The birthday girl - AKA Nicola - arrives in Copenhagen

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Nicola has landed!! She flew in from Paris and was met by Katherine while I looked after the girls as Thomas had work to do. On Nic's first evening in Copenhagen myself and my two lovely daughters went out for a bite to eat and some chit-chat.

The next day was Nic's actual birthday so we started the day as we ended it...eating! It began with morning tea at Perch's Tea Rooms, a business which started in 1835. It is the oldest tea shop in Europe offering 130 different varieties of tea.

Thomas then took us all to Frederiksborg Castle in the afternoon. A palace built as a Royal residence for King Christian IV, it is now a museum of national history situated at Hillerød which is 37 kms from Copenhagen. The weather remained beautiful for our visit, a wonderful bonus.

No sooner were we back at the apartment than Sienna & Evie's babysitter arrived enabling the rest of us to head off for Nicola's birthday dinner held at a Copenhagen restaurant called Pluto. We chose the 12 course degustation which was delicious. While it might sound a lot it really wasn't as when we left we'd only had an elegant sufficiency but were not overly stuffed. The birthday girl loved it so that's really all that mattered!!

Day one of the start of the birthday girl's new year began with a Canal Tour which started at Nyhavn, lasting one hour. All three of us enjoyed it, having left Thomas at home looking after the girls. This was followed by a visit to the National Museum of Denmark and specifically a Viking exhibition. I was reminded of the Lindisfarne Gospels; indeed mention was made of them in a quote from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written in 793 CE. "...soon followed a great famine, and after that in the same year the harrying of the heathen miserably destroyed God's church in Lindisfarne by rapine and slaughter."

The museum visit was followed by yet more eating at a restaurant called Maven in what was once Nicholas Church and in an area which, in the 1880's Copenhagen's butchers kept their stalls.

Now is the time to start re-packing as, once again it's an early start as I have a 6.55am plane to catch to Paris. All good things come to an end!!

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Photos

Downtown Valby
And the café Katherine & I found ourselves in!!

The birthday girl & her little sis
...outside Perch's Tea Shop

Nicola, Katherine, Evie, Thomas & Sienna
In the castle courtyard

Thomas, Katherine, Nicola & Michelle
A birthday girl's dinner at Pluto's Restaurant, Copenhagen

Frederik's Church near the Amalienborg Palace
The church is popularly known as the Marble Church because of its architecture

Viking Cask & clothes
Part of the exhibits for the Viking exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark

Goodbye Katherine
At least for the time being!

Comments

[Neta]

Happy Birthday
A very Happy Belated Birthday to Nicola. xxx Looks like you have had lovely weather in Denmark

[michelleandkev]

Great weather everywhere I go!
I must bring it with me...hope so since it rained earlier for a short while.

[Martha]

What wonderful times you're having with family and friends and what good memories you'll have from this trip. Yes, it is worth it, and yes, we'll have lots to talk about when we both get back.--Martha