What a beautiful city. Home of Tivoli Gardens, the inspiration for Walt Disney's Disneyland (in case you are wondering who to blame). Very colorful, wonderfully nice people.
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| Old city area. |
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| The other side of the canal. Mostly restaurants now, quite touristy. But pretty nonetheless. |
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| My notes are weird, but I believe the house on the left is the former home of Hans Christian Anderson. (or maybe the middle?) |
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| This warship has the dubious honor of being in docked right where its at… and a live mortar was launched on mistake during routine cleaning/inspection. Whoops. |
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| The Mastekranen. Built in 1748 in order to pull ship masts completely upright before placing on ships. A modern military ship sits in front for perspective. |
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| Historic naval dockyards at Holmen. They still fire a cannon when raising the flag and lowering it. (Sunrise and sunset, respectively.) |
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| The landing area of the Royal Yacht for when the Royal Family goes on holiday. They were on holiday to Iceland when we arrived, so I didn't get an invite to have tea. ;-) |
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| Our hotel. Built in 1787. Was originally built as a warehouse then used as the royal granary. |
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| Blue Cathedral. |
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| Another cathedral. You can actually walk the walkway outside the spire. We passed on the opportunity. I did not feel like having a) height induced panic attack b) puking on the lovely Danish people. |
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| According to our tour guide. At one time when houses were built, they were taxed according to the building footprint. So they made them skinny and tall. |
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| Copenhagen City hall. |
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| Jens Olsen's World/Astronomical Clock. Very cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Olsen's_World_Clock |
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| Another pretty cathedral, part of a former military complex. |
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| The Little Mermaid. |
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| Our room showing the original timbers of the building. |
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