ok,back to the point. Presenting�
COPENHAGEN
the land of H.C. Anderson and bicycles and Carlsberg and many more!
this is the AmalienborgPalace where the royal family resides and the changing of guards take place daily.
i dunno why but thanx to the very pro photographer ms cheng caline the pictures juz turned out to be like tt la...
eyeing the guard...
sneaking a punch on him...
and hence the nice picture
very funny ar...
next we went to the famous little mermaid sculpture. many people had visited it with high expectations, forgetting it is afterall a LITTLE mermaid.
But i still love it anyway.*sayang*
The next day was a day trip to Helsingor, to visit the Kronborg Castle, or also known as Shakespeare's Hamlet.
It was a gloomy cloudy day, perfect setting for a castle notorious for its atrocities.
heh heh heh...poor winnie
ok, the atrocities part is true. it used to house soldiers but the soldiers were mistreated and their only consolation was the almost-free-flow of beer. Their bunks are underground and the humidity is almost 100%. For minor mistakes they were punished severely. They even resorted to murdering their mates so that they could get capital punishment instead.
Back in the city, we went to Christiania, this town in Copenhagen where they are free from the laws of the rest of Copenhagen. I dunno if it's self-declared but it's non-EU. It is legal to peddle soft drugs and whoever who does hard drugs will be driven out of the community. People are free to join in and nobody owns any property in this town. It is indeed a strange concept to us. Many are middle-aged and they seem to be stuck in their hippy era.
somewhere near Christiania, there's the Church of our Saviour. It has a interesting spiral spire which we decided to climb up.
It didn't looked too high up from below...
and it was too late when i realised how high it was! Almost hyperventilatin, i had to grab on to the door for support.
That was not the highest we can climb. Caline and Winnie proceeded to climb up to the narrowest part of the spiral staircase. They wanted me to go but no thanks man. I'm fine with looking at the pictures. You see for yourself how high it was...
In the evening we rushed to get some shopping done. The shops close at 6pm! and the next day they will be closed too as it's the Denmark Liberation Day.
In the background you see the world longest shopping pedestrian street.. stroget. It is so long they need different names for the different sections of the street.
Caline and I stayed for one more day and we visited the other attractions in town, taking our own sweet time.
a very old but still functioning stock exchange office building
marble church
rosenborg palace where they keep the crown jewels. there's a nice park nearby where we spent some good time there.
this is the last castle we visited.. felt like an abandoned palace but i think parts of it are under renovation...
it wld haf been a good end to our short trip but stupid EUROLINE (the bus company we paid to bring us back to Stockholm) was late! for 2 hours! we and 4 others stood in the cold for 2 hours! and we almost walked away...it was like a worst case scenario. lawyer-to-be Caline sweared to lodge a complaint, haf u? hahah.. we were so angry when we boarded the bus and when we asked for a compensation from the bus driver she feigned tt she doesnt understand english. yah rite..
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