Day in Copenhagen

Ah what a lovely day J This is more like the touring I was waiting for. Hotel. Warm. WiFi. Wandering around town. Watching the Tour. Dinner out. Ahhhhhh.

We both slept in and then Tony went out for a coffee while I did stuff and then at 9 (not around 9, at 9 – Tony had a plan) we were out for a walk. We stopped at the tourist info across the road and got a map. Then we meandered our way to the Little Mermaid which he wanted to see. We had a long wandering walk and checked out several sights along the way.

The Little Mermaid had a massive crowd which seemed far in excess of the sculpture itself. We got a photo, checked out the crowds and then started heading back. We stopped at a fine wine store, and yes it was open! I bought a 2009 Bordeaux for lunch. 

We stopped at a number of interesting sights and then went back to the train station and bought a selection of stuffs to have with lunch (bread, Camembert, roast beef, beer, coke, Salami, hummus). Back in the room we had a lovely two hour lunch sitting around watching the highlights of past Tours while gorging ourselves on the bread and delicacies plus 3/4 of the bottle of wine. A bliss J

Tony didn’t want to go for another walk, in fact he wanted to watch TV and have a bath. So I went out for a different walk and went to the David Gallery. It’s meant to specialise in 18^th Century art but the top two floors were about Islamic art and history which was way more interesting than the Danish art J

After a pleasant time I wandered back along yet a different route and stopped at a couple of supermarkets to see how they compared with the one at the station. Surprisingly the station had the best one that I saw.

Back at the room we watched the last 2 hours of the first stage of the Tour (a Time Trial) and then went over to the Tivoli Gardens. I don’t recall ever hearing about the gardens but it is a great attraction right in the heart of the city. 

There are numerous rides, which we didn’t go on, and pretty gardens. I checked out a couple of junk shops (too junky for me) and had a sit for a while to watch some of the vomitus rides.

Around 9 we went and had a meal. I had a delicious pizza, Capriccioso no olives, and water. The pizza had a really nice base, crisp in the centre and puffy on the sides. Really nice, lots of energy for tomorrow. We had a look at one of the plays they run, pantomime, and had planned to stay for a garden concert, however Tony was too tired so we headed back.

There were fireworks at 11:45 pm, quite nice and directly across the road from us. We watched that and then went to bed, around 12:15 am.