Copenhagen - City of Rain

Yes folks, in yet another country, still in Scandinavia and its called Denmark, apart from Norway, this is the second most expensive place to be. As you may have guessed from the title, its raining here and cold, only about 15c and it has rained all day today.

We had an easy (but expensive Toll) trip across the Bridge this morning, it was 435 SK (A$73) one way. I did not see Saga and the baby poo brown Porsche on the way, I guess she was busy elsewhere. The thing is, it should be called the Brunnel as only about 2/3rds of the trip is Bridge, the last 4-5 km into Denmark is tunnel under the sea.

The approach

Near the apex

Middle of Bridge

On the way down

The Tunnel

Arriving in Copenhagen about 12.00 midday, we found the hotel without much hassle, we have dumped (Wanda) on the GPS and switched to the  Male voice (Joy calls him Sven, as in Sven are we going to get there?), but he seems to have a better sense of direction than Wanda. We checked in and basically set out again straight away (on foot) to explore the city a bit. It was/is raining and windy, a typical Melbourne winters day. 

Apart from the rain and wind, Sunday turned out to be a good day to visit museums as the 2 we went to were free on a Sunday. First we went to a place called the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, which was mainly sculpture but had a good smattering the French painters and paintings as well. Mostly Impressionists, Monet, Degar, Pissario, Matisse, etc. The Sculptures were Rodin and others, plus a heap of stuff from antiquity, Egypt, Rome, Greece, etc.

Rodin, the Thinker

More Rodin, for Julie

A young Couple

Hermes and his girlfriend

Matisse sculpture

A happy lion

Caligula

Caligula as they believe above was originally

Often these statues are missing noses and other bits, well ever wonder where they are, wonder no more, see next Pic

All those lost noses and ears

Egyptian Mummified cat

Egyptian Rat (maybe this is where Ikea got inspired from)

More cats and rats

Heiroglyphs

Inside the Glyptotek

Copenhagen Canal (not only Amsterdam has them)

Joys Pics of floor mosaics and stuff at NY Carlsberg Glyptotek

After leaving the Glyptotek, we went to the Danish National Museum. Mainly because of a visiting  exhibition of American Navajo Indian weaving, but it had other stuff as well.

New Shorts options (Greenland traditional fashions)

Furry Jocks from Greenland

Shorts again

Sarah Lund's Grandmothers clothes

Greenland made knives

Navajo Indian Tapestries

Yes, Denmark is the Home of Lego and the shop in Copenhagen would be a delight to any Lego fan. They have been around since 1936.

At last, a decent T shirt shop, unfortunately nothing in my size, but here is a sample of their wares. (or is that wears)

Lastly, the view from the Scandic Hotel window.

The stripy building bottom left is the Imax and the Tycho Brahe Planetarium.

It is raining in this photo.

One thing I have been meaning to mention was that the Swedish word for Hi is Hey, but when they greet you they nearly always say "Hey Hey". To which I always want to respond with "Its Saturday" I didn't because the look of puzzlement and subsequent explanation of my remarks would be too much.

More rain expected tomorrow.