The Red Bus

16 September, 2018 – Second Day in Copenhagen, Weather Warm

It is a good looking day so we decide we will try the Hop On / Hop Off Bus Tour to get a feel for the city. While we were away, Julie stays back at the apartment to work on her presentation. We were going to go with a Red Bus company that we saw on the map we picked up from the airport, the main feature of which was strip clubs. We walk down towards the station where there is a drop off but run into a ticket seller for the other Red Bus company and decide to go with that. We buy a 3 day ticket.

P1030280 — Tanika hopping onto the Red Bus

We ride around for a while and decide to Hop off at stop 8, Nvhavn, which means New Harbour. In fact, it is the oldest harbour in CPH. We cross the river.

P1030268 — Ceremonial Bike Locks on the bridge

P1030270 — The Sign reflects exactly what you might think that it does

P1030277 — We select one of the many restaurants on the water on the other side

P1030272 — Looking out over the multi-coloured houses on the other side

P1030275 — I ordered famous Danish fish cakes, also called Frikedeller

These were not very good at all. They had some strange flavour that I did not like, hard to describe but definitely unappealing to me. I was not having much luck with my choices of specialty Danish foods.

We then got back on the bus and took a long journey to the highlight (sic or is that sick) of the trip:

P1030282 — The Little Mermaid – what a let down

We then get back on the bus and take a long, tortuous journey back into town. Many streets were closed off due to construction and our journey was nothing like that shown on the map. We finally get off a long way from home. Ryan lead us even further out of the way to look at some restaurants etc. We finally stop at one.

P1030283 — Guess who ordered this drink?

Yes, it was me! I gave the cinnamon roll to Ryan but ate all the creamy, gooey stuff on top. The reason? It was hot chocolate with brandy, a good solid slug of brandy, quite strong.

We then took the LONG walk back to apartment through the financial and business district. At the end of that I was extremely stiff and sore and could hardly move. I voted that we go to a local place tonight and Julie found one.