Cruising in Copenhagen

We arrived in Copenhagen on Wednesday, slightly burned-out from an early start in Reyjavik and a series of line-ups at the airport before finally boarding our flight.  We then faced the additional stress of one of our bags not appearing (no, it was not the one with Thomas the train and his tracks.  Fortunately, our luck turned for the better when coming back from a bank machine I happened upon our bag on the wrong carousel.

We are staying in a nice one bedroom apartment in the Vesterbro neighbourhood, which is only about a 15 minute walk to the central railway station.  This area strikes me as being Copenhagen's version of Kits, as everyone seems to be young, fit and good-looking.  Now I feel like a foreigner for multiple reasons.

Yesterday was a fun day.  In the morning Alex and I visited the zoo.  He was especially excited to see so many animals that the he had only seen before in books.  He yelled excitedly when recognizing many of the animals and his favourites were probably the elephants, the camels and the cows.  He quite enjoyed the father and son outing as he knew that I would more than likely buck-up for ice cream.

In the evening we visited Copenhagen's famed Tivoli amusement park.  Established in 1843 it's sort of like Vancouver's PNE, except without the farm animals, and people are generally much better dressed, and its situated in a lovely park setting with beautiful night lighting, and there are more high-end restaurants than rides...okay, it's not all that much like the PNE.  It was a place for all ages as the children came for the rides, the young adults came for romance or to drink, and the elderly came to remember when they were young.

Today we finally ventured into the central and main touristy part of town.  We took a one-hour boat tour, which gave us a nice look around and then walked along a major pedestrian shopping area. Alex's favourite vantage point for site-seeing is achieved by my carrying him, so we didn't take too many detours.  We returned home early in the evening walking by several happening bars in our neighbourhood packed with young, good looking people and I'm sure we all thought to ourselves how much life has changed.