Originally posted to Posterous on 24 May 2011
All too soon our time in Copenhagen has come to an end. We have had some beautiful spring days, with sunshine and warmth, allowing plenty of exploring on foot. We have visited the Queen (or at least, her palace) at Amalienborg, saw the guards, and been scared by the guards as they warned people not to get too close to the palace windows by banging their rifles onto the ground. We visited the Little Mermaid, back from her visit to China last year, and been duly underwhelmed. We had lunch at Nyhavn. We went to Tivoli at night and enjoyed the lights and atmosphere. We took the train up to Humlebæk and saw a Picasso exhibition at Louisiana, plus a really cool David Hockney exhibition of art created on iPads and iPhones. I have eaten more Danish pastry than I care to think about, and Tova has had her fair share of Carlsberg and Tuborg. We have both had open sandwiches, rullepølse (spiced ham, rolled up - it's hard to describe) and frikadeller (Danish meatballs).
So it has been a pretty typical Danish holiday experience. We admired the swarms of bikes and trikes that the young, younger and old use to get around, and which crowd the streets and footpaths. These are mostly old-fashioned bicycles, with comfortable-looking seats, that people ride sitting up straight. Definitely not bikes for the lycra-wearing crowd. Tova wanted to buy one, but we figured that a bike might not fit easily in our suitcase. There are also trikes with special compartments upfront for shopping, freight or kids (actually, mostly kids) that look like terrific fun.
It's been too short a visit though - there's still a lot we could do. But these will need to wait for our next visit. Pictures of Copenhagen can be found at http://gallery.me.com/honningbi67/100366.