Neither of us had realised Copenhagen was such a watery city with canals and water ways everywhere. We were also intrigued by the number of bicycles on the street. People on bikes of all sorts of shapes and sizes thronged the street. Fairy tales, tall ships, beautiful old buildings and the Danish royal family were other points of interest. Our two days whizzed by before we knew it but not before we had spent a lot of money! We were amazed and horrified at the prices in the Euro zone.
The beautiful Little Mermaid from Hans Christian Anderson's famous fairy tale.
Nyhavn canal, near our hotel. Why wouldn't you love a city that looks like this?
Nyhavn again but in Lego this time. Look at the left side of the previous photo. This was in the Lego shop in the Main Street in the Lego capital of the World.
Bikes were every where. All sorts, shapes and sizes; bikes to carry groceries, children, boxes, trikes with arm chairs on the front to carry girlfriends or trailers on the back for babies. It really was amazing. It helps that the city is almost dead flat.
We went on a canal boat tour. Some of the bridges were very low. Andrew was almost beheaded a couple of times.
The wonderful storyteller himself, Hans Christian Anderson.
The changing of the guard at the royal palace.
We climbed the 400 hundred steps to the top of Our Saviours church spire and got a marvellous if a little scary view of the city. It was very narrow and windy at the top. We saw that that night there was going to be a free concert at the church so along we went. We were treated to a musical feast; a soprano and organist performing various classic works including Mozart's Exultate Jubilate, Wagner's Albumblatt and finishing off with Nessun Dorma, what a treat.
The magnificent church organ built in 1698. The whole thing is around 15 m wide and high. We did feel sorry for the poor elephants who have been holding the organ up for over 300 hundred years! Maybe that's why there are looking a little stunted.
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