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| Beach volleyball near Malmo |
We caught the 9:42 train for a 4-hour trip from Gothenburg to Copenhagen this morning. Although the pastoral scenery was pleasant, I opted to drop my camera and spend most of the ride catching up some past blog entries. I did manage to catch one photo of a beach volleyball tournament going on under gray and rainy skies somewhere north of Malmo. I did miss one other shot I wished I had caught of an enormous trailer (caravan) park overlooking a long sandy beach somewhere in the vicinity of Angelholm. It made me think of a North Sea answer to Florida's oceanside trailer parks.
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| Square at Gammeltorv |
Per the forecast for today we arrived at Copenhagen in the rain. After the usual walking around in circles to get oriented, we hoofed it to the hotel in the rain. Unfortunately, the hike of about a half kilometer felt a lot more miserable in the rain, and we must have looked like a couple of wet rats as we rolled in the door of the Tivoli Hotel (which IS NOT actually in the Tivoli Gardens, though they are just across the street from the train station). About the time we finished showers and got cleaned up, on cue the weather broke and we enjoyed a sunny late afternoon walk through the streets of the old city center.
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| Church of the Holy Ghost |
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| Past the Stork Fountain to Helligsaandskirken |
A second wave of showers forced us for a time into a covered alley near the Observatory, but the cold front came through pretty quickly and drove the rest of the rain and clouds away. The forecast has it that we should enjoy nice skies and a fair amount of sun over the weekend.
On a long, circuitous route back to the hotel during which we wandered from one restaurant offering hamburger specials to another offering various wrapped sandwiches we finally opted for an Indian buffet restaurant called the Koh-i-noor. Very friendly people and attentive service from a young Chinese woman who was still working to master English, but the food was pretty unremarkable. I guess the place has been around long enough for Danish palates to have stripped all the spice out of the chef's repertoire. Certianly we'll be looking hard at the guidebooks to find more interesting dining tomorrow.
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| The Stork Fountain |
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| Helligaandskirken |
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| View NW toward the Observatory |
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| The Observatory (Rundetaarn) |
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| Streetscape near the university |
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| Church of Our Lady |
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| University of Copenhagen |
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| Jorck's Passage |
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| City model outdoors at the City Museum |
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| Sunset behind Dybbolsgade |
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