Europe 26 – Copenhagen

I moved my trip north to get away from the heat and it was the right decision. So much nicer in the north!

First thing I got a City Pass that’s good on all public transport for 24 hours. Cost me about $15 compared to the $4 in Warsaw. But I was expecting everything to be more expensive here 🙂

Went to my hotel. Small-ish with a strange shower, but it’ll do. At least there was a fan. AC is definitely not a thing in Denmark.

After a good night sleep and a late-ish morning I headed out. I decided to do some troll chasing while in Denmark. They are these awesome recycled sculptures by Thomas Dambo. First one I found is Green George.

He was randomly in this really fun sassy skatepark alternative, love-everyone spot called Christiania. Fun murals, interesting food, people sunbathing in bikinis and enjoying themselves. 🙂

Next the Vor Freisers Kirke attached to this cool spirally tower called the Stairway to Heaven. Tickets were sold out for the morning so I didn’t climb but the church was cool.

Super awesome archangels

Huge organ “held up” by these elephants (a royal symbol I guess!)

So many bikes here! And no one locks them up. Honest folk the Danes.

Walked along the canal

Took a bus to the downtown area and briefly saw the Christianborg Palace. Might come back for a tour later.

Birthplace of the famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr. He came up with an atom model with discrete orbits which still holds today.

Cool fountain with a spouting frog 🙂

Many many vendors…sprung for the strawberries. Wise choice. 🙂

Hellingaandskirken

So peaceful and welcoming with the beautiful organ music. And all the wood makes it feel more homey than the huge Gothic cathedrals.

Couldn’t skip the Lego store in the birthplace of Lego. Can’t wait to visit Billund where they actually originated.

Found a bust of Niels Bohr as an older man in front of the University of Copenhagen

The birthplace of Ole Roemer, who figured out that light doesn’t travel instantaneously and came up with a pretty accurate for the speed using lanterns and mountaintops.

The Round Tower – an observatory here since 1642. It replaced the observatory built by Tycho Brahe who is considered to be the best naked-eye astromer ever and made incredibly detailed star charts with no instruments whatever. His ideas about how the solar system worked were pretty wacky but his charts in the hands of Johannes Kepler, a mostly blind astronomer with great ideas about the mechanisms proved to be the foundation of modern astronomy.