I Don’t Like Mondays.

Monday 23^rd Septmember.  

Today was the day we thought we’d tour through the Christianborg Palace. I went to great lengths to ensure it would be open, being a Monday, many places all over the world are closed. So, we found our way there, and guess what?? Closed!! Just for a short while, maybe you come back in an hour?? Yeah, right! We wandered around and found our way in to the Old Library Garden and it’s really lovely.

Bibliotek Have - the Library Garden

Maybe we should try the National Museum and look at the Viking exhibition? Find our way there, and being Monday, it’s closed!! The biggest container ship in the world is in port at the moment, the ‘Majestic Maersk’, so we figured out what bus to catch, because we are determined to catch a bus, and strike up a conversation with a man on board about whether or not we are on the correct bus. Seems we are. I’m so pleased they all speak such good English here!! When that man gets off, the man in front of us turns and says he is going to see the ship too, so we buddy up and walk from the bus stop around to Langelinie to the dock. It’s a massive ship and a lot of people have turned out to have a gawk. But the crowd is quite tolerable.

Linda messages us and lines us up to meet her and Ken, 5.30 at the SkyBar at the Bella Centre out in the boon docks. A sort of ‘if you build it, they will come’ sort of place. End of the Metro line (nearly) and on the plains where the wind howls across in the winter. We’ve got plenty of time so decide to walk around the Kastellet, an old fortification near the dock, but it takes longer than we realise to get back to the station and we arrive to meet up just in time.

the obligatory Little mermaid shot.

The SkyBar is on the 23^rd floor, which isn’t far up by Aussie standards, but when you’re in a 5 floor limited area, it’s pretty high. The view is 360 degrees and it’s a clear day, so we can see back to the city and can even see the ship at the dock.

The drinks aren’t as expensive as we expected and they didn’t mind me being a tourist, taking photos from all vantage points. Ken has the car there, so we drive home in style.