What a great start to a 2 week break from London!!! We landed in Copenhagen on Saturday at around 10am and reached our lovely hotel at about 11am, where Bec promptly ate her words about hotels around the central station being awful. Our 2 star hotel located a street from the main terminal is pretty lush, but so are most things in Copenhagen - we´ve discovered over the last 3 days. After dumping our bags in our room we headed our to the National Muesum for a whistle stop tour of Danish History, along the way we bought our first danish pastry and discovered that Tivoli (Copenhagens main tourist attraction - kinda like a danish disneyland) was SHUT! Jarratt was relieved as that was gonna save him a bucket load of cash whereas I, as you can imagine was a little less joyful. After the muesum we headed to Slotsholmen, an island seperated by river from the city that houses the Danish Parliament and a few muesums. From there we boarded one of the canal cruise boats for a spin around the sights. Afterwards, exhausted from our 4am start we headed back to the hotel for a short kip. We then headed down to the local cafe for our first Calsberg and a danish style burger.
Sunday we headed out to the Carlsberg Brewery to sample some of Danish´s finest ales. We learnt all about the development of Carlsberg, the brewing process and the worlds largest collection of unopened beer bottles, 18314 in total!!!! After some silly photo ops we made our way through the souvenir shop (without purchasing anything!) to the Jacobson bar. Before you entered the bar there is an option to smell a number of aromas, you then pick the combination you like and hey, presto! You can have a beer matching those smells! Despite only receiving 2 free tickets we ´found´ an additional two so in total we sampled 6 beers (Hvede x2, A seasonal Spring Beer, Elephant, Carls Special, Master Brew). A little tipsy we headed back to town. Later that night we headed out to the beautiful area called Ny Havn for a seafood dinner. Very Tasty!!!
Today we headed up to Amalienborg Palace to see the changing of the guards at noon and the Frederikskirken (aka the marble church), afterwoods we wandered along the seafront to check out the famed Little Mermaid Statue. Before picking up some Smorrenbord and heading to the Kings Gardens for lunch. We then spent the rest of the afternoon wandering the Latin Quarter before pulling in at La Glace, Copenhagens oldest cake shop, for some Mocca Eclaire. Tonight we plan on eating local again and getting ready for Russia tomorrow. Cant Wait!!!
Till next time.... xoxoxo
The Master with his Brew! (Gotcha dave!)
Us in Ny Havn Quay.
The little mermaid statue.
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Master of disaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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