Wednesday, May 27, 2015 @ 4:10 PM 0 stares
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| Day pass in Copenhagen~ |
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| Small model of the central station~ |
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| Waow dat perfect lighting and photo |
First thing we did was go meet the Little Mermaid!!! :) There were hella tourists there, especially a lot of Taiwanese and Cantonese ones. It was really difficult getting a clear picture of the little mermaid ): My best picture still has some lady's head in it... sad. But Christy got some pictures with us right next to the mermaid! Yaaaay! Haha it was a nice view~ very touristy.
Afterwards we played the walk in one direction until we find other stuff to see game again. (this has been the general theme of our trip LOL, that and Yelp! or google mapping "attractions") On the way we saw a cathedral again (hella cathedrals) and a fountain of Europa and the Bull. I actually really enjoy seeing the Roman and Greek myth statues/busts after having taken CLCV 115 since I know the stories behind them! TL;DR of Europa and Bull story, Zeus is infatuated by Europa a beautiful maiden, and to avoid the prying eyes of Hera (his wife) he transforms into a bull and Europa is enchanted by the bull. He reveals his true form and rapes her after carrying her to Crete and she gets preggos and has Minos (also a bull later). It's supposed to represent the creation of the new European Union? (thus the prevalence in places not Rome/Greece?). Yup. Interesting stuff. Love myth. /nerd.
We also had a banana and nutella crepe! There were tons of stalls here, was good even though I hate banana. Love nutella, love crepe, hate banana.
At Nyhavn we decided to eat at this place called Capt. Horn it had pretty good reviews on Yelp! (my blog is slowly becoming a Yelp! worshipping shrine... LOL). We had brunch there~ I think the Sweds aren't big on brunch (they do breakfast and lunch, separately) whereas the Danish seem to be! They had a brunch combo platter composed of a slice of watermelon, a salad, a wedge of cheese, eggs and sausage, some yogurt with raisins and granola, and some smoked salmon with sour cream. Actually a really interesting composition. We mistakenly heard that there were pancakes so we were confused when they didn't come. I think the maple syrup was supposed to either be eaten with sausage or yogurt? Not sure. I ate it with the yogurt though. Was good. Salmon was good too, salmon always fresh in Europe yay! Not a fan of the sour cream so I scraped it off. Sausages good, eggs good. Did not like the cheese... never a fan of cheese. It was really dry. I have child taste buds so I like pretty much only particularly like Gouda or Munster cheese.
The real MVP of this meal though was the cappuccino! At first we got the latte and I finished it all before the brunch platter even came, and since I saw the cappuccino on the chalkboard after the fact I decided to order it~ It comes embellished with a line of chocolate shavings... yum. Was real good, the latte was just good, but the cappuccino was wonderful! And when you're in Europe pretty much standards on coffee are heightened. I think I'll have withdrawal once I get back to the US :'( Need Flying Machine everyday to even compare...
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| Ayyy, there's Taipei 101. REPPIN' |
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| Harry Potter :D |
Next we went to the World Guinness Record Museum I actually have a question... Is that the beer company? Kinda like how Michelin does the tires and the Michelin stars? Anyway, I digress. I think there should be ones elsewhere not just Sweden, but we saw it and it was interesting and very interactive anyway. What sold us was when we went in there was this moving statue (of the tallest man in the world) I was terrified when it stood up by itself. It's shocking how tall he was. He's just under 9ft. Imagine living like that, life is so inconvenient. Heaviest guy in the world 1400 lbs, smallest waist in the world... something like 15 inch waist... terrifying. To put that into perspective the smallest sold pants in a normal store is like 22 inch... There were some other interesting records too but those were the only ones I remember.
We also visited a horror museum after it. Don't have any pictures from it though :( sad. I don't think it was meant to be as scary as we found it to be. But we like legitimately screamed a couple of times (actually we screamed in the World Guinness Record Museum too when the snakes in the jungle portion randomly rattled as we walked over it... so scary). But things in the horror museum like randomly move and make loud noises. Do not like. S'okay was fun though haha.
Next we visited the Church of Our Savior it was really quiet and melancholic. They have this organ structure on the wall that constantly plays a song. We just sat and rested and took it all in (at this point we've walked a crazy amount). It was a nice stop~ The detail was gorgeous.
Then we visited the Queen's Palace more specifically her winter palace I believe. Saw a bust of her majesty on a horse. Saw a nice fountain and saw the palace guards change shifts! Was fun :) Hahaha I think they must've thought we were so silly when we kept trying to take pics with them, but like... they can't interact with us. Hahaha. Must be such a tiring job...
Finally we visited Tivoli Gardens which was highly recommended by the little tour guide lady we met on the train ride to Copenhagen yesterday. Tivoli was primarily an amusement park for children/adults of all ages, but to go on the rides you have to pay extra money so we decided to mainly just go look at the gardens. There were some other interesting things to see as well such as a fake "Chinatown", Peacock theater, various specialty stores.
However, my favorite thing in Tivoli was ice cream at Vaffelbageriet which is rated the #9 best ice cream in the world! :) Yum~ What a treat. I got the strawberry soft serve (even though it was white and not pink - Europeans don't believe in food coloring...) covered with chocolate powder (they call it sprinkles). The soft serve was so soft and delicious~ Definitely one of the best ice creams I've ever eaten! So worth!
Finally after Tivoli, we ate a quick dinner at a Thai place because the ramen place we had wanted to go to was closed ):. Then we made our way to Gothenburg. It was raining and late when we arrived so we just went to our hotel at Hotel Pigalle. My first impression of it was that it reminded me of a murder hotel. I felt as though I'd step in the shower and be murdered by a H.H Holmes... never to be seen again...
Labels: Copenhagen, Gothenburg