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10 Things Worth Doing While Visiting Copenhagen
here are things you under cover. Note that you are
simply have to do when not allowed to take pictures of
coming to the city. This the Christiania – many signs will
will help you feel its spirit and remind you of this. That is why
atmosphere. Here are they. the best way to see the community
is to visit it. There is a sign
1. Observe the city from the saying “NOW U ENTER EU” at the
observatory on its Rundetaarn – exit.
The Round Tower. Thousands of
flues, gulls, basketball 3. Go to the youngest and most
playgrounds and even a small part developed metro in the world
of Sweden (if you stand on your (opened here in 2002), take the
tiptoes) are seen from the roof. front seat and fulfill your
childhood dream: imagine yourself
2. Step over the most transparent a train engineer. All the trains
and pleasant EU border straight are operated by computers, so
in the city centre and get into there is only a windshield that
the Christiania hippie community, separates you from the tunnel.
or the Freetown. This is where Though taking your seat might be
you will find yourself at the uneasy: there are lots of
eternal festival of disobedience, children eager to “operate” the
surrounded with the atmosphere of vehicle. At the moment the map of
the 60’s. Sex, drugs and Copenhagen metro is one of the
rock’n’roll. Grandchildren of most ergonomic in the world –
flowers sell aroma sticks, there is only one line divided
t-shirts and beads bracelets. A into 2 at the Christianshavn
couple of years ago marijuana was station.
also sold freely here, but the
police has cut this business 4. Take a train and go to
short. Still, drugs are sold Elsinore, survey the Dutch
province of Kronborg and the real stately. When one mentions true
Hamlet’s castle. You will get calmness, I think of loneliness
pleasure from surveying of the Marble Church.
gingerbread houses with geranium
growing on their window-sills, 7. Drop into local cemetery which
strange postindustrial castle looks more like a city park.
approach and even Dutch graffiti. Almost all the people Denmark is
Descend to the castle’s cold proud of are buried here: Niels
cells illuminated by oil lamps Bohr, Soren Kierkegaard and of
only, listen to your own steps course Hans Christian Andersen.
echoing, get easily lost (because Walk along the paths, stand by
there are no signs here) and Andersen’s grave covered with
found. Flip a coin into the children’s paintings and visit
international heap of money deep the flea market along its walls.
inside the courtyard well, join
an excursion and listen to what a 8. Cross the bridge that connects
guide can say about Shakespeare. Denmark and Sweden and visit
Malmo, the neighboring Swiss
5. Hang 63 meters above the city. Fellow travelers will tell
ground, enjoy the landscape and you that some ten years ago one
then go down at an enormous could hardly imagine a trip to
speed. This is what the “Gold Malmo in a car. People used
Tower”, one of the attractions at ferryboats to get here. The
the Tivoli amusement park is. bridge is large and two-storied:
there are cars and buses driving
6. Sit on a bench in front of the along the higher level and trains
domed Marble Church and read a along the lower one.
book or simply enjoy the
atmosphere. On workdays the place 9. Wrap yourself into plaid and
is empty. It looks simple and enjoy coffee in one of the Nuhavn
cafes. Nuhavn is a harbour, with
paved roadway, channel and 10. Walk along the lakes that
mansions. Observe masts, “rain” surround the city. The lakes bear
from the ship ropes, tiled roofs royal names and are worth seeing.
and red Dutch matchboxes swimming But before you go there you
by. Then go for a walk to Kongens should step onto the bridge and
Nytorv, the city’s largest square decide what shore you like most –
with the old opera house, copper the left or the right one. There
monuments and a huge shopping are twice as much seagulls and
mall called Magasin. swans as people here.
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