{"id":689,"date":"2018-08-31T05:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T05:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrisinfo.org\/?p=689"},"modified":"2018-08-31T05:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T05:58:29","slug":"copenhagen-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrisinfo.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/31\/copenhagen-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is our last port before returning to Amsterdam. These are shots from our balcony on arrival.<\/p>\n

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Copenhagen from balcony 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen from balcony 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen from balcony 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paul was never going to get a on another Hop on Hop off bus after our experience in Stockholm. But I managed to convince him to try the bus without even considering the canal boat ride. It turned out to be a much better day. Again the bus was at the port to collect us. We just did a full loop and returned to the ship. The buses all missed a few stops as the French President was in town to meet with the Queen. I guess that\u2019s why Mary was not out to greet the Aussies! The traffic was extremely\u00a0 slow and again we can see why people ride bicycles. It is a much quicker way to get around and it is all so flat. This would not work in other cities. Copenhagen hopes to be carbon neutral by 2025. What I did notice though was the huge number of local buses with very few passengers. This was actually the cause of a lot of the traffic holdups around the city.<\/p>\n

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Copenhagen Museum of Art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Bikes 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Bikes 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Fountain 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Architecture 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Hans Christian Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Scandic Palace Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Scandic Palace Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Canal 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Tower 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Tower 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Architecture 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Copenhagen Canal 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Architecture 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Canal 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Royal houses where Queen and guests wait for ferry. Queen’s has the crown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Statue of Thor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Statue and fountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Coffee van<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we returned to the pier we went to the bar across from the ship as we had some kroner to spend. It was a real eye opener. It was a shisha bar. I was very hesitant when I saw ashtrays on the tables inside. I thought, I will only be a here a few minutes. It ended up being a very pleasant few hours s no one smoked cigarettes inside and we saw one man using the shisha water pipe at a table some distance from us. See Paul\u2019s video for more on this.<\/p>\n

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Copenhagen Shisha Bar Beer and Snapple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The toilets were downstairs and that was another surprise. It was called the White Bar. All white furniture, pink lights on the dance floor and very new and clean.<\/p>\n

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Copenhagen Shisha Bar White Bar downstairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Copenhagen Shisha Bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I left Paul in the bar to enjoy a few beers and went further along to the souvenir shops for a while. They actually accepted kroner, euros and US dollars in that area near the pier. I am not sure if they would have accepted all those currencies in town.<\/p>\n