And On The Second Day...

 Prelude:

The breakfast buffet at  Hotel St. Petri is all 

you would expect plus charcuterie, herring, 

lox, fresh vegetables, many kinds of freshly 

baked  breads, rolls and pastries plus many 

types of juice and cereals. Later on I may give 

it a photo spread to do it justice.

A rare sunny day in Copenhagen.

On the second day we started with a classic 

canal tour in an open boat - which gave us 

the added thrill of ducking our heads for 

some bridges that barely let us through.

The tour guide gave his spiel in Danish, 

English and Swedish. The tour took about 

an hour and showed us some interesting 

views of the city from its watery arteries. 

I post them below with captions.

The starting place of our canal tour on
Ved Stranden.

Sunny scene from the boat. The popular
Nyhaven.

Copenhagen's famous Little Mermaid seen
from the boat. The fame of this sculpture is a
mystery to me.

A bronze replica of Michelangelo's David
stands on the left of this building.
It is part of the enormous artistic
contribution to the city made by 
Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914),
founder of the Carlsberg beer dynasty.
This includes the Glyptoteket museum
and the Orsted park, both of which
we visited two days later.

 

The Royal Residence. Yes, Denmark
is a monarchy. Queen Margrethe II
ascended the throne on the death of
her father, King Frederick IX, in 1972.

The glass front of the "Black Diamond" 

- the National Library reflects the canal 

and looks like a waterfall from a distance. 

The 1999 building was designed by 

Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen 

and has a concert hall where we will hear 

Vivaldi et al on Saturday.

Closer view of the Black Diamond
Our boat is reflected just above
the central entrance.

The tower of the Church of our Savior.
When we saw it from the boat
and learned you can get to the top by
climbing 400 steps we put it on
our list of things to do. And
an hour later... there we are at the top!

It took a combination of internal wooden
spiral stairs hundreds of years old and...

a final external metal stairway
ending just about where Emma is standing.
The 360-degree views of Copenhagen
were spectacular.

On the way back to the hotel for a nap 

we saw some good examples of the 

full spectrum of Danish design from 

the "low" end to the "high" end.

Cafe bench with small table fastened to the bench.

Boat cafe with wooden cable spools used as tables.

Hermes shop windows in which products
were cleverly incorporated into scenes.

Finally, an old dragon drainpipe on the
main shop building of Royal Copenhagen.

In the evening, we had a wonderful dinner 

at the Pescatarian restaurant where I took 

only one picture - a clove of "black" garlic. 

I will save my energy for a rave review on 

Trip Advisor. They gave us a fascinating 

tour of the kitchens and, among many things, 

told us how they prepared one of their ingredients.

Garlic cloves are cooked for TWO MONTHS 

at 60 degrees Celsius, then rested in sealed 

containers for 25 days. 

A lousy photo. But what a day!

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