Trip: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Place: Copenhagen, Denmark
Traveling With: Doug T from Hartford, WI
Photos: Town Hall Square, Havn District, Little Mermaid, Town Hall Square
We are in our third day of a 3-week vacation to Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Our flight left JFK late, so we missed our connection in Amsterdam to Copenhagen. The actress Angie Dickinson (starred as "Pepper" in 70s series "Police Woman") was also on our flight. Doug kept yelling "hey Pepper" at her. She wasn't quite the blond bombshell she was in the 70s. But, hey, we all get old.
Although we eventually got on another flight to Copenhagen, we arrived without luggage. So I ended up buying some new clothes and living in my jogging suit for three days. Also had to buy a new toothbrush. I was so relieved when we got back to the hotel on day 3 and the concierge told us "something had arrived for us." That "something" was our luggage.
During our three days in Copenhagen Doug and I covered the entire city on foot, which wasn't hard to do, and probably the best way. We pretty much just admired all the old buildings, went to a few museums, had a few beers, and hung out at Tivoli for a few hours. I especially liked the Havn area, which is like a canal with lots of boats and multi-colored buildings. And of course, no visit to Copenhagen would be complete without a picture of the "Little Mermaid" statue in the harbor.
On the night before we left, Denmark was playing Brazil in the semi-finals of World Cup Soccer. The city decked out Town Hall Square with big TV screens and threw a party for 500,000 people, all of whom were decked out in flags and national colors. The nice lady I'm with in the 4th picture was the girlfriend of an American guy we met while roaming around the Square. On the side of my face is a Danish flag in oil paint that some girl (don't know who) transferred to my face from hers by pressing her cheek against mine. Denmark lost the soccer match. The next morning, Town Hall Square looked like it had been hit by a tornado and there were still bonfires burning all over the place.
Two weeks later we were at the Hard Rock Cafe in Stockholm watching Brazil play France in the finals. Brazil lost but that didn't stop them from partying. Right across the street from our hotel in Stockholm was a bar called Brasilia, and they closed off the street and beat on drums and played loud music all night long, so didn't sleep well that night. But who cares, we were "on holiday."
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