Copenhagen, the days all blur together

So, my cold has gone and my foot is somewhat better. However, Copenhagen is a city of stone streets and not much rest, so it gets tiring fast.

Sunday, we ventured to the tourist district of Nyhavn. Maybe it’s popular because of the canals, but on a grey Sunday morning, with masses of litter and broken glass, sullen locals and clueless tourists, it was utterly charmless.

There was a sand sculpture thing going on but we didn’t feel like paying to go in

We went to the national museum in the afternoon. Saw this on the way

Museum was hot and heaving, and so not my thing. Doug loved it, of course. These are rune stones and some viking treasure

Next day we had our Copenhagen cards in hand, so while i took a train ride around the top of zealand through Helsingor ( ie where Hamlet’s castle lives) in the rain, Doug went to Roskilde and the viking ship museum. He had the camera

That evening we went to the Tivoli Gardens, a sort of permanent amusement park cum pleasure gardens in the centre of the surprising small and walkable city

It’s more or less opposite Radhusplatz, or the Town Hall square (where i’d earlier picked up some free postcards and had a look at the stunning central hall)

Next day we went to the Blue Planet, a new aquarium with an impressive shell, but contents i’d seen before many times, with the exception of the captive puffins which i’d thought was bloody cruel, tbh

Great view over the sea from the cafe

And however much your life might suck, thank your deity of choice that you don’t have to dress up as a blue hammerhead shark and sing stupid songs to kids in a squeaky voice all day for a living

Or feed this enormous tank of piranha!

In the afternoon, we went to the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, which is having a special exhibition on Degas’ Method. Quite stunning, but the regular collection is also something, especially the sculpture. The building is also gorgeous with a huge and lovely central atrium. I was worn out after two,hours, but doug stayed the rest of the day

It is also imperative to mention the bloody bicycle menace. Every path is strewn with them or being ridden down by them, and when they’re knocked over by a passerby, the person never stops to pick it up – passive aggressive reaction to the fact that cyclists in Copenhagen are just as brainless, entitled and thoughtless as every else, even though they are catered to so thoroughly with dedicated cycle paths and special train carriage accomodations

Today is wet, so i’m puttering about doing houseworky type things and resting,while doug does more of the national museum. Tomorrow we’re off to Aarhus in Jutland, another one of Denmark’s islands.