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"A little girl from Singapore, A big boy from Sweden, together they meet, and together they fall in love with each other "

Tracy Chapman - Change

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Copenhagen, Denmark holis

During our 2 weeks stay in Sweden, Tom and myself popped over to Copenhagen, Denmark for some sightseeing as well. Thank god for special crew rate at our company's contracted hotel. The regular hotel rate for a single room per night is like S$300+++ !!

One of the peaks of being a flight Attendant!

Can't remember if this photo was taken whilst on the way to Copenhagen or the way back?
The famous square (i think!) in Copenhagen!
Copenhagen City Hall Square is the largest square in Copenhagen. It can holds 50.000 people or more! On one hand side of the square, you'll find the Tivoli and on the other side, the famous pedestrian street Strøget begins. We saw street performers promoting their own CDs~
(ermm, are they like Red Indians?)
In the summer heat, nothing beats having a humongous soft ice to cool you down!
The shopping street, Strøget (literally "the straight") is a carfree zone. This popular tourist attraction in the centre of town is the longest pedestrian shopping area in Europe
We walked further downwards and reach the Nyhavn (lit. "New Harbor"). It is a popular area for both locals and tourists. Starting from an old anchor at Kongens Nytorv, the street is lined with many small bars and restaurants facing out to a picturesque harbor. It is not uncommon to see groups of young people sitting along the waterfront with beer, enjoying the sunshine, the crowds and the street entertainment.
It is also the starting point for various canal tour excursions. Time for another soft ice!!We were looking around for the famous "The Little Mermaid" statue which we assume was located somewhere near here. I remembered my colleagues mentioning to moi that it's near to the habour. After walking around in circles, we finally asked a local only to find out from him that the statue is not near to the habour! In fact, it's like a 40mins walk to the statue!!!!!

-_-"

Thank god moi was wearing my comfy birkens!!
Well, i must admit it's a pretty nice walk in the end.

We walked past the
Amalienborg Palace
Amalienborg is the residence of Queen Margrethe, her husband prince Henrik and her son the crown prince Frederik. Actually the royal palace is not one, but four different palaces flanking a square.
and past by a viking ship! 40mins later, moi spotted the statue!!
*make a mad dash towards it*

The Little Mermaid:
The Carlsberg brewer Carl Jacobsen was inspired to donate money to a sculpture after having seen "The little Mermaid" based on a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen. The sculptor Edward Eriksen, sculptured her in bronze and his wife Eline Eriksen modelled. The story says that she is a sea king's half-human and half-fish daughter, who must wait on her rock for 300 years before she can enter the world of humans. She's been sitting here since 1913 so she still has a few more years to go.

This poor statue was vandalised several times, with the statue's head being sawn off a couple of times. Most recently, On May 20, 2007, it was found draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf . It's relatively small size, only 1.25 meter high and weighs about 175 kg.

Poor Tom didnt get a picture of himself with the mermaid.....becos.... becos....ermmm....ermmm..Alrite, i was in a foul mood and we had an argument and blah blah blah....

Dinner was at Hard Rock Cafe, Copenhagen.
You're not gonna believe it, but it's the first time moi have eaten in a Hard Rock cafe!

The food and the service was totally awesome!!
I Heart HARD ROCK CAFE now!!

The next morning, we head down to another NOT TO BE MISS touristy attraction, The Tivoli.
Tivoli Gardens is a famous amusement park and pleasure garden. The park opened on August 15, 1843 and, except for Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg, it is the oldest amusement park which has survived intact to the present day.
lunch was the famous Danish red hotdogs, Pølser
We took this ride and felt dizzy and nausea afterwards. Bleah~
I remembered taking this similar ride in Dreamland, Brisbane. The one that bring you slowly up to the top of the tower. Then it will linger for a couple of seconds, making your mind go crazy and without any warning or so forth, just drop you down in a matter of seconds

I HATE THAT!!
If you are too tired to walk around, you could hop into this cutey ride that'll bring you around the whole Tivoli. BTW, Tivoli is a really huge place!!. Tom and moi's shadows!!
Check out our bunnies ears~ HEHE

Time to head back to Malmo, Sweden. At the train station, waiting for the train.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

dats too much of soft icecream liao lah...haha~~
clarissa

Anonymous said...

Hello,

I love your blog. So far what I gathered from the blog is that you live in Singapore. You are Korean and married to Tom. Seems like you like to travell a lot. May be work for a Airline ? I like to travel too. I would be interested to hear your experiance from different country. Thanks for sharing.