October City Break

James and I went on a well-deserved break for 9 days to Copenhagen. Why Copenhagen you ask. Well, the flights were cheap and a quick perusal on their 'Visit Copenhagen' website compelled us to whip out the credit cards and book. One thing we missed was how expensive the City itself is. Apparently it is now the 10th most expensive city. London is ranked first unsurprisingly (link) but actually being a tourist in Copenhagen felt crazy expensive for us. I guess, as James suggested, when in London we don't eat out constantly and go to things all the time. We essentially fit in what we would perhaps do in London over a month or two into a matter of days - no wonder we were so knackered. Not sure if we are cut out to be tourists, lacking in stamina big time! Now to bombard you with some of my fave pictures!

I just thought this foliage looked very pretty

These next lot of pictures are from our journey up the Round Tower which was pretty cool. The first one which shows the Round Tower is actually taken from the Visit Copenhagen website to give you an idea what it looks like, the rest where from my snap-happy fingers (click here for more info):

This building is their stock exchange. It just looks so Gothic, especially since the day I took these pics it was very over-cast. 

We found out about this place called Cisternerne, a former underground water reservoir which now features different art exhibitions. The two glass triangles in the first picture is the entrance. It felt very ominous inside. I kept expecting the boogie man or worse to grab me - to be honest it gave me the creeps 100% more than the horror house at Tivoli Gardens. Cool experience though. Cisternerne

 

We then headed across the road to Copenhagen's Zoo. I must admit, I always love the tropical bits of zoos with gorgeous birds, butterfly's and all-sorts roaming about.

As James is interested in looking at loads of different weapons for a better idea of how to re-create them for games in his 3D stuff we headed to the Royal Arsenal Museum.

Then my choice was the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, I had seen pictures of the palm house below and thought it looked gorgeous. The other rooms filled with gleaming marble statues did become bit of a bore to me, I think if it had incorporated plants into every room it would have become more compelling to me. I guess I'm just not artistically literate to appreciate it completely. 

This one reminded me of the film 'Never Ending Story', the wolf used to scare me senseless.

Scary marble man

Some pretty castle grounds we visited (kind of forgot the name of this one).

Now my favourite place of the whole trip was Tivoli Gardens. When I first walked in there all of the amazing lights just made it feel completely magical. (Corny bit here) Totally felt like a kid again. We went on the 100 year old roller-coaster which was amazing. First roller-coaster James had ever been on! I must say it was pretty terrifying at bits and left me hyper with adrenaline afterwards. Luckily, despite originally stating he would be fine on all of the scarier looking rides James' opinion soon changed. He no longer wanted to go on any of the faster, upside down-ones which as I am a massive wimp when it comes to fair rides, I was all too happy with.

We also went on a boat tour, to more museums, the botanical gardens and ate in various places, it was wonderful. SO MANY BIKES - it was cool.

Can't wait to plan the next holiday, shame it won't be any-time soon!