So - Copenhagen today. We are tour escorting in the morning - Copenhagen Walk and Cruise, but we don't have to be on the pier until 9.15, so it wasn't too early a start.
Peter and I did a lot of walking last time we visited, so we've already seen many of the sights we were shown on tour. But with the guide explaining everything via our little audio boxes (each person is given a little reciever and a set of ear phones and the guide can talk to us via a little radion microphone), at least we had a better idea of what we were looking at.
This tower belongs to an old church. The church was closed and subsequently turned into a fire station in the 1900s. The tower was used as a lookout, and fire engines could be shown which direction they needed to take to reach a fire with a flame in the window.
Our tour included a coffee and a danish pastry before we were to all to climb aboard one of the boats for a 50 minute ride through the city's canals. Unfortunately, one of the passengers in my group became ill, so I had to return with her in a taxi to the ship and miss the ride.
Peter came back a little later, saying the canal boat road wasn't that special anyway (bless him), and we went out again after lunch, mostly to see a few things at our own pace, tour groups can be hurried sometimes.
Our favourite is the fountain depicting the goddess Gefjun who was promised the land she could plough in a night, so she turned her four sons into bulls to assist her in the task. The detail of the fountain is awesome, I've mentioned the "steam" coming out of the bulls noses before.
I also wanted to have a proper look at a sculpture I'd seen on our tour in the morning
and we were looking for some ibruprofen, as I was having a bit of a problem with my knee. We failed to find the ibrufen, but we did walk back following the fort wall and stumble across this war memorial.
The most poignant thing about it was that on the section showing the list on names of those that had died, space had been deliberately left for more.
The ship sailed at 5 o'clock, and we enjoyed the usual routine of dinner in the Bistro followed by the show. Tonight we were entertained by The Stage Door Jonnies, a couple of ladies who were well into their pension years but who had us in tears of laughter. We look forward to seeing them again.
So that was Copenhagen. Tomorrow we are in Warnemunde, we are on the "Molli and the Minster" tour in the afternoon, so we get a lie in and the chance for a walk around the town in the morning. I enjoyed our last visit, so I'm looking forward to seeing the place again in the morning.
Peter and I did a lot of walking last time we visited, so we've already seen many of the sights we were shown on tour. But with the guide explaining everything via our little audio boxes (each person is given a little reciever and a set of ear phones and the guide can talk to us via a little radion microphone), at least we had a better idea of what we were looking at.
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| This carved stone can be found on the sea front. It depicts a group of Danish explorers who all died on a trip to Greenland. On the back of the stone the last entry of the diary of the last explorer is carved. |
Our tour included a coffee and a danish pastry before we were to all to climb aboard one of the boats for a 50 minute ride through the city's canals. Unfortunately, one of the passengers in my group became ill, so I had to return with her in a taxi to the ship and miss the ride.
Our favourite is the fountain depicting the goddess Gefjun who was promised the land she could plough in a night, so she turned her four sons into bulls to assist her in the task. The detail of the fountain is awesome, I've mentioned the "steam" coming out of the bulls noses before.
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| The Gefion Fountain |
I also wanted to have a proper look at a sculpture I'd seen on our tour in the morning
and we were looking for some ibruprofen, as I was having a bit of a problem with my knee. We failed to find the ibrufen, but we did walk back following the fort wall and stumble across this war memorial.
The ship sailed at 5 o'clock, and we enjoyed the usual routine of dinner in the Bistro followed by the show. Tonight we were entertained by The Stage Door Jonnies, a couple of ladies who were well into their pension years but who had us in tears of laughter. We look forward to seeing them again.
So that was Copenhagen. Tomorrow we are in Warnemunde, we are on the "Molli and the Minster" tour in the afternoon, so we get a lie in and the chance for a walk around the town in the morning. I enjoyed our last visit, so I'm looking forward to seeing the place again in the morning.
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| And Finally. No trip to Copenhagen can be complete without a picture of the Little Mermaid. |
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