Copenhagen Day 2

Day 2 in Copenhagen the weather turned out to be really nice which we haven't really seen a lot of since we've been here. So we decided to take advantage of it and explore the city by foot. We started out of course by visiting the Carlsberg brewery.

The "gates" to the brewery

Once you get close to the gate you see each one has these elephants on them. The father created these as a way to protect the city and each elephant has the initials of their children on it and looking down from above are statues of the parents. I read all about this before coming, John was thoroughly impressed with my history knowledge.

Once inside it was a self guided tour and you get 2 drink tickets for beers.

some old beer bottles

 

old wagons they use to transport the beer with

 

they have their own horses!

 

After the tour we headed to cash in our free beers and grab a bite to eat.

the bar, it had a copper coating which was really cool

 

We ended up going halfies on the meals since they both sounded really good.

roast beef sandwich with lettuce, pickles, marinated onions, and onion straws

sausage made with dark beer and potato salad

 

After the brewery John mapped out a 3 .5 hour walking tour of the city for us. It was so pretty to walk round and look at all the architecture and history that we don't have here.

the city was filled with canals similar to Venice they offered canal tour but we did not take one

 

changing of the guard at the palace

the palace

 

Mermaid statue that the Carlsberg donated to the city apparently it is one of these most popular statues/photographed in the world

some weird car/tank/bike? we saw and John had to have a picture

Copenhagen opera house

 We finished up the walking tour around 4 and decided to break for a snack and a drink.

it was cold!

Afterwards we walked around the square for a bit before deciding on dinner at a tapas place. Since we had a snack we weren't starving so we ordered 4 small plates to share and a bottle of wine. :) I mean we are on vacation.

garlic bread

meat & vegetable stuffed empanadas

olives

some type of fancy/traditional Spanish sausage

 After the 4 dishes were were deciding if we should get one more but then we decided dessert was the way to go. I ordered the creme brulee and John a cheese plate. I know I passed up the cheese but sweet was the way to go and John shared a bite or 2 of the cheeses. ;)