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- Couple in front of Maersk building, Copenhagen
OK, I’ve already fallen in love with Copenhagen and the rest of Denmark. Here are some interesting facts:
- Copenhagen has the world’s oldest amusement park, Tivioli Gardens. Apparently Walt Disney visited it in the 1950s and used it as his inspiration for Disneyland.
- Almost everyone in Denmark speaks English well, so Americans have no trouble communicating here. Danes begin learning English in grade school.
- Area-wise, Denmark is about twice the size of Massachusetts. Population-wise, it’s about equivalent to Maryland. Not very big! Yet there is so much history here.
- Sailing, my passion, is very popular here! Copenhagen is on Oersund, or “The Sound” which connects the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
We hired a limousine and driver to take us around today. The highlights were probably the castles that we toured. Everything is decorated just as it was in the 1700s.
We also took the ferry over to Sweden and spent a couple of hours there. We wanted to have Swedish customs stamp our passports, but the customs offices were closed! There is not a lot of (read: zero) security concern between Denmark and Sweden.
- Copenhagen Canal
Copenhagen, Denmark: It was a lot of flying, but we landed in Copenhagen about 17 hours after leaving home. We changed planes in Washington DC, but were only on the ground there a little over an hour.
After today, Scandanavian Airlines (SAS) is my new favorite airline. Great service, great food, and a cool video screen for every seat. On the screen you could watch a variety of movies, play a lot of different video games, and even follow the plane’s progress across the Atlantic on a GPS display.
We landed about 7:15 AM on Sunday local time, but it was only 10:15 PM Saturday in California. We didn’t sleep much on the plane, and the plan is to try to stay up until it gets dark here tonight so that we can quickly adjust to the new time zone. That will mean no sleep for about 36 hours, though.
We’ve already walked around the city center and taken a boat tour of the canals. There are a lot of buildings here that are more than 400 years old. Wow…there is a lot of history here.
- Regal Cinema, Dublin, California
It’s been over a year since I had a vacation, but tomorrow I’m leaving for a 3-week trip. Wife and self are flying to Copenhagen, Denmark. We’ll be there for a few days seeing Copenhagen and hopefully also getting over into Sweden. Then on Wednesday we’ll get on a cruise ship and sail back across the Atlantic to the United States. Along the way we stop in London, Dublin, Belfast, Reykjavik, Qaqortoq (Greenland), St. John’s (Newfoundland, Canada), New York City, and end in Fort Lauderdale. I’ll be back at work on October 6.
I haven’t been to Phoenix in many years, but one thing hasn’t changed at all since my last visit: it seems as if there is a Circle K store on almost every corner. In case you don’t know what Circle K is, think 7-Eleven or Kwik-E-Mart. Circle K stores are so ubiquitous here that I almost think you could give someone driving directions along the lines of “turn right at the third Circle K, then go a little past the second Circle K, and it’ll be on your left.”
January is a great time to visit Phoenix because the high temperatures are only in the 60s, instead of the 110s or 120s of summertime.
As I walk around Pasadena (I don’t have a car here), I can’t get that old Beach Boys song, The Little Old Lady from Pasadena, out of my head (”…she’s a terror out on Colorado Boulevard.”)
Speaking of Colorado Boulevard, that’s the main street on the Rose Parade route. I see signs advertising parking for the Rose Parade, which is now only a few weeks away.
Someone told me that there is a doggie bakery here, and that it’s something that makes Pasadena unique. However, I checked this out online, and the doggie bakery here is just one of a nationwide chain, so it’s not an only-in-Pasadena thing. By the way, it’s called Three Dog Bakery.
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