{"id":4002,"date":"2010-11-08T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2010-11-08T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T07:25:29","slug":"europe-holiday-denmark-part-iii-i-think-i-have-fallen-in-love-with-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=4002","title":{"rendered":"Europe holiday &#8211; Denmark &#8211; Part III &#8211; I think I have fallen in love with Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen seems to remind me a lot of my home city &#8211; Melbourne &#8211; a very culturally orientated family city with a good mix of multicultural aspects, cafes, bars, it&#8217;s people are generally friendly, but in addition, it is a much more photogenic city, although much colder.<\/p>\n<p>I loved its train system, the <strong>Copenhagen Pass<\/strong> was well worth it if one is going to visit a few museums and catch a few trains to almost anywhere on the main island. The trains were clean, not crowded, and even catered well for cyclists, although few seemed to catch the train while I was there. The trains have WiFi, and even a &#8220;silent&#8221; part of the carriage where people are not allowed to talk or make noise &#8211; how nice is that!<\/p>\n<p>I stayed at the <strong>Scandic Copenhagen Hotel<\/strong> which is very close to the city (only a 10 minute walk to the Central Station, even closer to Vesteport station), but far enough away to be quiet. I highly recommend this hotel, staff were friendly, room very clean, and the Junior Suite was extremely roomy at <strong>46 sq. m <\/strong>(instead of the usual 26 sq. m and 14 sq.m in some hotels) with lots of windows to take in the views, and not overly expensive by European standards, particularly when you have <strong>free WiFi in your room<\/strong> and full buffet breakfast included! Just be warned, breakfast can be very busy and noisy as there are a lot of guests, but there was never any major issues there, and I loved it so much, I extended our stay there to 9 days.<\/p>\n<p>Another little aspect to be aware of is that the hotels in Scandinavia seem to give you adjoining two single beds with an individual doona on each when you request a double bed. Now this was actually conducive to a better night&#8217;s sleep &#8211; or perhaps I just did a LOT of walking every day!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the view from my window looking west, away from the city, one late afternoon after a few showers had passed (Panasonic GH-1 Micro Four Thirds with gradient filter to bring out the cloud detail):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Denmark2010\/P1100184.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Denmark2010\/P1100184.jpg\" alt=\"hotel view\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of our time though in Copenhagen was filled with sunny days, albeit only 8-10deg C, just a touch warmer than Stockholm, but one still needed a coat, hat, gloves and scarf when the breeze picked up or the sun went down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Denmark2010\/P1100472.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Denmark2010\/P1100472.jpg\" alt=\"canals\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ameliaborg palace in Copenhagen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Denmark2010\/P1110751.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Denmark2010\/P1110751.jpg\" alt=\"Ameliaborg palace\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, a view from my hotel room at dusk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Denmark2010\/P1100941.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/Europe\/Denmark2010\/P1100941.jpg\" alt=\"dusk\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copenhagen seems to be a great compromise between the Scandinavian cultures, level of tourism, safety, cleanliness and cost effectiveness, it is just a pity it is so cold, and those damn bikes clogging up the pedestrian access everywhere. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they need to make a computerised multi-storey bike park where cyclists can drop off their bike and a computerised transport system stacks them away out of the public&#8217;s way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen seems to remind me a lot of my home city &#8211; Melbourne &#8211; a very culturally orientated family city with a good mix of multicultural aspects, cafes, bars, it&#8217;s people are generally friendly, but in addition, it is a much more photogenic city, although much colder. I loved its train system, the Copenhagen Pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[201,198,18,156],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-photography","tag-denmark","tag-europe","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}