Train trip to Copenhagen!!
Backpacks on our backs, we hopped on our bicycles and rode to the train station. There are racks for parking your bicycles everywhere. Most people either park them and get on the train, or, you can bring it with you so you have transportation at the other end of your trip! As this was our first trip, we decided to park them in Odense.
We went into the station and looked up the next train to Copenhagen. They run about every 1/2 hour, and always on time. Mary stepped up to the automated ticket machine, and soon we were at the track waiting for our train.
We boarded our train (after asking a local if we were getting on the right one! We didn't want to end up in Istanbul!). The trains are very nice and comfortable. There were several stops on our 1 3/4 hour ride. People got on and off. We met a young woman and her son sitting across from us. They were traveling for the day to meet friends. They lived in Odense and were very nice. She gave Mary her FaceBook address and told her if she wanted to practice her Danish to call her!
We arrived in Copenhagen. What a beautiful train station! Out of a movie.
The day in Copenhagen was just a Farabee walkabout. We did not have anywhere we had to go or see. We just walked around and took in the sights.
Wow, what sites. I know I have talked about all the bicycles in Denmark, but they were everywhere! There was a sea of bicycles parked at the staition, waiting for their owners return.
There were bicycle "parking lots" all over the city.
The train station is beautiful outside as well, and located across the street from Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest amusement parks in the world (closed until next month, I see another trip soon!)
There were plazas and parks everywhere. People walking, shopping and sightseeing. We walked thru one of the main shopping areas in the city.
Had a wonderful lunch at a local place (they served Guinness!)
And then we found the Lego Store! WOW! Not much from the outside, but step inside, amazing. Mary has posted some photos on her FaceBook page, so I'm not going to duplicate those.
What I want to show you is the Lego Wall.
Besides looking like a work of art, it is such a simple concept. Pick up a container. Fill it with all one color, many colors, all one shape, or many shapes. Anything you want. Weigh it. Give Lego your money!
Little kids (and big ones!) were going crazy over this!
I attempted to lock Mary up in one of the Guard Posts, but she got out.
We walked over several of the canals that flow through Copenhagen. There are canal boats you can take tours on.
After a long day of "walkabout", we headed back to the train station and headed back to Odense. We got back and our bicycles were there right where we left them.
A nice day trip, one we will do again.
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