A full day in Copenhgen

Not much difference in style when it's a full day in CPH as opposed to half a day - same stuff twice as much.

First thing - the hopon hopoff bus; this SOP for any new City. The problem is choosing the company. Most places have at least two and each is different in routes and pricing. We settled for the bus that has three routes and the cheapest price. A 24hr pass, with a boat ride, has two extra days, so you really get three days and the kicker is that one of the routes goes to the airport. Money saved again!

So where did we go and what did we see. Twenty-three stops took us all over downtown and included a boat ride. The bus ride was ninety minutes and hit all the spots that one would go back to - the Castle, the National Museum and if you really wanted to brave the crowds hit up the "Little Mermaid".

"Little Mermaid" a rear view

This icon of CPH is on the list of every tour in the Country, consequently the traffic and crowds are horrendous. We passed on seeing it from the bus but the boat ride took us to the spot. The pic on the left is a rear view and the one on the right shows the crowds jostling to get on the rock in front of the statue to pose. Perhaps tomorrow we will try to get a pic with the icon if we feel like braving the crowds.

After the bus trip we walked to the boat through the Town Hall Square, entering the Town Hall for a looky-loo, and along a kilometre of a shopping street called 'Strogat", the Danes have a funny habit of naming the streets in pieces, it is not uncommon for a long street to have many name - makes mapreading tricky.

The same route was followed on the way back and again a 'coffee-stop' was needed ($21cdn) to buy two muffins and two coffees. If you want to get acclimatised to European prices do all of you coffee breaks at Starbucks!