Modest hotel --we scored the only room with a balcony, although I expect that it will be our task to lower the flag to half mast if occasion demands -- but wifi works. Although that ain't saying much since the trains have carriages marked Fri Internet. Weather warm -- almost got sunburnt on Monday because I forgot to take a hat (laugh, Anna, Liz, laugh) -- although the main thing is the long period of daylight. Seems to get light at about 3.30 in the morning, but that might be because the clock on the giant TV in our room hasn't caught up with summer time. Gosh, CNN is so good too ... Still, there may be soccer tonight on Eurosport.
Most of our time here has been looking round the central parts of the town and the odd museum. We've taken a canal tour -- see where TLM would be if she wasn't in fact in Beijing -- and hopped on and off buses to see the quite bizarre royal art collection, crown jewels, etc; the botanical gardens, with very large glasshouses; the famed famed famed Tivoli Gardens, a sort of a cross between Luna Park, a nineteenth century Disneyland, the Show and the Spensley St fĂȘte ... Including a slightly posh nouveau Japanese restaurant where we ate. It will be very large pilsner infused with caraway for me please!
More time on buses and foot today to the national gallery and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotekt, a privately endowed collection of sculptures and antiquities. Lots of fabulous marble to set Kiera Knightly's pulse a-racing, including Rodin's 'Thinker' and 'The Kiss'.
Selected photos follow.
Today's challenge is: on what days of the week can you use wifi on Copenhagen trains? Answer by email before we break exciting news from Sweden and you could win a chance to receive a personalized 100 word commentary on continuity in Danish architecture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.
In the event of a tie, please also advise exactly what the Queen said at the Un that so moved the delegates of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Posted after a large Pakistani meal.
Location:Copenhagen
Tsk tsk - no hats!
ReplyDeleteAimee says: I hope you have a lovely time and you can call us when ever
you want to and i hope you have a lovely time there the end.
Important news! Today bought a sighting of the rare and wonderful creature known as a Porridge Cat.
much much much love from Aimee and Anna