aggienaut | Farewell to Copenhagen

Monday, September 29th
   After being in Copenhagen for over a week now, this was only the my second totally free day with Cristina. I wanted to see one of the various castles around. I'd have liked to go to the famous Helsingor Castle (site of Hamlet), but its like an hour out of the city. There's a few others around but asking around someone had said Rosenborg Castle (or in Danish Rosenborg Slot) was the go-to castle in Copenhagen. I like castles for their impressive stone architecture and history but I wasn't sure that would do it for Cristina -- but I've been in several previous castles that were so elegantly decorated that I was sure she'd like it if it was like that... but was it? Only one way to find out!

   As it turns out it was elegantly decorated as it had historically been and Cristina really loved it! My main phone by now had no more storage capacity and my magazine phone which I was borrowing for its storage capacity and good camera (I have to return it soon but not yet!) had run out of battery and was refusing to recharge so I was unable to take any photos with my devices anymore and we have not yet succeeded in transferring anything from Cristina's phone to me. But it was very lovely.

   From there was proceeded to the Little Mermaid Statue. I got a picture I really want to post of Cristina by the mermaid with a swan in the water just behind them and in the further background the German frigate Hamburg.

   We walked from there to Nyhavn the famously quaint canal filled with small sailboats and lined with little eateries. While walking along there a man appeared to be waving at me, looking behind me and seeing no one he was waving at I approached him and said "you appear to be waving at me but I don't recognize you" but quickly was successfully reminded that he'd been on the bus trip the day before. But I think he was a Finn and I thought they'd continued their journey so how he and his wife ended up here is a mystery. But then as bees were mentioned in the conversation someone at the next table said "excuse me were you at Apimondia??" and it turned out to be a Greek beekeeping equipment manufacturer.

   Despite tehre being a lot of eateries along nyhavn, many weren't Danish cuisine (who goes to Copenhagen to eat at the Italian place in picturesque nyhavn??), and having walked along once and eyed them all I wasn't sure where to go but looked at google maps to see which one had the highest star ratings (and danish food) and went there and as usual was definitely not disappointed! :d

(as mentioned, my cameras weren't working so here's a picture Cristina took of me)

   Then we returned to our airbnb. Relaxed for a bit and then at 21:00 went out to meet with my friend Ole whom I'd met at breakfast a week earlier. His wife was out of town but he brought along his wife's Colombian friend. We met in a wine bar down the street. It was quite enjoyable, Cristina and the Colombiana chattered away in Espanol while Ole talked about various things, occasionally the two conversations coming together again.

Tuesday, September 30th
   For the return journey we hadn't been so successful and matching our flights exactly, so Cristina flew around just after 14:00 and my flight was at 20:00. I took her to the airport around 11:00 and then returned to the airbnb. The host very kindly said he didn't mind if I hung around all day even though check out was 12:00. I must be getting old because I was feeling a bit sore all over from the recent perambulations, otherwise I might have tried to do more sightseeing for this last day. Instead I sat in the garden in the courtyard in the middle of the building and read all afternoon.
   This time I flew from Copenhagen to Vienna, after a short layover there I continued on to Bangkok, also on Austrian Airlines. From Bangkok I continued on Thai Airways and it was noticably more comfortable. I had a lot of legroom, I'm wondering if even though I didn't pay for extra legroom maybe no one else did so the random draw had put me into an extra legroom seat?

   At some point while I was on this flight Cristina landed around 23:00 Melbourne time Wednesday, cold rain was cmoing down at a steep diagonal angle. Welcome to Melbourne!

Thursday, October 1st
   I landed in the morning and took the airport shuttle bus home, Cristina picked me up from the train station after the bus left me, the end!

One last picture I was able to coax out of my camera, Copenhagen skyline as seen from the Round Tower