So what did we do yesterday? Walked a lot, visited the Christianborg Palace, the Round Tower and strolled the shopping areas - that was the good. The bad was waiting for a while at a nonexistent bus stop. The'Red Bus' company failed to tell us that stop #21 had been re-routed. Walked to #8 and sat on the bus to come back to #1 and the short walk to the hotel.
Places visited:
Christianborg Palace (wikilink) was a cool place in temperature and temperament, the King doesn't live here any more but uses the place for formal banquets and meetings. The Prime Minister's office is in the old Royal Apartments. The Royals live in the Amelianborg Palace. This complex has a few parts, some we could not get into - the Stables and the Chapel. We did visit the Palace rooms, the Kitchen and the Ruins. The ruins were impressive just for the engineering needed to display them. The Palace has been destroyed, burnt out and rebuilt at least six times since the first one built by King Absalon in the 1100s.
The Round Tower (wikilink) was once an observatory built in 1637. The distinguishing feature is the path to the top. No stairs just a ramp, to accommodate horses that would haul heavy astronomical equipment to the top and books to the Library, located halfway up.
Wednesday was a travel day, as noted before one of the hopon hopoff bus routes actually went out to the airport, after a stop at the aquarium. So that saved a trip to the train station and other waiting arounds. The Copenhagen airport, like all of the European airports have the screening and security divided into Schengen Treaty country lines and others. That means once you have cleared security you can travel most countries in Europe without passport controls. So only the scanning procedure to undergo. CPH is a big long box - people on top and ramps underneath and to occupy the minds of the traveller's and get us to spend big bucks in the stores that line the building.
One hour flight and we are landing in Berlin: there was a 300 metre walk from the Terminal building to the train station. We had bought our tickets inside the Terminal and all we had to do was to find the right platform and stamp our tickets. This done we settled down to a one our train ride through the City of Berlin. A wonderful and relaxing way to get to the hotel. We did get turned around in the second Ubahn station but didn't lose much time. Met up with our friend Fred, who is going to be in the same hotel for the same time we are here and went for dinner. Not many happy German faces here tonight - the Germans had just been eliminated from the World Cup.
Note, it should be noted that a day ago the normal lens on my camera failed (there is a factory recall on it) so the piccies may be not be as comprehensive as much as i would like them to be. I have to use my telefoto lens and that creates problems for normal shots.
Places visited:
Christianborg Palace (wikilink) was a cool place in temperature and temperament, the King doesn't live here any more but uses the place for formal banquets and meetings. The Prime Minister's office is in the old Royal Apartments. The Royals live in the Amelianborg Palace. This complex has a few parts, some we could not get into - the Stables and the Chapel. We did visit the Palace rooms, the Kitchen and the Ruins. The ruins were impressive just for the engineering needed to display them. The Palace has been destroyed, burnt out and rebuilt at least six times since the first one built by King Absalon in the 1100s.
The Round Tower (wikilink) was once an observatory built in 1637. The distinguishing feature is the path to the top. No stairs just a ramp, to accommodate horses that would haul heavy astronomical equipment to the top and books to the Library, located halfway up.Wednesday was a travel day, as noted before one of the hopon hopoff bus routes actually went out to the airport, after a stop at the aquarium. So that saved a trip to the train station and other waiting arounds. The Copenhagen airport, like all of the European airports have the screening and security divided into Schengen Treaty country lines and others. That means once you have cleared security you can travel most countries in Europe without passport controls. So only the scanning procedure to undergo. CPH is a big long box - people on top and ramps underneath and to occupy the minds of the traveller's and get us to spend big bucks in the stores that line the building.
One hour flight and we are landing in Berlin: there was a 300 metre walk from the Terminal building to the train station. We had bought our tickets inside the Terminal and all we had to do was to find the right platform and stamp our tickets. This done we settled down to a one our train ride through the City of Berlin. A wonderful and relaxing way to get to the hotel. We did get turned around in the second Ubahn station but didn't lose much time. Met up with our friend Fred, who is going to be in the same hotel for the same time we are here and went for dinner. Not many happy German faces here tonight - the Germans had just been eliminated from the World Cup.
Note, it should be noted that a day ago the normal lens on my camera failed (there is a factory recall on it) so the piccies may be not be as comprehensive as much as i would like them to be. I have to use my telefoto lens and that creates problems for normal shots.
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