Here are some images of sights Kevin and I witnessed walking around our first day in Copenhagen!
Our first look outside of the train station!
The Copenhagen Plaza! The hotel has a view over beautiful Tivoli and is located near both direct connections to the airport and the famous shopping street Ströget and Rådhusplatsen (City Hall Square).
O'Leary's, where Kevin used to eat at in Oslo! A sports bar that has 60 restaurants throughout Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Spain, and Singapore making it Sweden's largest restaurant chain.
Copenhagen is the bike capital of the world! Every day 1.3 million km are cycled in Copenhagen, with 36% of all citizens commuting to work, school or university by bicycle. Cycling is generally perceived as a healthier, environmentally friendly, cheaper and often quicker way around town than by public transport or car and it is therefore municipal policy for the number of commuters by bike to go up to 50% by 2015. Bicycles became common in Copenhagen at the beginning of the 20th century. The city's first bicycle path was established on Esplanaden in 1892. Copenhagen has an extensive network of cycle paths which sometimes have their own signal systems. There are around 350 km of cycle paths, separated from the car lanes as well as the pavement by curbs, while there are another 20 km of on-road cycle lanes, marked by a broad painted line.
This building wasn't on the map as anything but I thought it was pretty!
Trivola Gardens is a famous amusement park and pleasure gardens in Copenhagen. The amusement park opened in 1843 making it the second oldest amusement park in the world. Tivoli's founder, Georg Carstensen, obtained a five-year charter to create Tivoli by telling King Christian VIII that "when the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics". The monarch granted Carstensen use of roughly 15 acres of the fortified glacis outside Vesterport for an annual rent. Therefore, until the 1850s. The park is best known for its wooden roller coaster, Rutschebanen, or as some people call it, Bjergbanen (the Mountain Coaster), built in 1914 in Malmö, Sweden and moved to Tivoli Gardens in 1915. It is one of world's oldest wooden roller coasters that is still operating today.
The Tivoli Fountain infront of Nimb Hotel, Tivoli's Moorish Palace. Nimb is a five-star boutique hotel. The hotel is located in a historic building from 1909, built in a Moorish-inspired Historicist style. In 2009, Condé Nast Traveller ranked it as #40 on their list of the best hotels in the world.
Walking over Frederiksholmes Kanal, which is the part of the canal around Slotsholmen, small island. There are many small island throughout Copenhagen!
The townhouses to the left across the street from the canal! Love how colorful this city is! :)
Thorvaldsen Museum is a single-artist museum in dedicated to the art of Danish neoclassic sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived and worked in Rome for most of his life. The building is strongly inspired by antique Greek architecture and built around an inner courtyard where the artist is buried. It is particularly noteworthy for its unique use of colors both inside and outside. Every room in the museum has a unique ceiling decoration in the grotesque style. The outside is adorned with a frieze depicting Thorvaldsen's homecoming from Rome in 1838.
Around the back of the building there was painted wall murals!
Almost to Strøget! More information in tomorrows post!
The spire of Nikolaj Kunsthal, which is today an art institution dedicated to the most recent contemporary art located in the heart of Copenhagen! The first Nikolaj Church was built around year 1200, as one of the oldest church buildings in Copenhagen, It was then destroyed in a fire in 1794. The only original remains is the tower. The original spire was destroyed and was without a spire until 1909.
Kevin and I at the bar in Copenhagen!
Live Music!
Rosie Mcgee's, the bar Kevin and I went to the first night in Copenhagen! Nice bar filled with life music and dancing!
Swedish Words of the Day:
En ("en..n") meaning One
Två ("ta-vor") meaning Two
Tre ("tre..y") meaning Three
Fyra ("feay-ra") meaning Four
Fem ("femm") meaning Five
Danish Words of the Day:
En ("en") meaning One
To ("tcho") meaning Two
Tre ("trey") meaning Three
Fire ("fir") meaning Four
Fem ("fem") meaning Five
I find the Swedish language puts way more emphasis on the words and drags them out were the Danish is quick and short.
PEACE & LOVE,
Kevin & Amanda
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