Wonderful, wonderful, Copenhagen, friendly old salt of the sea

We thought that camping out of town then training into Copenhagen would be easier than staying in. So we parked at the railway station in Koge and commuted. The weather has continued to be glorious so the city was seen in its best light. There were zillions of tourists as well, but you can't have everything.

Saint Nick's tower

Just a few bicycle's. Somewhere around 60% of the city dwellers bike to work. That's two legs,a torso and an arm. Dunno how the rest gets there.

Tivoli Gardens, which we didn't go in. We have visited several Danish amusement parks without amusing ourselves.

The Radhus, or Town Hall.

Hans Christian Anderson again.

There are several palaces in the city - Frederiksberg, Amelienborg, Christiansborg, Iceberg, Cyborg, etc, such that you can't see them all, or you will be exhausted if you try. We 'did' Amelienborg.

Some lovely detail (sorry its fuzzy)

Fancy chandeliers all over the show.

It's the 5th (?) palace on the location. Two burnt down within 100 years!

The stables never got burn't and have some impressive coaches on display. 

With temperatures in the high 20's/low30's it was nice to be inside for a while, but we couldn't do that all day, so we wandered around the Nyhavn, along with half the zillion other tourists all trying for exactly the same photos. Ah, what the hell!

Nyhavn (new harbour), with J in for scale. (And someone challenging her to rock/scissors/paper?)

Timeless.

And then I went back inside while J lurked about in the sun. It's my delicate complexion don't you know? This was inside a tower that unusually has spiral ramps rather than stairs. No explanation in the pamphlet but I suspect it is to allow equipment up there, such as the telescope for the observatory. It was built as part of the university.

Not a bad view from the top: There's St Nick's tower again on the left, Amelienborg in the distance and possibly the Radhus again.

The observatory only opens on Sundays,but here's a sneak  shot.

And here's Tycho Brahe, famous astronomer, and after whom a prominent moon crater is named. (And where the second monolith was found in 2001: A Space Odyssey.)

Since the Koge camp was smelly and full of mothersuckers we moved to a carpark in Noye Taastrup. We'd been there a few hours when the waste started to pong, so we did a late night dash up the motorway to a disposal point, before returning. We were the only ones in the carpark which was unusual. There was  quite a bit of development going on in the area and we got the impression that Denmark is not doing too badly economically.