A short visit to Copenhaguen

I must admit that I did not enjoy Copenhaguen that much in my first visit, more than five years ago. I do not know why, but those days spent in the capital of Denmark were not perfect, something was not working. This time, though, everything was different: I loved Copenhaguen!Our hotel was quite close to Kastellet (a former military fortress) and that was the aim of our first visit. We were surprised by the weather: after nine days in Iceland, we found it terribly hot in Copenhaguen, we could not stop sweating... From Kastellet, which is now a park with very nice views, we walked to the Little Mermaid, in order to get the typical picture when one is in Copenhaguen. It was not easy, as the place was crowded with Italian tourists, but we managed to take a fair number of pictures of the Little Mermaid: around 20...

Afterwards, we walked to Nyhavn and to Stroget, the main commercial street in Copenhaguen. We did not buy anything, because prices are a bit high for Spanish standards in Denmark (the same as five years ago). Then, I suggested going to Tivoli, an amusement park in the city centre and my suggestion was approved without much discussion. Inside Tivoli, we discovered that neither of us is really keen of this kind of amusement parks and we did not try any of the attractions: some were just too childish and the others were too risky for us. We just watched some theater and then left Tivoli.

Our next stop was the Ice Bar. It was only six in the evening, but it was on our way to the city centre and we did not want to spend much time there. So, we had a drink (just some kind of weird juice) inside, with a temperature of -5ºC and took some pictures. When leaving, we learnt that the man working there is from Seville...Soon afterwards, we took a cruise through the channels, which showed us the main buildings in Copenhaguen from a different perspective. However, when we were leaving our boat, we discovered that some of them had live music!!!!!!

We had dinner in a delicious and cosy Italian restaurant, then we ate an ice-cream in Nyhavn and slowly walked back to the hotel, as we were very tired. That night we could not sleep much since our room was one meter away from the railways, and, believe me, one meter really means one meter.

Next morning, our last day in Denmark started with a short visit to Rosenborg Slot, the old Royal Palace, and its surrounding gardens. We did not have time to pay a visit to the castle, since our next (and last) destination was Rundetarn, an astronomical viewpoint in Middle Ages, where you have very nice views of Copenhaguen.Sonia dared to challenge me to a race up the tower and I won, je, je, je. On the contrary, I lost the race down the tower, but she cheated, she cheated!!!!. The views from the tower are very nice on a clear day and we really enjoyed it.

However, we had ran out of time, so we just took our way back to the hotel. Then, we found some rental bycicles (in Tourist Information, they said that we were not going to spot any of them during our visit as there is a huge demand of them) and we took some pictures of it. Do I look like a Tour de France winner?

In the airport, again, we were behind a group of boy-scouts (as in my flight from London Gatwick to Reikiavik) in our check-in. The flight was very pleasant to both of us... We made a stop in Barcelona, where we were shocked by the hot and noisy atmosphere in the airport. That night, we were back to Spain, after ten unbelievable days in the North, with a lot of adventures, away from everything and from everybody. I will do it again, no doubt about it.