copenhagen.doc

Copenhagen, Day 1 Off to Viking land 10:57am Copenhagen was not a destination I had really considered before but Graham has an internet pal there and he had suggested we come over and visit sometime. We thought, why not? The more I researched, the more things I found about Copenhagen that appealed to me. We knew it would be expensive and it was but we budgeted for it. We stayed at Hotel Ibsens and got a pretty good price, 930 DKK a night which works out to be about $186 CAD though breakfast wasn’t included. I thought that was reasonable considering the prices I’d been finding and it was actually a bit less than we paid for the Ibis in Brussels. We were up by 6:30 and got to Manchester airport in plenty of time for a cuppa. The flight was fine but we felt squashed as all three seats were occupied. Kastrup airport seems very nice, too. Very modern and open and it wasn’t difficult to find our way through. A far better cry than the bottleneck that was Schipol in Amsterdam. Graham’s friend, Dave, was waiting for us with a sign that said GRANDAD. Fun-nee guy ;))) Even so, he didn’t actually realize that Graham is about 10 years older than him! We took the metro to Norreport station which is only a couple of blocks from the hotel. It’s a good location as Norreport is a major train and metro station with lots of busses as well. Right across from that is the old section of Copenhagen where the shopping district is and it’s not far from the Town Hall either. In fact, most things you want to see in Copenhagen are not all that far from each other and it’s a very flat city. There are a lot of cobbles on some of the narrow old streets and sidewalks but they also have flat paving stone paths you can walk on instead of the cobbles. That helps a bit. The hotel room is small but not tiny though the bathroom is. And the bathroom pretty much *is* the shower stall with a drain in the middle of the room and a curtain to pull around so the rest of the room doesn’t get wet. It worked ok th