{"id":7177,"date":"2012-11-05T04:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2012-11-05T04:25:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T12:25:53","slug":"tourist-in-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2012\/11\/tourist-in-copenhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Ubuntu Developer Summit ending a day sooner than it has in the past, I decided to take the opportunity on Friday to do some touristing in downtown Copenhagen. I didn’t have many plans, but I did want to see The Little Mermaid statue<\/a> and do a little shopping. The night before I sketched out a plan that would take Pasi Lallinaho and I through downtown and up to the mermaid. After breakfast in the hotel we were off.<\/p>\n

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\nPasi and Lyz at Gefion Fountain<\/a> near St. Alban’s Church<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n

A quick Metro ride put us in the city center. From there we walked north and quickly found ourselves in the central courtyard of the palaces of Amalienborg<\/a>. From there we walked along the waterfront in my journey to see The Little Mermaid.<\/p>\n

And I saw her!<\/p>\n

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\nVisiting the little mermaid!<\/small><\/div>\n

Now, she is just a statue and even at 10AM there was a crowd snapping pictures. But I’m a shameless tourist and there is no disappointing me when it comes to visiting a famous landmark.<\/p>\n

Once a sufficient number of photos were taken, we headed back south and started walking around about half of the huge Kastellet<\/a> star fortress.<\/p>\n

To warm up after the morning of walking we stopped for some drinks at a small cafe before heading over to the Design Museum<\/a>. Half the museum tracked the long history of Danish classical design and then had some other exhibits of design from around the world. The last half was a lot of modern design. There were a lot of chairs (and other furniture), Danes really like designing chairs.<\/p>\n

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\nFurniture at the Design Museum<\/small><\/div>\n

We stopped for a lunch of steaks on our way walking back to the city center. I got some of my shopping done and then were able to walk through the castle gardens of Rosenborg Castle<\/a>. The castle itself was closed that day (sad!), but we did end up buying tickets to see the royal treasury and I paid the extra fee to be able to take pictures inside.<\/p>\n

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\nCrown of King Christian IV<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n

From here we did a little more shopping and then went to another cafe where I enjoyed a delicious hot chocolate before heading back to the Metro so Pasi could get to the airport for his flight. I grabbed some dinner in the very expensive hotel restaurant and turned in early so I could be up at 3AM to make my 6AM flight.<\/p>\n

I’ve uploaded photos from the Ubuntu Developer Summit as well as my tourist day here: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pleia2\/sets\/72157631927163838\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I wish I could have spent another day in the city, my guidebook was brimming with suggestions of things I wanted to see, including doing at least one of the palace tours, a river ferry ride, their lovely zoo with the huge elephant exhibit and a brewery tour at Carlsberg. Some day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Ubuntu Developer Summit ending a day sooner than it has in the past, I decided to take the opportunity on Friday to do some touristing in downtown Copenhagen. I didn’t have many plans, but I did want to see The Little Mermaid statue and do a little shopping. The night before I sketched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7183,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}