The other sights we took in in Denmark included Kobenhavn and the castle at Helsingor Castle. This picture is of the Kobenhavn Town Hall. It forms one side of a huge square that is home to lots of locals and tourists and seemed a popular meeting spot. Off to one side of this square we found and enjoyed a 2 hour Kobenhavn city bus tour.
Tivoli Gardens is a popular amusement park in downtown Kobenhavn. Despite Charlotte and Allister’s strong interest (!), due to our time in Kobenhavn, this was as close as we got to enjoying its attractions.
I’d guess everyone recognizes this site. Our bus tour stopped and let everyone take pictures. That’s the Queen of Denmark’s yacht in the top left corner and she actually uses it – Charlotte’s CISV friends in Nakskov told us that the Queen had visited Nakskov using this boat earlier in the summer.
Charlotte and Allister and the Little Mermaid.
After the bus tour we took our own walking tour to take a closer look at some of the sights we’d seen while on the tour. We spend some time touring a very interesting museum, full of original artifacts that memorialized the Danish Resistance role in WWII.
Nearby, and close to an Anglican Church (St. Alban’s – I have a picture but didn’t post it), was a memorial to Churchill. This bust was shaded by a fairly large tree that had been planted at the same time as the memorial was dedicated.
We had seen plenty of architecture (and would see plenty more!) but I liked the look of Kobenhavn’s new Opera House.
Finally, this was the view from our dinner table in a totally touristy Kobenhavn outdoor cafe. I think I had seen this view in postcards so I wanted to make sure I captured one for us. During our dinner, a musical group set up their instruments and performed a very nice set — and then came and asked for a contribution to their respective university funds.
The next day we visited Helsingor Castle, a remarkably well preserved castle that a Danish king had established to collect tariff’s for commercial traffic heading through the narrows between this point in Denmark and Sweden. Apparently if the right amount of money was not paid, the King ordered his soldiers to fire their cannons on the insolent captain and their ship.
This is a view from an observation point in the castle. The land across the water at the top of the photo is Sweden.
Part of the castle also doubles as the Danish National Maritime Museum. Laura-Lyn took this picture of an umiak, an Inuit boat used for hunting. Those are hides stretched over the hull. We felt right at home, this boat could also have been part of a Canadian National Maritime Museum, wherever it might exist.
