Copenhagen

[linne]

I have been asked in a PM for tips about Copenhagen. I have written my answer in Word, but when I copy it to a reply, I cannot send it. But I can send it as a new topic, so here it is.

First of all I can tell that we don’t live near Copenhagen, so I don’t have any present knowledge about good restaurants etc...

But we like to visit the city as tourists. It’s a nice place with a lot of old buildings, museums, parks etc.. So it’s difficult to say what’s a MUST SEE without knowing a tourist’s interest. But here some inspiration.

I would recommend taking an arranged tour around in the city. Then you will be presented for many of the sights and can choose to use more time later on what seems most interesting.

The roundtrip could for example be this free one:
http://www.newcopenhagentours.com/

or
http://www.copenhagenfreewalkingtours.dk/

It can also be charming to see the city from a boat
http://www.havnerundfart.dk/canaltours/ ... orside.php


We also like just to walk around in the old quarters Nyhavn (New Harbour) and Christianshavn.
In Nyhavn there is a lot of cosy restaurants, where you can sit outside, but it can be rather expensive in some of the places, and there can be a lot of people. But we like to visit the restaurants there anyway. Just to sit and look at the surroundings is a good experience.

This church is after my opinion worth a visit:
http://www.vorfrelserskirke.dk/english

And I also would highly recommend a visit in Rosenborg Castle, where you can see the crown jewels and take a walk in the garden
http://dkks.dk/english

I have visited this museum and found it very interesting (perhaps mostly for a Dane, don’t know)
http://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en

This museum I haven’t seen myself but friends liked it very much.
http://www.davidmus.dk/en

If it’s good weather it also can be nice to visit Tivoli.
http://www.tivoli.dk/en/. If you come on a Saturday there will be a spectacular firework


The northern part of Sealand is also worth a visit, but it’s a longer trip and costs more.
http://www.stromma.dk/en/COPENHAGENEXCURSIONS/

I hope you can use some of the tips. If there are other questions, just ask, and I shall try to help.

Linne

[linne]

I suddenly remember that I have written a TR from our latest visit to Copenhagen:

http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/v ... en#p226924



Linne

[shoemak38]

I suddenly remember that I have written a TR from our latest visit to Copenhagen:

http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/v ... en#p226924



Linne

and it was a very good report

[linne]

I suddenly remember that I have written a TR from our latest visit to Copenhagen:

http://www.virgin-islands-on-line.com/v ... en#p226924



Linne

and it was a very good report

Thank you Shoe, don't know why I cannot see the pics now.

Linne

[waterguy]

Thanks Linne
For all your work it will help alot.
Tom

[lprof]

Hello Linne, the forum format has changed for posting pics; I have gone through your post and edited it... only in this post, so that your pics can be seen through the links. When time allows, I'll try to figure out how to get the pics themselves back into the report. Your wonderful report and photos are too terrific to be invisible.

I hope that your summer has been delightful!

“Toes in the sand” has written a great TR from Copenhagen (miss the promised from Malaga !).
In February we visit the city ourselves, and I would like to show more pictures from our capital and tell about the weekend, we spent there together with a couple of our friends.

The main purpose with our visit was to see opera. Not because we are dedicated opera fans, but because we wanted to see the new opera house. There were other things we want to experience too, and beforehand we had made a detailed plan for most of our time in the weekend.

We arrived to “Copenhagen Admiral Hotel” Saturday morning. The hotel is housed in a more than 200-year-old grain-drying warehouse on the waterfront and is situated close to several interesting places. The warehouse is very nice restored with respect for the old atmosphere. It’s normally not cheap to stay there, but we had got a very good offer for the weekend. Our rooms were big and cosy and with a good view - among other things we could see the opera house on the other side of the canal. We were very satisfied with our choice.

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The first experience in our plan was to go to “Stroeget” the long pedestrian zone, where you can find a lot of different stores, restaurants etc.. The girls want to go shopping to look at clothes etc. for themselves. But we had to change the plan a little. It turned up that hubby had forgotten his winter jacket at home. He couldn’t be without a jacket the whole weekend, so we need to buy another one. But it wasn’t so easy. The first 5-6 stores, we went to, didn’t have a jacket, which was big enough for - as hubby says – a grown up man. Finally we ended up in a sports shop were hubby got a jacket, which actually was too big (it seldom happens, but it was a 5 XL). But the time was running, and we had to go to the restaurant, where we had reserved a table for lunch. So the girls didn’t have time to use any money!

On our way to the restaurant the Royal Guard came marching.

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We were very lucky concerning the weather. It was a little cold but nice sunshine, and people were already sitting outside the small restaurants along the canals, some of them with a blanket around the shoulder. After a long winter people are longing for being outside in sunshine.

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If it weren’t for our friend, who had been there before, we would never have chosen the restaurant, “Kanal-caféen” for lunch. From the outside it didn’t look of something special, but inside it was very cosy, not much was changed during the years, and it was totally filled up with guests. The restaurant is placed very near the Danish Parliament and you often see members of the parliament lunch here. We got delicious “smoerrebroed”, which is a Danish specialty (in the dictionary it’s translated as sandwich, but that’s not quite right). And of course we also had beer and snaps.

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The next we had to do, was to go to The black Diamond. The black Diamond is an extension to the Royal Library. The building is shaped like a sculptural monolith with a light slope and with a glass facade, where you can see the surroundings reflected. A very special building both inside and outside.

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We participated in a guided tour to both the new and the old library. In the old library it was fascinating to see some of the very old books and also to see the old reading room, which was looking as it did, when it was built. It was one of the first buildings in Copenhagen with electricity.

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The old filing cabinets were also still to see, although they of course weren’t used today.

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From the Royal library we went home to the hotel to prepare us for the evening. We enjoyed seeing some of the other nice buildings on our way.

Parts of the royal library:

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The royal theatre and Magasin du Nord (an old famous shopping centre):

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A part of Christiansborg (the house for the Danish parliament)

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Boersen (the house for stock exchange transactions)

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One of the canals:

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After changing clothes we had a drink in the room, and then went to Nyhavn (new harbour) to have our dinner. Nyhavn is a very popular place. In old days it was mostly sailors and loose girls you met here, but today you see all types of people, and there are many different types of restaurants to choose among. It’s always interesting to visit Nyhavn and to have a look at the ships in the canal and the colourful houses on both sides. We ended up in an Italian restaurant with nice paintings on the wall, and we had great food and wine.

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The next in our plan was to go to a new built theatre, which is a part of the Royal Theatre.
The building is very nice and there is a wonderful view from the restaurant.

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The play we saw was mostly “words”, no songs, no change of scene or dress. Perhaps influenced by beer, snaps and wine during the day plus he had been the driver to Copenhagen, hubby very soon found it boring and struggled to fall asleep. He doesn’t succeed completely, so I have to give him an elbow in the side several times. My girlfriend had less so the same problem with her hubby. But it was interesting to experience the theatre.

We enjoyed that we didn’t need to drive during the day. Stroeget, the library , Nyhavn, the theatre and the hotel are very close to each other.

Copenhagen Admiral Hotel by night:

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Next morning we had a great breakfast on the hotel, and after that we should participate in a guided tour in the opera house, which we had bought tickets for from home. Our plan was to take a little ferry over the canal, but while we were waiting for the ferry to sail, we found out that we had forgotten the tickets to the guided tour on the hotel. It meant that we had to return and instead of drive a longer way to the opera house to be sure to be there in time.

The opera house:

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It was an interesting guided tour we had, because we saw the whole house and the scenes from behind, and of course the guide could tell much interesting about the building. Actually the house is a gift to Copenhagen from the richest man in Denmark, a ship owner, who owns perhaps the biggest container fleet in the world. – Maersk.

After the visit to the opera we drove to Langelinie, a part of the waterfront, just to have a little walk. On our way we passed ”The little Mermaid”, where you nearly always will meet tourists with a camera. It’s said that she is the most photographed young lady in Europe.

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Sct. Albans church, which is the only Anglican church in Denmark:

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Then it was time for lunch, and we drove back to the hotel and found another cosy little place nearby with delicious “smoerrebroed” and tasty beer – no snaps, didn’t risk to fell asleep in the opera.

In Denmark we call this Paris beaf:

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Butter fried filet of fish with remoulade (a sort of tartar sauce) and rye bread:

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The restaurant had old kitchens tools on the wall, and a shelf with snaps made on different herbs:

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Finally the plan came to, what actually was the reason for the trip - opera.

We had some very good seats and enjoyed the opera Madame Butterfly – no closed eyes. In the pause we once more could admire the house and the fantastic lamps made of glass.

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Including the pause the opera lasted 3 hours, the drive home took about 2 and a half hour, and I must admit that we were rather tired, when we came home after a great and eventful weekend.

Linne

[Anthony]

Great post Linne - thank you!

[linne]

[quote="lprof"]Hello Linne, the forum format has changed for posting pics; I have gone through your post and edited it... only in this post, so that your pics can be seen through the links. When time allows, I'll try to figure out how to get the pics themselves back into the report. Your wonderful report and photos are too terrific to be invisible.

I hope that your summer has been delightful!



So nice of you Iprof to put the links in.

The summer in Denmark this year has been absolutely wonderful with sunshine most of the time.
And we have really enjoyed the view from the terrace in our cottage:













Linne

[lprof]

Lovely, Linne! You have a beautiful summer place! Thanks!