We decided to start today with a visit to a Danish Design Museum (another place full of chairs you can’t sit on, this may be a theme in Denmark) (K – but they were lovely and well designed chairs!) The\u00a0museum\u00a0didn’t open until 11, so we looked for a place to get breakfast which today ended up being coffee and a cream cheese bagel in a little cafe near the\u00a0museum. After breakfast we still had half an hour to kill, but we noticed across the road from the cafe rows of identical ochre terraced houses. These turned out to be 18th\u00a0century\u00a0copies of one of the Danish Kings earlier town planning exercises of which there was one original block left which we found. There is a\u00a0museum\u00a0in there, but only open on Sundays. (K – History stuff, it’s Nyboder, built by Christian IV, so early 1600s, for free housing for his sailors. The planning was apparently well ahead of its time, with wide streets and an open grid pattern. But the originals were tiny, not much larger when a second story was added in the 17th century, rather than the 18th!)<\/p>\n
So we got to the Danish Design\u00a0Museum\u00a0and as predicted lots of chairs and other stuff. K – right this was my choice and it was the Kunsindustrimuseet (Danish Museum of Art and Design), down by the Kastellet, rather than the newer design museum near Tivoli. Yes, there are two. Or more. Joe scowled when he learned that so I limited myself to the one. Which started with early design and moved through to the 20th century – even had an English room! Yes, with chairs you couldn’t sit in. The Danish design information was good and the items really lovely – one of my favourite pieces was the Art Nouveau cupboard, really lovely. Also all the art\u00a0and\u00a0design pieces. We only did the ground floor then headed out.<\/p>\n
We headed to the Round Tower, which is a tower that is round. Not much in it, has a church, a library, and an observatory (K – all the good medieval scholar needs! Along\u00a0with\u00a0the two priveys.). But the library was\u00a0closed\u00a0as they were setting up an exhibition. There was also a little room (K – the bell tower) with stuff they’d found during\u00a0renovations. The only other interesting thing of note about the tower itself is that it is a brick\u00a0spiral\u00a0slope\u00a0with\u00a0only stairs at the very top. We went up and had a look as the\u00a0observatory\u00a0was closed and had a good view over\u00a0the\u00a0city from the top – could even see the bridge to Malmo (K – and Sweden!) K – another building built by Christian IV – he got everywhere. This one build around 1640.<\/p>\n
We then headed down to the Danish equivalent of the Tower of London – i.e. where the royals store their jewels (K – Rosenborg Slot, which is more a small stately home than a large tower or castle). More paintings,\u00a0tapestries, and stuff; unfortunatley we hadn’t bought the guidebook before we went in so even though everything was numbered we have no idea what we were looking at! (K – the 25K guidebook has no pictures, just a list of numbers with descriptions; but if you want to know what you’re looking at in detail, buy it! Actually, if you just want to know what you’re looking at, buy it, \u00a0there are no descriptions in the rooms. Though you can use your mobile phone for a guided tour.) We had a quick look a the jewels and crowns before making our way to the final destination of the day – Tivoli.<\/p>\n
We were quite exhausted after all the walking, museums, slots, and walking so we\u00a0perused\u00a0the\u00a0various\u00a0restaurants looking for somewhere we could sit and eat; however, quite a few weren’t serving evening meals until 5pm. We found one that would allow us to sit and have a drink the 10 minutes before 5pm. We ordered\u00a0quite\u00a0a nice meal before leaving just before 7pm to catch the 7pm show at the Chinese Theatre (K – or Peacock Theatre, not sure what it’s actually called, just looked Chinese with a large peacock curtain which was nifty). We then wandered\u00a0around\u00a0looking at the rides and side shows before having an ice cream and wandering back to the hotel and resting feet! K – Joe makes it sound like we were there for an hour or so! We didn’t leave until 9.30pm or so! Dinner was lovely, the show was fun – a dance, walking around was nifty, there were bands playing and lots of people. Would have liked to ride the rides but they were expensive – the really nifty rides were almost \u00a310 a go! But by the time we left we were tired. Going to sleep soon, though can hear music playing on the waterfront from our room now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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