I Love Copenhagen (But I Hate my *#%*:@#* Suitcase!)

Okay Christine, I admit it, you were right. After one day with my suitcase in Copenhagen I was ready to throw it in a canal. It's too big, it's too heavy, it doesn't fit in lockers AND no one helps you up the stairs (the staff just laugh at you and tell you there was actually a lift AFTER you get to the top). I'm sure everyone who was privy to my crazy suitcase dilemma is having a bit of a chuckle now.

But luckily I only had to cart it around for my last day and all I did was visit an art museum. (I actually had 3 attractions lined up but gave up because the gallery was awesome and because my suitcase was such a cumbersome dead weight I only visited the gallery.) The art gallery in question is the NY Carlsberg Glytotek (yes, it's founded by the same guy who made the beer) and it houses a magnificent collection on ancient sculpture, French/Danish sculpture and French Impressionist art. The glytotek itself is a beautiful piece of architecture adjorned by soaring colonnades, lavishly decorated ceilings and an a lush indoor Mediterranean 'Winter Garden' populated by both modern and classical sculptures. You are stopped by the elegant nlines of the stairwells and the perfectly lined doorways creating the illusion of infinite reflection as much by the emotive statues.

But I think having awesome collections housed in simply elegant buildings is trademarkly Danish (no Chian, I don't mean in the legal sense, I'm not an intellectual property law expert like yourself). I also visited the Statens Museum for Kunst which is also a beautiful building with a stately old wing as well as a modern wing with the most gorgeously pristine lines and floor to ceiling windows offering panoramic garden views.

I suppose sometime soon I will get used to museum buildings being art as much as the art they house but not yet... not yet...

Besides the cool museums and galleries (yes Lilian, I saw more Runestones), Copenhagen has much to love. It has a glorious cafe culture and when the weather is fine the Danes head out in droves to the public squares or gardens or just they just sit by the canal to soak up sun. Mmm... ice cream and hot dogs...

And yes mum, I saw 'The Little Mermaid'. It's pretty, it's bronze, it's small, it's in a totally awesome location. It is on the seaside of this beautiful park and frankly although I wasn't very interested in her (sorry Mr Edvard Erikson) I loved sitting by the seaside with my little bag of sugar coated almonds watching the people and the sea. The best thing about the water in Copenhagen is that it has a life of its own. I think it's because it's so windy here but the water chops and churns in every-which-way and it looks more like a restless animal than a body of liquid.

All in all I can see why Mary Donaldson moved here... (It's not to become royalty, it's just the prettiness of the whole country! Although I'm sure that being royalty has its perks, she's already featured on Danish coins AND the royal treasury has a huge stock of alcohol from the 1600's!)
Currently on the train from Denmark to Germany. Here the train drives onto the ferry for the crossing just like the cars! Which gives you a chance to walk, hang out on the sun deck, have an ice-cream and (if the fancy takes you) pick up a slab of tax-free beer. :p