a moment's enjoyment in silence.”…
…which I thought was a lovely sentiment.
Cheers.
Very crispy pork - evidently a Danish National dish. It was delicious.
A beef stew - also very tasty.
Weiner schnitzel was a bit average in comparison.
Home to bed. A big 12 hour, 23 000 step day.
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