Royal Copenhagen!

Copenhagen – 24-27th August posted by LP

It was our first long weekend in London, so one of our to go to destination was Copenhagen; pictures of the place always looked so pretty. We couldn’t afford to go here using $AUD, but since we were earning £, we thought, now or never!!

We left early on Saturday morning (there’s online check-in which we can pick our seats and print the boarding pass) and went straight through to security, very convenient. Copenhagen airport was lovely, but everything is so expensive!! Trying to find the city centre on the train map was hard, I was trying to find Central or Copenhagen central, but it was spelt Kobenhaven, we ended asking someone… Each time we are faced with a delay, I always say to Joe “we would have lost if we were on the Amazing race!”

We spent the day walking around the city, which was really nice, relaxing, fresh sea breeze, and had a bit of space when walking around. We didn't feel we were crammed in with too many people like in London. A lot of people got around on bicycles, and why not? They had a separate bike lane for cyclists, next to the footpath away from cars. It was amazing, I wish other cities was like this, I wish London and Sydney was like this. The city of Copenhagen even provided free bike hire for tourists, although finding one was a challenge as they were snapped up so early in the morning.

Our Canal cruise highlighted the difference between Old Copenhagen and New Copenhagen. Old Copenhagen is where the old town centre with all old buildings, New Copenhagen has all the converted warehouses to apartments along the canals which are lined with boats and yachts. It reminds me of many Woolloomooloo wharf joined together with restaurants and cafes at street levels. A great lifestyle!

We also visited Tivoli Garden, which is one of Copenhagen's famous attractions, it was a theme park, which caters for kids (rides, games, activities) and also adults (orchestra, Jazz, restaurants and many more). It was a great theme park, small, but intimate and we saw so many old people, just there to enjoy the entertainment.

A visit to Copenhagen cannot be complete without seeing the statue of the Little Mermaid, we had to do it, although I find it quite intriguing how a part of a fairy tale has become one of Copenhagen’s famous landmark.

We climbed the Vor Frelser Kirke aka Our saviour’s church, which has over 400 steps up the tower - and the last steps are external spiral staircase around the roof. Scary if you afraid of heights. Now I am not afraid of heights (that much) however when a strong gust of wind came along, it did make me feel nervous, and I had to lower my centre of gravity so I won’t lose my balance! The view from the top is breathtaking, well worth the steep climb up and numerous mini heart attacks!

Copenhagen is a great city, beautiful, walkable, and yummy hotdog stands everywhere. If only it wasn’t so expensive!! Not sure if when we will ever go back, but glad to have finally visited this charming city.