HANS Christian Andersen once pronounced “to ride is to live”, so when a event arose to revisit a Danish writer’s home city of Copenhagen, my mother and we jumped during a chance.
And it’s a bronze sculpture of one of Andersen’s famous characters, a Little Mermaid, that proves a large pull to tourists, quite this year on a 100th anniversary of her unveiling.
It’s not been well-spoken sailing for a mermaid, though. In 1984 dual organisation cut her right arm off – and she was even decapitated in 1964!
Fortunately, we were means to conclude her in her full glory.
We had flown out to Copenhagen from Liverpool for a prolonged weekend and Norwegian Air’s flights are ideal for a brief mangle in a city.
We stayed in a higher double room during a ultra-modern Copenhagen Island Hotel with smashing gulf views. Arriving during a hotel after 6pm we motionless to eat there, too, and a on-site Harbour grill didn’t defect with a tantalizing general cuisine.
The subsequent day we motionless to ride into a city centre. You could also get a sight from circuitously Dybbølsbro to Central Station if we wish to save your legs.
There’s so many to see in Copenhagen, and one approach to make certain we get a many out of a revisit is with a Copenhagen Card, that offers giveaway entrance to 75 museums and other attractions, as good as giveaway ride on open ride in a city, and discounts during restaurants.
One place to conduct for is Tivoli with a rollercoasters, restaurants and song to perform all a family. With a Copenhagen Card we get giveaway entrance though rides contingency be paid for separately.
Over a highway is Copenhagen’s city hall, outward of that sits a statue of one of a city’s many famous sons, a wise preview of a subsequent captivate on a list – a H.C. Andersen Experience.
This includes a fascinating discernment into a life of a writer, as good as animatronic displays of his famous fairytales.
There are copiousness of places to squeeze a punch to eat and we motionless to stop during a travel café on circuitously Nytorv. We took a event to try smørrebrod – normal Danish open sandwiches, ideal with a cold potion of pilsner.
The food stage in Copenhagen is a vital attraction. We enjoyed superb dusk meals, a best of that was during Host. The newest of a organisation of 9 restaurants run by Copenhagen Food Company offering excellent dining for a reasonable price.
We opted for a ‘an dusk with Host’ menu, that enclosed an aperitif, 3 courses with matched wines and coffee.
Paté Paté, located in a former beef make-up district, was a other grill of choice where a accessible use and buzzing atmosphere complemented a complicated European menu.
Another prominence was a outing to a ancestral Carlsberg brewery. It’s giveaway to enter with a Copenhagen Card and we get dual giveaway drinks during any of a site’s 3 bars. Worth a try is a Carlsberg Dark Lager, done to JC Jacobsen’s strange recipe.
The brewery also has stables where we can accommodate a Jutland horses whose ancestors used to ride drink around a city.
Back in a city centre, we contingency revisit Christiansborg Palace with a pretentious stately accepting bedrooms featuring a overwhelming Queen’s tapestries. Again giveaway to enter with a Copenhagen Card, a guided debate in English is included.
Not distant from Christiansborg is a lifelike Nyhavn, a canalside widen of bars, cafés and restaurants that is a really sharp-witted spot. A ideal place to lay out with a beer, booze or coffee to simulate on a smashing time we’d had in this extraordinary city.
TRAVEL FILE:
PETER MILBY trafficked as a guest of VisitDenmark ( www.visitdenmark.com
) drifting approach from Liverpool to Copenhagen with Norwegian Airlines ( norwegian.com/uk
)
He stayed during a Copenhagen Island Hotel, partial of a Arp-Hansen Hotel Group, consisting of 11 centrally-located hotels in Copenhagen, who are approved by Green Key for their environmental credentials.
A one night stay during Copenhagen Island Hotel costs from £50.40 per chairman in a common double room and from £92.82 per singular room. Visit www.copenhagenisland.com
For sum of a Copenhagen Card, that costs from 42 euros for an adult per day, revisit www.copenhagencard.com
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