Europe 2018 – Page 2 – Robert Huntley's travel blog

18th July 201820th July 2018

Copenhagen – Day 3 – On yer bike

After an overnight storm and a fair bit of rain, today started as a much cooler and fresher day. We hired bikes from our hotel and cycled towards one of the architecture highlights in the Norrebro area. Our cycle continued towards the Circle Bridge, one of Copenhagen’s many bike bridges, and onward to the Opera House. With lunchtime coming up we went to the Copenhagen Street Food centre (https://reffen.dk/en/) and then headed on to the Danish Architecture Centre. (https://dac.dk/en/).

With plenty of time on our hands and two bikes we continued our cycling adventures to the coast where we could look across to the Oresund Bridge (https://www.oresundsbron.com/sv/start). The sea, swimming and the outdoor life seems to be a core aspect of life here in Denmark. With a 96 % English literacy rate, everybody, especially the young, appears to be fluent and can maintain not just a short conversation but a confident and articulate conversation.

Chairs in the Architecture museum – actually surprisingly comfortable

Looking towards the bridge connecting Denmark to Sweden

The Opera House – the roof is used by Red Bull for diving competitions!

The Copenhagen naval base – F352 has only fired one shell in its entire service life – and that was an accident! All too much for the Navy, so they decided to take her out of service immediately afterwards! The old building on the right is a wooden crane that used to be used to lift out and put back ship’s masts.

Looking down from the “Hill” in Superkilen

Looking down from the Architecture Centre’s cafe balcony

17th July 201826th November 2018

Copenhagen – Day 2

The sky was overcast most of this morning which coupled with some occasional light rain and the high temperatures created a rather humid start to the day. Thankfully, we were on the water for a 2-hour trip around Copenhagen harbour.

Kayaking across Copenhagen’s main waterway and looking at our reflection in the glass front of the ‘Black Diamond’ the Royal Library building

Rafting up to our guide Mario’s kayak – he was extremely informative about Copenhagen’s water front and history

With the weather looking rather damp for the rest of the day we headed to the Danish Design Museum. Below just a very small selection of the many hundreds of chair designs we looked at. All in all extremely interesting not only from a design perspective but also from those that never went into production due to the manufacturing challenges some of the designs presented. The final image is that of a set of turning storage boxes.

16th July 201817th July 2018

Copenhagen, Denmark – Day 1

This morning we flew from Gdansk across the Baltic to Copenhagen. It was a relatively short flight of just 55 minutes with really good views of the north of Poland, Sweden and Denmark. By 11.30 am we were on a train into Copenhagen main station followed by a short walk to our hotel which is situated close to the central railway station. Its been really hot and sunny today, so we headed straight out to navigate our way around the city.

Tomorrow we have a guided kayaking tour around the city, so hopefully we’ll manage to upload some video footage. Hopefully I’ll also have time to catch up with the words around the pictures!