Impression of Copenhagen with pictures(哥本哈根游感+图)

本帖于 2025-05-29 10:55:10 时间, 由普通用户 最西边的岛上 编辑

We spent 5 nights and 4 very busy days in Copenhagen, capital of Denmark and where Hans Christian Andersen, the author of “The little mermaid” and “A little match girl”, wrote many of his fairytales.

 

Joy shared is joy doubled, knowledge shared is knowledge gained. Hope you don’t mind me sharing some of what I saw, heard and felt during my short stay there.

 

#1. Descendants of viking people are white and blonde, and very very tall, lots of women are 6ft (180cm) in height and men are giants!  With 5’2” (160cm) height, I can’t even reach the overhead holding bar inside the subway trains, felt like a dwarf. 怒

 

#2. All public washrooms are shared by all genders. Felt quite odd the first time to see both men and women in the same washroom washing hands outside the toilet booths什么, but one gets used to it very quickly. 

 

#3. Daylight is long and everything is very expensive there: a cup of coffee costs $10CAD, and felt cost an arm and a leg to eat a simple meal in restaurants. 小声点

 

#4. Different from any city I have been to so far, I didn’t see any panhandlers nor homeless people in streets.  I was told by our walking tour guide that Denmark has very good social support system (eg. with 20%+ housing is social housing) to help its disadvantaged people. 

 

I highly admire this, as I strongly believe the measurement of advancement of a society lies not only in its GDP, but also in how well it takes care of the disadvantaged ones.

 

That’s one of the main reasons I love and chose to stay in Canada (over US), although I must admit that Canada can't compare to the Scandinavian countries. To me, it has nothing to do with right or left wing politics, but the basic humanity.

 

BTW, not only is tuition free, Danish people get paid about $1000US/month to study in university !!!  I’m not sure if Trump could match those even if he did take Greenland. 财迷

 

#5. Bicycles, bicycles, and they are everywhere. The tour guide said 9 out of 10 people in Copenhagen have at least one bike.  Many use bikes as their main transportation, and the city has built very good bike infrastructure. We were told there are even separate bike paths between towns/villages.  The weather wasn’t friendly, cold and rainy when we were there, otherwise I would love to bike some, rather than depending on No 11 all the time. 

 

So much to say but so little time. Have to go now, till next time … … 

 

Note: all pictures below were taken by my dear cellphone “devil”

 

 

Denmark parliament building (used to be king’s palace)

 

 

Copenhagen city hall 

 

The little mermaid looking out to sea

 

Danish navy on solid ground (with permission) 

 

Inside Copenhagen university old library 

 

The famous ones associated with university 

 

Copenhagen art gallery, the one we missed first 

 

An original drawing by Michelangelo 

 

Canal built using Swedish labour 

 

Bikers everywhere 

 

Expensive (+ tip) lunch in museum cafe 

 

The shared washroom 


 

A magpie outside our stay

 

A gentle visitor who came into our stay without invitation, and spoke universal cat language with me


 

 

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Did you buy a box of match on the street at night? -永远老李- 给 永远老李 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 06:59:35

对不起老李,travel’s taxing & sunset’s 2 late in Copenhagen,没买成;-) -最西边的岛上- 给 最西边的岛上 发送悄悄话 最西边的岛上 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 07:17:53

回想一下安徒生那故事,心痛 -永远老李- 给 永远老李 发送悄悄话 (234 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 09:38:04

握手,永远的痛!安徒生本人的真实故事也令人哀伤感叹!世界啊,人生呀,有多少事儿是走完了的时候才开始明白。唉。。 -最西边的岛上- 给 最西边的岛上 发送悄悄话 最西边的岛上 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 09:59:53

Tks 4sharing! Great pics!Very informative,thru a visitor‘s眼睛 -暖冬cool夏- 给 暖冬cool夏 发送悄悄话 暖冬cool夏 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 07:54:49

Thx. My vision’s narrow&short, but I learned lots via travel -最西边的岛上- 给 最西边的岛上 发送悄悄话 最西边的岛上 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 08:54:13

Thanks for sharing. A lot to like. -7grizzly- 给 7grizzly 发送悄悄话 7grizzly 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 08:28:31

Take the fight to the ground&neutralize their long reach:-)) -7grizzly- 给 7grizzly 发送悄悄话 7grizzly 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 08:30:10

They tried 2 b neutral but taken by Nazi in 6hrs in WW2. :-( -最西边的岛上- 给 最西边的岛上 发送悄悄话 最西边的岛上 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 08:58:29

Part of the $10 goes to support their benefits, no doubt. -7grizzly- 给 7grizzly 发送悄悄话 7grizzly 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 08:35:26

Good catch, made me feel much better now. Thanks:-) -最西边的岛上- 给 最西边的岛上 发送悄悄话 最西边的岛上 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 08:55:38

Do Danes concern about Greenland&Trump? -移花接木- 给 移花接木 发送悄悄话 移花接木 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 12:18:14

No idea. They didn’t mention it, like Trump doesn’t exist;-) -最西边的岛上- 给 最西边的岛上 发送悄悄话 最西边的岛上 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 05/29/2025 postreply 12:28:43

Nice writing and pictures! Thx for sharing! -godog- 给 godog 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 05/30/2025 postreply 09:02:01

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