Visiting Copenhagen and meeting FartMan
In my first week, I went with my friend into Copenhagen. Pretty impressive and not so clean, masses of people around everywhere. We decided to walk up the main shopping street - and we needed to cross a large square, which was full of tourists, and for some reason I did not want to even look like a tourist, so I kept my camera in my pocket. At the head of this square, and no I don’t know what it is right now, I will fill in the details later when I get home and check on the map, there was a huge building, with spires decorated with gold paint. Looked very impressive.
We took a few pictures, avoiding the skaters who were whizzing in between Danes and tourists, and then walked towards the main shopping drag. There was a line of old men sitting on some park benches, with their old bikes, and cans of beer scattered around the place. They were swapping stories, sleeping or just staring into space. I noticed this a fair bit whilst I have been over here. I guess we have similar sights in Perth, but normally not so out in the open.
There are a lot of leather and fur shops in Scandinavia. Lots of sales too, not that I could afford to pay $400 for a leather coat, but it was tempting. Great styles. What wasn’t so great were the tourist shops. I, of course, had to go in them. I was looking for souvenirs, mainly a hat pin for dad, he collects them. I have collected hat pins for each of the European countries I have visited. I found a hat pin, which cost about $10AUD. Bit of a rip off, but was a nice Danish flag.
I didn’t go see the big palace in Copenhagen, or the little mermaid. A nice Danish lady whom I was sitting next to on the flight from London to DK, told me that lots of Australians go there and I would probably enjoy it. Maybe, but I am not one for following sheep, so I stuck to window shopping and buying some stuff for my sister in the Royal Danish shop. Their seconds for china and glass were expensive, but their best goods, you need a mortgage for. On the otherhand, wow. Totally awesome and I think I would like to have a Royal Danish dinner set one day.
When we were out on the street walking around, you generally don’t think that you are breathing in someone else’s body gases. A good reminder however, was the man walking in front of my friend and I. As we were all part of a human river on this road, this guy.. let out a series of farts timed with each step, each fart getting longer and longer. I looked at my friend who had this determined look on their face, and we maneuvered our way from behind fartman. He ended his fart symphony with something that sounded like it was emitted from a whoopee cushion and by then we were off and running ahead so fast, I was running out of breath; from holding it, running and simultaneously laughing.
Then we made our way to Tivoli. They have a theme park there, restaurants and concert halls. We walked around, went to the beer cave and had a pint of Carlsberg, and watched the crowds. We were going to have dinner at the Viking Restaurant. Granted, there weren’t buxom wenches serving, or viking men stomping around in their fur boots chewing meat off the bone and throwing leftovers to the dogs.. What they did have, was great food. Raindeer, ox, boar.. on a spit. Mmmm. Very nice. The drink I had was a mix of beer and mead. Very tasty.
I have some excellent photo’s of this particular visit to Denmark, and I have been across a couple of other times over the last few weeks to check out other things, which will come up in later posts.
So.. memory of this visit.. Tivoli and FartMan
posted by lori at 8:14 PM
1 Comments:
Hammy said…
Den lille haufru. Amalienborg and Marmokirken. The little mermaid was a bit disappointing - it is little, as the name suggests.
Some of the castles are nice to visit - Rosenborg. Maybe you could visit the Tuborg or Carlsberg breweries.
Don’t forget to post some pics!!