Monday, August 21, 2006
København
We're starting day 3 in Copenhagen. This is the great city that all the guides claimed it would be. It reminds us at times of Amsterdam and at times of Paris. Not only are there canals, there are lots of winding streets that end with some giant important building. All over the old part of town there are huge beautiful buildings like cathedrals, churches, museums, and government buildings.
Copenhagen has the longest pedestrian only street in a major European city: the Strøget. This is fun the first time or two that you walk it. It reminds me of how Portland is trying to reduce it's no-auto zones rather than increase them (the bus mall). It is too bad that they can't do something like the Strøget in Portland.
On day one, we had an uneventful trip from Århus to Copenhagen. We got in around 3pm, checked in, and spent the rest of the evening exploring the winding streets. We hopped an hour long canal cruise, which took us around the harbor and pointed out some of the more incredible sights seen from the water. In the current-events department, they took us past some 200+ year old boat sheds built to hide their ships from the English. Several of them had burned down two nights earlier. Too bad.
We had dinner in Nyhavn, which is where most of the iconic pictures of Copenhagen's harbor come from. If you do a Google image search of Copenhagen and see pictures of a row of colorful wooden buildings along a harbor, that's Nyhavn.
Yesterday, the museums were all closed so we just did some more hiking around. We toured an old castle, saw the "little mermaid", toured an old citidel, discovered an old windmill, watched the changing of the guard, and just did a bunch more touristy sort of things. Today is museum day and we hope to see the at least two major musums include the National Musum. Tomorrow we plan to do a little more train hoping and explore the near-by region that includes several more castles. We'll have one more day, perhaps for Tivoli (the famous amusement park), then it's an overnight train to Stockholm.
Copenhagen has the longest pedestrian only street in a major European city: the Strøget. This is fun the first time or two that you walk it. It reminds me of how Portland is trying to reduce it's no-auto zones rather than increase them (the bus mall). It is too bad that they can't do something like the Strøget in Portland.
On day one, we had an uneventful trip from Århus to Copenhagen. We got in around 3pm, checked in, and spent the rest of the evening exploring the winding streets. We hopped an hour long canal cruise, which took us around the harbor and pointed out some of the more incredible sights seen from the water. In the current-events department, they took us past some 200+ year old boat sheds built to hide their ships from the English. Several of them had burned down two nights earlier. Too bad.
We had dinner in Nyhavn, which is where most of the iconic pictures of Copenhagen's harbor come from. If you do a Google image search of Copenhagen and see pictures of a row of colorful wooden buildings along a harbor, that's Nyhavn.
Yesterday, the museums were all closed so we just did some more hiking around. We toured an old castle, saw the "little mermaid", toured an old citidel, discovered an old windmill, watched the changing of the guard, and just did a bunch more touristy sort of things. Today is museum day and we hope to see the at least two major musums include the National Musum. Tomorrow we plan to do a little more train hoping and explore the near-by region that includes several more castles. We'll have one more day, perhaps for Tivoli (the famous amusement park), then it's an overnight train to Stockholm.
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Hey Jenn,
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