Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 7, 8 and 9, 2024 – Copenhagen.

On Friday, June 7, I flew from Porto to Copenhagen. I landed at 2:00 PM and by 3:00 I was at Annie and Peter’s house. They have a beautiful home and a wonderful garden. We sat on the porch drinking Danish craft beer and spent the afternoon catching up.

Annie cooked a wonderful dinner featuring frikadelle, which is a pork meatball and a national favorite in Denmark. I love frikadelle and Annie makes fabulous frikadelle.

On Saturday we had breakfast and went to the grocery store. They have a Danish bakery in the store and we picked up Danish pastries. When we got home from the grocery store we had a nice second breakfast of Danish pastries.

After our second breakfast we took the metro to downtown Copenhagen.

Next we visited the Rosenborg Castle, the residence of the Danish Royal family. We timed our visit just right and got to see the changing of the guard.

After that we went to Tivoli Gardens. Tivoli Gardens is an amusement park with beautifully landscaped gardens in the middle of downtown Copenhagen. It really is a special place.

After Tivoli we took the Metro back to the house and took a little rest before dinner.

Annie and Peter made a dinner reservation at a restaurant in the tower of the building, Christiansborg Palace, where the legislature meets. The ceiling of the restaurant was probably 4 stories high and the walls were adorned with carved stone lions and coats of arms.

On Sunday morning Annie taught an exercise class at a local gym and Peter and I attended the class. Annie is a certified trainer and her class was fun but physically challenging. My legs are still sore from the squats she had us doing.

After the gym we went home and Annie made smorgasbord sandwiches.

After lunch Peter and I went down to Nuhavn and went on a canal tour of Copenhagen.

After our canal tour we had a beer in Nuhavn and then took the Metro home. Once we got home we walked to a very nice Italian restaurant.

That’s it from Copenhagen. I hope you had a great weekend wherever you are.

Tomorrow is a travel day for me. I fly from Copenhagen to Manchester on Ryan Air and then transfer planes to take a flight from Manchester to Lisbon on Easy Jet.