Blogs from Copenhagen, Region Hovedstaden, Denmark, Europe - page 71

Rather excited as I've just set up my profile on Travelblog.org to document and share my impending journey to become an EFL teacher in Asia and all other travelling. Just feel though it would be a shame to not share some of my more recent past trips with others. Only really going to post photos of these trips and perhaps add some more text at a later date. Denmark and Sweden: Last year my Mum and I took a trip to Norway in the run up to Christmas and had a great time, so we decided to do something similar this year and go to Copenhagen and Malmo. Flew into Copenhagen and once checked into our hotel went straight to Tivoli Gardens, a theme park come garden that in the run up to Christmas transforms into ... read more

Geo: 55.7037, 12.5978Still in a hotel Comfort Mayfair in Copenhagen as obv. finding accomodation not so easy til you get your bearings - so as I said we are near Red Light District which is fun to venture through & go to 'Spunk bar' (Spunk is a danish sweet!) & is a 'normal' bar for that neighbourhood - but at least we have a suite now for same price as an ordinary room (which was decent of the hotel) as we will be staying for a month in total here. The majority of hotels are based around there which a bit strange but its easy to avoid the RLD, in fact when I was in a hotel across the road last year with Mum we didn't even notice what was around the corner! It's all perfectly ... read more

Geo: 55.6763, 12.5681Arrived 21:30 last night no hassle, airport train even less hassle then turn left out of Central Station & voila in Hotel district (also red light district incidently but it all seems grand). Went for a pretty expensive Indian which also seemed the restaurant is an entrance to a night club, very entertaining ....... read more

Copenhagen is home to 1 million people including all the suburbs and is a really cool city. The weather was amazing when I was there which according to Katrine with whom I stayed (my friend from India) is unusual for this time of year. There certainly is plenty to do here, you need a big wallet though as it is even more expensive than London!!! There is a law that no building can be higher than 5 storeys in the city and being that Denmark is virtually all at sea level you don't get many opportunities to see the city from a vantage point. There is however a very tall gothic church in Christian Town called Vorfrelsers Kirke (Our Saviours Church) which was well worth the climb as the views were excellent. It does not look ... read more

Wonderful Copenhagen The pre-arranged cab guy from the night before turned up when he was supposed to and we made our way to the airport, luckily it was Saturday morning and the traffic was quiet. I managed to check my bag into storage which was a relief. I bought some Australian wine - one of my favourites together with some Cadbury’s chocolate (which you can’t get in Denmark) for my chocolate monster friend, David, who collected me from the airport. After dumping my stuff off, we caught a train down town, and started checking out the city sights. It was an absolutely perfect day, with the sun shining, so first up we took a canal cruise which took in the Black Diamond Library - which is made of black marble, the Opera House which was built ... read more

Here I am in Copenhagen with Anna Laura and Kevin. AL and Kevin spent most of the time at the DNA Repair Conference, but I had plently of time to wander around Copenhagen. In the picture you can see the new Opera House in the background. I also went to visit the famous Tivoli Gardens, a prototype of the modern day theme parks. You can see me and Kevin as we were watching a parade of the characters of Hans Christian Andersen's stories. ... read more