Copenhagen in a day?

Everyone knows you can’t do justice to a city in one day. Copenhagen is a huge city with beautiful historical buildings.

You go from one street to the next noticing details like doors ,windows, colours and brickworks. Streets expand into cute squares where you can sit and people watch.

As there is so much to see , I think we will walk towards the Kings Garden and Rosenborg Castle. Yes you can have retail therapy as we will go down the main shopping street.

 

     

Bicycles are everywhere. As it is flat, everyone rides.There is a designated bike lane on the road and they obey the traffic lights. Mums with babies or young children in a front cart and even the delivery man is pulling a wagon all on bicycle.

   

Tivoli Gardens is the Disneyland of Denmark. It was created in the early 19th century and has many of the original roller coaster and rides.  No ,the crowd is 4 people thick and two blocks either way. I know you are disappointed but that would be all you would have time for today and I don’t want to stand in line.

   

Finally we are at the Kings Garden. These are also called the Rosenborg gardens as they are beside the Rosenborg Palace. They were created in the 1600’s but weren’t opened to the public until the 1700’s. There is a formal garden, avenues of trees and statues to admire or make up stories about.On such a lovely day, lots of locals were enjoying the lawns and gardens.

Look a group of soldiers are practicing for a parade .Great music and the synchronised gun movements . It was awesome to watch though the parade choreographer made them do it a few times.

I hope you won’t be  disappointed we won’t be going inside  the castle. It seems crowded and only a few rooms are open. 

   

 

Shall we walk to the Nyhavn? It is very picturesque.You can take a cruise or simply admire the old 16th and 17th merchant buildings. Most of the docked ships are historical.  Everyone  seems to be out today. It’s hard to get close to the shops.Look on the map, there is a happiness museum!

 

    Inner courtyards.

Do you think we should start back. We can go through the main palace grounds . Would you like to live on a houseboat? These ones are near the seaman’s church (Holman Chapel) and are all old boats that have been converted.

 

Definitely not, you cannot ask if Mary is in residence! Let’s admire this side of the palace and look, there is a hidden garden. It is the Library garden and was designed in 1920. It is peaceful just sitting and admiring the fountain.

 

I found these photos really interesting. They were part of a competition to show the normal not so pretty side of the city so you were seeing it as a local

 
I have to include this….as you know we get together regularly for coffee. Here in Denmark, this is how the girls get together. See you at coffee next week.