Finally… Vacation!
Woman in the Middle | August 25, 2013I have finally downloaded our photos and can begin to take you on a little arm-chair tour of northern Europe. I hope you enjoy the trip and just think, your feet won’t hurt like mine did!
Our cruise began in Copenhagen, Denmark. We arrived a day and a half early so we could see at least a bit of Copenhagen before getting on the ship. Our friends had been to Copenhagen before so we let them decided what to see. Well, except if an excessive amount of stairs were involved then I usually said no thank you!
Denmark is known for its open-faced sandwiches so I had one of those our first night in Copenhagen. Here is my delicious dinner.
You might be wondering what exactly I have here. It is actually potatoes, red onion, bacon, and mayonnaise piled on top of a good, dark Danish bread. It was delicious!
The following day we took a canal cruise. There are two canal cruises you can take. One is at the very top of the canal in the Nyhavn area, so it is the first thing you see. It was quite expensive. But we had been told to look to the right a little further down the canal for the Netto boat tour, which was exactly the same. What a bargain! It was only about $8 a person while the other tour was over $20 a person. Here are some of the things we saw on our tour.
This is the famous Little Mermaid statue. Every picture you see of it makes it look like it is way out in the water, doesn’t it? Well, as you can see here, it sits very close to shore. Sorry to burst your tourist bubble like that!
We saw beautiful rows of house like these along the canals.
There are picturesque bridges over the canals. They are very low and we had to sit down so we didn’t bump our noggin when the boat went under the bridge. As you can see one of my fellow tourists was also taking a photo of the bridge!
After the boat tour we walked over to the castle to see the Danish crown jewels. My Friend Barb knowns how much I like gold and precious gems! Surprisingly, they let you take photos of the collection on display. Look what they have:
That night we went back to the picturesque Nyhavn area to have dinner. We ate outside, as was everyone else, because buildings in Europe don’t tend to have a lot of air conditioning in the summer. It is hard to justify something that is needed for just a few weeks a year!
After dinner, we couldn’t resist having some ice cream from the little ice cream place we saw earlier. It is hard to see, but they added whipped cream and marshmallow cream to the top of my cone. I had never seen that done before. The marshmallow cream had to go (not a huge fan) but the unsweetened whipped cream was so thick and a little bite of it with a bite of ice cream was heavenly!
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