Last night we set the room thermostat to 5C. It barely got cooler than ambient temperature. And couldn't open the window either.
Breakfast had a bigger selection of food, on account of being a much bigger hotel. They had potato and mushrooms which was nice.
Hopped on the 7:36 #635 bus to the terminals (it was super packed :( ).
Got to terminal 2 and there was a Subway (I really felt like Subway for dinner last night but we didn't find it - doh!).
Used the machines to check out suitcases through and that worked pretty well. Went through security, where they got me to turn the camera on and take a photo to make sure it really was a camera. And got a tarmac tour to get to the plane.
The flight was on a CRJ-900 which I've never been on before. Much like a 717. And if I'd known that I would have tried for a seat much further forward in front of the wing. But it was ok because the engines are further back. Except the windows were full of condensation which frosted up and made photographs pretty terrible. No snackages on the plane (unless you buy them) so just had some water. The south of Germany was all cloudy, but it cleared up as we went further north. Flew over the Malmo bridge which was super cool :)
Flying over the Elbe River
German countryside
Rostock from the air
Øresund Bridge
Øresund Bridge
Interior of the CRJ-900
SAS Bombadier CRJ-900 OY-KFI at Copenhagen Airport
Photo by Mum
Got to Copenhagen but our bags didn't come up the appointed carousel. And we weren't the only ones missing bags. But they finally finally came up - they must have lost a trolley along the way somewhere. Got some cash out, then waited for our transfer to the hotel from our tour group.
Mum putting a piece into the mosaic at the Lego Store in Copenhagen Airport
We got a 15th floor room, but sadly facing away from the city. No aircon to speak of either. But the window opens so hopefully it'll cool down overnight.
Happy power point is happy!
When we got here I needed to grab something light for lunch. Except I've said before, Copenhagen is *huge*, and it took a full half an hour to walk from our hotel to somewhere with light food options. After walking up and down a pedestrian section near the town hall I gave up and chose the Scottish Restaurant, because you can get small meals there (I just had some fries with mayo).
Ny Christiansborg building in Copenhagen
East entrance to Tivoli Gardens
Photo by Mum
Statue of Hans Christian Andersen by Henry Luckow-Nielsen
Scandic Palace Hotel
Københavns Rådhus (Copenhagen City Hall)
View along the Slotsholmen Canal
View to Nikolaj Kunsthal (Nikolaj Art Gallery) in the old St. Nicholas Church
Christiansborg Palace and Frederiksholm Canal
Christiansborg Palace and Marmorbroen bridge over the Frederiksholm Canal
Christiansborg Palace
Christiansborg Palace
Christiansborg Palace
Canal boat on Frederiksholm Canal
Segway tour crossing Prinsens Bro
Ørstedsparken (Ørsteds Park)
Photo by Mum
Building and boat on Frederiksholm Canal
By the time I got back to the hotel, two hours had passed :(:( So much for a quiet afternoon catching up on blogging, backing up photos etc. Only got an hour before we had to head down for the tour starting meeting and dinner.
Dinner was ok - a bit of a buffet, so could regulate what we ate a bit better. They also included a couple of drinks, which may be the last I have on this trip on account of the price of everything here.
After dinner we headed out again - up to Tivoli Gardens. This was originally on the itinerary for this tour, but in recent week wasn't on the itinerary for the tour on their website. So I was a bit annoyed that we'd paid to go see and wouldn't get to (it's ~20AUD just to get in). So that was pretty good that we did in fact get to go in. Had a lovely wander through the park. Wanted to go on some rides but it was all too complicated with bags and stuff and not really having enough time. Even got some freshly made fairy floss which you can't get in Australia anymore, you can only get packed stuff. So that was all very nice and it was all very pretty as the lights came on.
Bicycles outside the north entrance of Tivoli Gardens
North entrance of Tivoli Gardens
Himmelskibet ride at Tivoli Gardens
Nimb Hotel (1909)
Himmelskibet ride at Tivoli Gardens
Dæmonen (The Demon) ride entrance
Chinese pavilion at Tivoli Gardens
Dæmonen (The Demon) roller coaster
Fatamorgana ride at Tivoli Gardens
Flowers at Tivoli Gardens
Chinese pavilion at Tivoli Gardens
Tivoli Gardens
Pirate ship at Tivoli Gardens
Lights and pond at Tivoli Gardens
Pond at Tivoli Gardens
Hans Christian Andersen Castle at Tivoli Gardens
Nimb Hotel at dusk
Ducks outside the Nimb Hotel
Peacock outside the Nimb Hotel
Nimb Hotel lights
Tivolis Springvand (Tivoli Fountains) at dusk
Lights in Tivoli Gardens
Tivoli Gardens
Lights in Tivoli Gardens
Inside of the north entrance of Tivoli Gardens
Except.
We got back to the entrance one minute late (on account of *hoards* of people coming in the gates) and there was *noone* there. So we thought we'd misunderstood the meeting place. Mum stayed there while I went to the other place I thought maybe we should have been meeting. Twice. But no. They'd all fricken gone off without us. So now we're going to have a reputation with the rest of the tour (forty fricken people) as being people to be late and hold everyone up. Completely pissed off about it all.
And it's late.
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