{"id":501,"date":"2012-07-04T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T19:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2012-07-04T20:44:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T19:44:30","slug":"happy-4th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/happy-4th-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 4th July!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today was out of Copenhagen &#8211; up early, well earlyish. Last night was noisy so when the alarm went off we decided to stay in bed for a bit. Still got the train we wanted to catch, the 8.55 to Helsing\u00f8r (yay &#8211; copy paste works for the extra Danish letters!) Got to\u00a0Helsing\u00f8r about 9.45 and headed for the\u00a0\u00a0\u00d8resundsakvariet (aquarium with animals from the\u00a0\u00a0\u00d8resund area; which is much like the marine animals you&#8217;ll find around the UK! It is very small, but has lots in it. Unfortunately it also had a lot of very small children so we didn&#8217;t last long in there! (Kathleen&#8217;s found how to do o with lines in them in the blog).<\/p>\n<p>Then off to <a title=\"Kronborg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kronborgcastle.com\/\">Kronborg<\/a> &#8211; the castle that\u00a0supposedly\u00a0Shakespeare used for the setting for Hamlet! Very nice place with lots to see. We had another wonderful day, lots of sunshine and hot, so we ended up not walking around the ramparts. We did\u00a0however\u00a0see everything inside! Started with the chapel and the royal apartments (more large rooms with\u00a0paintings\u00a0and tapestries and seats you can&#8217;t sit on) then the Maritime Museum which was quite intersting very UK in feel and evolution. We also headed up the tower, then down to the casements (where it was quite cold!) and trying to\u00a0imagine\u00a01000 other people packed in there with only oil lamps. The tower gave great view of the area, including Sweden. Didn&#8217;t need to go up the tower to see Sweden though,\u00a0could\u00a0see it when we got off the train! Having walked our legs off, we then headed for\u00a0Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Louisiana art museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.louisiana.dk\/uk\/Service+Menu+Left\/Home\">Louisiana<\/a> the modern art museum rather than the state in\u00a0the\u00a0US! It&#8217;s a lovely\u00a0museum\u00a0with lots to see; we managed the exhibit on Nordic design, mainly\u00a0architecture (<a title=\"Nordic exhibit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.louisiana.dk\/uk\/Menu\/Exhibitions\/New+Nordic\">New Nordic &#8211; Architecture and Identity<\/a>)\u00a0and went through <a title=\"Pink Caviar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.louisiana.dk\/uk\/Menu\/Exhibitions\/Pink+Caviar\">Pink Caviar<\/a>, the exhibit of new items, but we were getting so tired that we had to give up and head back to Copenhagen! I really wanted to see more of the gardens but we just couldn&#8217;t manage to walk any more.<\/p>\n<p>So got the train back, but the one we aimed for was late and then very very slow, so we got back a bit later than we expected. Still in time to go to <a title=\"Els\" href=\"http:\/\/www.restaurant-els.dk\/index_uk.html\">Els<\/a> for dinner; we&#8217;d seen it last night but weren&#8217;t hungry enough to eat there. Tonight we were hungry and realised we&#8217;d missed meals in the day! So we had a three course dinner and it was very nice.<\/p>\n<p>Now back at the hotel for a final drink then bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today was out of Copenhagen &#8211; up early, well earlyish. Last night was noisy so when the alarm went off we decided to stay in bed for a bit. Still got the train we wanted to catch, the 8.55 to Helsing\u00f8r (yay &#8211; copy paste works for the extra Danish letters!) Got to\u00a0Helsing\u00f8r about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-85","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":368,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/to-see-orchid\/","url_meta":{"origin":501,"position":0},"title":"To see orchids","date":"Sunday, 6 June 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We have been trying to get out to Cheshunt, to see the orchids in the Lee Valley Park. The are several trails and boardwalks . 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So here I am, wanting to play with my brand new, just opened this morning DS and instead I'm updating the blog. Up early, breakfast (why?), open presents (yea!), then start lunch. Lots and lots and lots\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Frog Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/08\/the-day-after-the-night-before\/","url_meta":{"origin":501,"position":3},"title":"The day after the night before","date":"Sunday, 8 October 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The pub on Friday night was fun. Lots and lots of fun. So much fun that we had a very very slow start to Saturday. One of those starts that involved long hot showers, a bit of coffee, lots of juice, and lots of sitting on the sofa looking outside\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4085,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/21\/what-did-the-romans-ever-do-for-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":501,"position":4},"title":"What did the Romans ever do for us?","date":"Thursday, 21 March 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Guess where we are!\u00a0 Stayed at Gatwick last night - had dinner at home then headed out to Gatwick, but as the Gatwick Express was running late or even cancelling trains it took us a bit longer then we planned. 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