Copin' with Copenhagen

Our training into town was a false economy. Parking for the day plus two return tickets far outweighed the cost of parking in the city. (Though I may have cocked up that equation by putting the wrong numberplate number in the parking machine - transposing two digits. Time will  tell.) Anyway, we got a park just outside the citadel which was perfect. A hop, skip and a jump to the little mermaid as well, which was as underwhelming as we'd been warned.

The orchid is looking lovely. Just thought I'd add a splash of colour to procedings.

Citadel  moat, just outside the door.

And something for wildlife lovers

The fort that guarded the mouth of the harbour

Marina and larger visitor

Some more of the Danish navy. I love that old crane.

 And here she is. And some of the crowd trying to get that shot.

Actually I lied in the caption above. This was the view from our carpark.

Reggie at rest. I hate city driving, but we got there in one piece.

The Citadel barracks

Citadel parade ground and church

Citadel exit

Lots of wandering today, with the Christianshavn a sort of goal. It was bloody hot again, so shade was key.

More navy shots. It looked like a museum but there was no mention in the guide book

There was even another sub.

That's Thumbellina sitting on J's arm, at the entrance to the palace complex.

Once she'd shaken him off we wandered in.

They're not shabby by any means, but we'd seen enough palaces.

That pose has got to be pretty damned uncomfortable I'd have thought. Those rifles aren't light.

Inside Frederik's church

 We didn't actually go inside the palaces (except to use their loos) but kept moving down to the 'Black Diamond', the city's new archive building.

The inside view of the Black Diamond. I found it vertiginous.

This is their old archive reading room

Then we went looking for the Jewish museum which the guide book recommended highly but which didn't seem to exist. (Our guide book recommended a city museum which also failed to exist and a 11A circle line bus which went extinct 18 months ago.) Instead we snuck into the Architecture museum without paying. There were architectural models of some pretty cool buildings all over the world, some built, some yet to be.

This VR experience had you walking the plank over the atrium and then floating down to the atrium floor. Both J and I chickened out completely even though our conscious minds knew it wasn't real.

We then crossed over the harbour to Christianshavn, intending to go to Christiania,  the alternative lifestyle area of Copenhagen. We sat for lunch on the canal and listened to the same commentary repeated by every tourist boat coming through,regarding this church, and the canal-side  tree that can't usually be excluded from tourist's shots.

Sadly we ran out of time and didn't get to Christiania at all.

The heat had bathers out all around the harbour, so the water is obviously not too bad. The same day people drowned swimming in the Thames (and probably a whole lot more got sick).

We're not sure why this was necessary, nor why the subject is nude. Some people must have some very different toileting habits!

I think Anders Lassen may have fought in Italy. The name is familiar.

Doesn't this look like Christchurch used to?

Anyway, we moved on, this time to a whole new country! Yes, we crossed the Olessund Bridge, famous from the Danish/Swedish series The Bridge. We didn't notice any bodies anywhere on it.

We ended up in Landskrona,  north of Malmo. It was another busy marina stop, where we laughed as campers kept arriving until very late, even though it was full. How could they leave things so late? Fools!

Showerometer: 17