....Copenhagen, of course!
We arrived in Copenhagen just two weeks after the city centre had been flooded during a severe summer storm that delivered two months supply of rain in just a couple of hours. It was grey and drizzly when we arrived early on a Saturday afternoon. We spent a couple of hours in the small, but excellent Museum of Danish Resistance and by the time we emerged the sun was out and a walk to the Little Mermaid was in order, followed by a boat cruise around the canals of Nyhavn and Christianshavn.
The thing that excites me most about Denmark is the thing that is on display everywhere - design. It's in the buildings, the furniture, the fashion and the interior design of restaurants, shops and public buildings. It is a thoroughly delightful city and if the weather had risen a few degrees above 20 degrees we may have stayed longer than just a couple of days!
The food in Denmark is excellent. Danes are generally quite particular about their diet and it was easy to find fresh salads, good quality grain bread is usual, and meals were always served with abundant fresh vegetables. We did, of course, have our first real Danish pasty - which in Denmark are not called 'Danish' pastries!
We arrived in Copenhagen just two weeks after the city centre had been flooded during a severe summer storm that delivered two months supply of rain in just a couple of hours. It was grey and drizzly when we arrived early on a Saturday afternoon. We spent a couple of hours in the small, but excellent Museum of Danish Resistance and by the time we emerged the sun was out and a walk to the Little Mermaid was in order, followed by a boat cruise around the canals of Nyhavn and Christianshavn.
The thing that excites me most about Denmark is the thing that is on display everywhere - design. It's in the buildings, the furniture, the fashion and the interior design of restaurants, shops and public buildings. It is a thoroughly delightful city and if the weather had risen a few degrees above 20 degrees we may have stayed longer than just a couple of days!
The food in Denmark is excellent. Danes are generally quite particular about their diet and it was easy to find fresh salads, good quality grain bread is usual, and meals were always served with abundant fresh vegetables. We did, of course, have our first real Danish pasty - which in Denmark are not called 'Danish' pastries!
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| She's lovely but looks a little lonely sitting on the rock in the harbour. |
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| I actually think this is Santa Claus on his summer holidays. |
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| I love a country that has heart cut-outs in its Palace guard boxes! |
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| Great design - this old shipyard has been renovated into waterfront apartments |
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| The Danes excel at designing opera houses, don't they? |
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| Houseboat living in Christianshavn |
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| We didn't dine at Rene Redzepi's Noma restaurant. For two consequtive years it has been named world's best restaurant. We were told that it might be easier to get a dinner table at the Palace with Mary and Frederick! The 200 year old warehouse location and its fit out is stunning. Simple design, clean lines. Very Danish. |
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| We spent a delightful morning wandering around the Botanic Gardens |
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| Den Okologiske Polsemand (the organic hotdog man) or just 'dop'. Copenhagen's Politiken newspaper held a poll and this organic hot dog stand in central Copenhagen was voted by readers as number one place to eat. Yes, they were v v good. |
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| Nyhavn |
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| Sun lounge street cafe in Nyhavn. Like. |
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| Early evening stroll down lively Storget |
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| A summer's night at Tivoli |
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| Danish interior design everywhere. |
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| Danish sea-wind-farm |
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| Between Lubeck (Germany) and Denmark we took a Scanlines car ferry, and returning from Denmark to Rostock (Germany) we did the same. Very efficient travel. Ferry arrives, nose lifts up, cars drive in, ferry departs. Hundreds of kilometers of driving are replaced with a few short hours of relaxing on deck. |
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