Copenhagen and Sea day

Copenhagen

Absolutely stunning.

Friday 8th August 2014  Day 28 (day 13 of the cruise).

Copenhagen, Denmark.

In 1397 Denmark, Sweden and Norway joined forces to form the larges Viking Empire in history. Copenhagen was the capital.

Now it’s a stunning city with no Vikings.

What a view to see out your window.  NOT a blight on the landscape at all!!!

We started the day off by purchasing very expensive tickets for the Hop on hop off bus and off we went. This company turned out to be the “wait a long time” company as we spent more time waiting then we did driving.

But we did see many wonderful things.

We went to the Carlsberg Brewery – which was named after the son of the rounder.  Archaeology shows that Denmark has been brewing beer for over 5000 years. They have always had a strong brew and each farm would brew their own. The farms that brewed the best and strongest brew were able to attract the best workers and were therefore the best farms!

There was one very strange part of the recorded commentary. Driving through a busy shopping area we were informed that this area used to be a slum but in the 60’s the council decided to do it up and make it useful. It went on to tell us that there were now many lovely shops in the area and “that many of the businesses were owned by immigrants form China, Thailand and the Middle East!”  ??????

We were then sick of sitting on a parked bus for long periods of time o decided to get out and walk. And we walked through some stunning area.

We walked down many of the canal streets and found Sarah a coffee. It was very small and cost $8.00!

Christiana was our next stop - a commune in the middle of Copenhagen.  It has pretty well been deserted by the town council and is full of squatters. The police ignore it and although drugs are illegal a very blind eye is turned.

We then walked around a bit more and found the pick up spot for the canal boat tour and jumped on.

It was fantastic. Among all of these wonderful old buildings were super modern amazing building.  Note – Their Opera House s not as nice as ours!!!!

We saw the mobs of people queuing to see the tiny statue of the (very) little mermaid, meet some swans and came back to the ship for a fun night.

Raina enjoying her last walk on these revolting cobble stones.

We had an 11 pm sail away today.  Out the window of the Concierge Club was a Bungy Jumping place.  We all sat drinking and watching.  AS the basket would start to go up one of us would cry "Basket Up!" and everyone would swivel around to watch the fool pay perfectly good money to jump off a perfectly good crane! Some people would dip into the ocean and of course the cheers from us all were loud and long.

Saturday 9th August 2014  Day 29 (day 14 of the cruise).

Raina's Birthday.

Having a lovely relaxing day.

Dale, our room steward has been the best steward we have had for a long time. He has been making us wonderful towel animals.  This morning we thought we would reward him with a towel creature.

"Did you guys make that for me? Do you make it for ME?" in his very strong Jamaican accent.  

Lunch at Izumis Sushi was lovely with a great view.

We hit a big storm. Seas were not high - less than 2 or 3 metres but 60 MPH winds. It is great. Rain lashing the windows, deck chairs shooting across the deck. Very fun to watch.

 We all had a fun evening at the Concierge Club.

Eddie and Sammi our drinks guys looked after us in style.

As did Luca the Concierge.

Albert and Tom, and Paul joined us for dinner at Chops. We all had fun.  Some people had a steak for one!

Others had a steak for eight!!!!

And wasted much of it.

But we al had a great night!

And a final towel animal from Dale (No-one usually gets a towel animal on the last night! Especially a lobster).

In the morning - they kick us off their ship.  Sad Face!