Copenhagen

The next day, we catch a train to the airport cos it is faster and cheaper! Only will take us 15 mins to reach the airport! Cool! We had a quick breakkie at the airport while waiting for our flight. The flight will only take about an hour or so. Quick one on SAS!

The flight was smooth and we reached Copenhagen in a flash! It was barely 12noon when we reached our hotel - Alexandra Hotel at Anderson Boulevard. I didn't know anything about this hotel at all. K booked it, so it must mean something to him.

And yes! This hotel has an interesting concept (Click here). They had some cool retro-fitted rooms, displaying furnitures from renowned Danish designers like Verner Panton, Arne Jacobson, etc. These designers all had their furnitures pieces displayed at the Danish Museum (which we were going to visit the next day).

There were so many places to visit here and we have only 3 days 2 nights. After settling down at the hotel, we went to get a map from the tourist info counter and decided to do the hop-on-hop-off bus tour again tomorrow (like what we did in London). And now since we only have half-day left, we decided to go check out the walking street (Click here) which was just near our hotel to do some shopping and grab some food, if any.

The street was amazing! There were so many shops around here. We stopped by The Royal cafe as K heard about the famous Smushi (Click here). And OMG, the food here looked really good! Very feminine place though. Of course we had to order the smushi. So we ordered 3. They looked really good!

And the bills... They looked really GOOD too! It was sooooo expensive! 2 cups of latte with 3 small bite-sized snacks, costed us 450DK, which was about 60 euros! WTF! LOL! We had a shock! Hahaha!! Oh well, this is an expensive experience! :)

Thereafter, we dropped by Nyhavn (Click here), a bustling area filled with cool restaurants and cafes along the river, just like our Boat quay and Clarke Quay. This place was highly recommended by the taxi driver by the way. He mentioned this place more than 5 times I think. I nearly thought that he might have a restaurant there or something. LOL!

We catch a quick Carlsberg beer at a cool cafe along the river and enjoyed a busker performance.

It was getting dark by then and the weather was so cold and harsh, very different from the nice cool Amsterdam! So we decided to go back to the hotel and eat at the vietnamese restaurant downstairs. OMG, the restaurant was so fully packed! Must be good, yah? So we decided to try. The food was alright but the bill was once again, very high! For just 2 bowls of main (simple noodle soup and curry soup) and 1 plate of 3 springrolls, it costed us nearly 350DK, which was about 46 euros! WOW!!! Copenhagen is surely very expensive!!!

Well, we had a good time and we only have about 1 full day left anyway. And this hotel was freaking cool! We asked the receptionist about those designer-furniture-fitted rooms and she actually told us that we could go in to take a look! WTH! We were so excited! It was like hitting the lottery! And you should see the look on K's face. He was like a kid all over! It was his dream came true!

The receptionist gave us 2 keys to 2 different rooms and we happily hopped onto the floors. These rooms were all fitted with the designer's famous furniture and OMG! How I loved them! LOVE LOVE LOVE the rooms!

We had a good tour of the rooms, taking endless amount of photos (pano, still, posing, etc). It was definitely a good place!

The next morning, we took the hop-on-hop-off bus with the main objective of getting to Christania. We stopped by the Little Mermaid stop so that K could spin some story to write to his 2 cute daughters. I really wondered what's so special about the Little Mermaid and apparently this was a donation by the famous Carlsberg founder, JC Jacobsen who love the ballet about Little Mermaid so much that he paid money to get the famous sculpture Edward Eriksen to create a sculpture of the mermaid at this location.

In case anyone who didn't even know about the tale of Little Mermaid, please check it out here.

After that, we continued the bus ride to the next stop, near the Danish Design Museum. We got off the bus and proceed to this museum. Apparently not many people knew about this museum. I guess not all Copenhagen people love designs! LOL... Anyway we waited till 11am for the museum to open and we were very delighted by the displays. It was not exactly a huge museum like the Van Gogh, but it was just nice. Short and sweet. The items were displayed tastefully. We even had a beer inside the cafe while waiting for our next bus.

We got up the bus and proceed to the next stop: Christiania (Click here). K had always wanted to visit this place as he had seen a documentary about this place, and how cool this place was. We finally found it and it was indeed a cool place. Not as scary as I thought it to be. Actually it was kind of too commercial. Many tourists visited the place and there are many booths selling souvenirs and stuffs. Thus, this place is not as deserted or abandoned as I thought it to be. K bought a nice beanie for 200DK (about 27 euros) and it was expensive!

We finished a beer there and since we have done most of our "to-do" list, we decided to catch the bus again to the walking street to do some shopping. We walked around and decided to have some late lunch. And it started to pour! After lunch, K managed to buy a pair of nice boots before walking back to the hotel to take a rest before heading out to Vesterbro - the red-light-cum-hipster district in the evening (click here). We heard there might have some cool shops selling unique artistic stuffs. Unfortunately it was drizzling that evening and the streets were quiet and shops were mostly closed before 7pm.

We stopped by a local bar and ordered some drinks. I had enough beers for the day and thus, I ordered Coke. We asked the bartender about this area as well as another area called the Meat-packing district (Click here). He told us that the meat packing district used to be an area that sell meat, but since then, it had transformed into a cool area that had many restaurants and bars, I think similar to Nyhavn. We took a walk near the area and saw a bit of happenings, but as it was drizzling and cold, we decided not to walk further as we might not find anything unique. It would probably be like Nyhavn anyway. So we went back to the hotel to pack and rest for the night, getting ready for Berlin tomorrow.

Along the way, we passed by Tivoli amusement park (Click here) and were surprised that it was opened! Actually tonight was just a preview Halloween night for VIPs and the official opening date was Friday. Oh well, since we were already there, might as well go in to take a look. It costed us 150DK (about 20 euros) just to get in! Wow, so expensive. Anyway, it was our last night, so let's just do it! It was getting so cold now that I was shivering non-stop. Perhaps I had been to better theme parks like Universal Studios and DisneyLand, so I really did not think this park was any better. But this park seemed to be the icon of Copenhagen and this was the 2nd oldest park ever. Even there was talks that Disneyland was modelled after Tivoli. As usual K was like a kid and decided to try the scariest ride (the ride with the most screams I reckon). I had to wait for him while he queued to take the ride and stupidly, I sat under the cold weather. I was feeling so cold that suddenly I felt silly. Duh! From the look of the queue, he should need to queue quite long. So I should at least take a walk and see the whole park. I did just that and the park was typically boring for me. So I decided to pop into the waffle shop to get a cup of hot latte and perhaps some food to eat (yes, I didn't have dinner again). At the same time I was worried that K might miss me and didn't know where I was, so I was ordering my food and looking out/walking out to look for K at the same time. Very tiring. Finally just as I was taking my waffles, K walked in and I was relieved! So we sat down and while I was having my waffle, he bought an ice-cream to try. And something funny happened! He cut his lips! I think it must be due to dry lips! He just came down from the ride which was so super cold and when he bit the ice-cream cone, the hard biscuit cone might have cut his lips subconsciously! And he thought it was strawberry! LOL!!! Horrible!!!

Anyway, we did have a fun night! The next morning, we have about till 1pm before rushing to the airport. So we decided to go shopping once more. I was really thinking of buying a nicer boots for walking so that I will look presentable in Berlin. Right now the weather was getting colder and harsher and I had to wear socks. As my walking shoes was not meant for socks, it looked kind of ugly! I hate to be a fashion disaster (you know how I like to look pretty!), so I must really get a good pair of walking boots (and good-looking ones too!). Lucky me, K helped me spot a nice walking boots with a small wedge heels. Perfect for petite me! And although it costed alot (about 80 euros), I think it is worth it!

We rushed back to the hotel to grab our bags and called a taxi to the airport. We decided to reach airport earlier cos K wanted to claim his tax refund first. But unfortunately, we had checked in everything and the lady requested to look at his buys. So too bad, he can't do it unless he had his bought items. Oh well, guess he had to do it in Berlin then.

Bye Copenhagen. Although it was a short 2.5 days stay, I had enjoyed Copenhagen much. :)

Next up: Happening Berlin!