I spent a
couple of delightful days exploring Copenhagen, staying with Mike Kallaway and
his daughter Alice, friends from Bosham …
… while Charles went on another business trip to Italy.
I walked all round Kastellet, a star-shaped fortification surrounded by a moat, which is still used as a military base today. This is looking at one of the points of the star as I walked round …
These are
the barracks inside with their original cobbled streets and typical Danish red
buildings …
This is St Alban’s Church by the moat in Kastellet ...
... and here is the famous Little Mermaid on the sea front nearby.
Typical
buildings in Copenhagen …
… and
fancy, patterned brickwork …
The royal
palace, Amalienborg, with the famous Marble Church in the background …
… and the
Changing of the Guard.
The new
Opera House …
… and then
lunch overlooking Nyhavn …
…
followed by a wander through Strøget, supposedly the world’s longest continuous
pedestrianized shopping street … I did actually get tempted to buy some summery clothes, but of course it's turned grey and blustery since then!
Down to the
Rådhus, or Town Hall …
… past
the Tivoli Gardens – I’ll have to leave that for my next visit – to the Round
Tower and Trinity Church, which had an impressive interior …
… and to
the fairytale castle of Rosenslot, which contains the Danish Crown Jewels – not
as impressive as ours, perhaps, but you can get a lot closer.
The next morning I went to the Hirschsprung 19th Century Danish Art Collection,
which was very interesting and I recognised quite a few of the paintings, even
if I didn’t know many of the artists’ names.
This is by P. S. Krøyer …
… and this
is 'Spring' by Harald Slott-Møller, for which he also designed the frame with
small blue flowers to match those on the girl’s skirt …
Then it
was back on the train to Sønderborg, which looked very pretty in a lovely soft
evening light …
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