This trip is dedicated to my mother Gill who has been a keen traveller all her life and coming up to 80 years old she told me that she had come to the end of her bucket list. As a keen traveller myself I didn’t think there was any way that you could reach the end as there is always somewhere else of interest, when you tick something off the list you always seem to add 3 more things to it. So it became my mission to find somewhere that she hadn’t already been (that was the difficult part) that … [Read more...]
Copenhagen Stopover Day 1
We arrive in Copenhagen at 6.30am feeling very refreshed after a good sleep in business class and move through airport formalities surprisingly quickly. We get some Danish Krone from the ATM and I realise that I got out rather more than anticipated but Mum’s card wasn’t accepted so good that I had plenty for both of us. From the information desk, we purchase our 2 day Copenhagen Cards: these give you free rides on all public transport (including the train from the airport) and free entry to … [Read more...]
Copenhagen Stopover Day 2
We start our day with breakfast in the basement of our hotel - it is probably one of the best set ups I’ve seen for buffet breakfast and has everything we need. We even manage to make a ham and cheese sandwich and take a pear for lunch as well. We set off to explore, this time heading towards the Rosenborg Slot (or castle). Daniel told us yesterday that if we only had time for one castle then it should be Rosenborg - it is fairly original 17th century and some of the items exhibited in the … [Read more...]