A lazy start to the day, after the train journey. Once up a quick trip next door for coffee and a plan for the day. The plan is to walk Christianshavn and Christiania by the nature reserve, then back down via the opera house. This we did. So out to where the old fortifications are and start walking along the top (started at Lille Molle), soon you get to a wooden fence across the path that says you have reached the border of Christiania. So we carry on an look in at a permanent Glastonbury festival in look and feel. Further on still following the water is more like Port peroth meets out back USA. Small odd shacks and houses all along the water front and hidden back in the woods, with people\u00a0popping\u00a0up and little signs every where. After an hour or so we cut across and on to the main road and follow this round to the Naval station at the top of the island (Ed – the whole area is a series of small islands and to the north is the Naval station), to the art, design and film schools located in the old\u00a0barracks\u00a0just across from the Opera house. Here we spy a boat and floating platform cafe where we stop for lunch.<\/p>\n
Lunch was good – got sandwiches but the really good bit was the pudding we shared. We were told ‘chocolate cake with rhubarb sauce’ which sounded nice, so we got one with two spoons. Start eating and the sauce fizzes and then pops! It had space rocks (pop rocks) sprinkled in which was a very nice surprise.<\/p>\n
Having fortified ourselves with fizzy rhubarb, we then start the retun trip passing along the front of the Opera House and along the water way, then working in to the front of Christiania and across the\u00a0harbour\u00a0from our hotel. Once on the main strip we find a bench and sit for some people watching. We then headed to the train station to check prices & times. We pass Tivoli again much more active and we can see the rides that go above the\u00a0fence. Trains checked and prices, we swing by the tourst info and pick up our three day Copenhagn pass and a large book of what it lets us do. We then follow the main shopping street to the end of Nyhavn (the main food street) to the hotel. There was nothing really diffent in the shopping street (though there was a huge Lego shop, actually a couple of Lego shops). After dropping off the camera and bag off we popped out to Mac coys for a evening snack, which was very nice and started to plan the next three days in detail with our new Copenhagen book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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