Copenhagen by night (and a bit of day)

Now let's take a stroll around Copenhagen at night...

a nice-looking street (that's a streetlamp up there, not the moon :P )

a fountain (I have no idea where this was)

a booth for tour tickets, and draft beer to go

then I went into a shop (something like Watson's in Malaysia) and found this cutie!

on the way back to the hostel, I stumbled upon this building from postcards (it's the one on the left, you'll see later)

That building was across the road from the City Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen), and this is the city hall (Rådhus)

there's a nice building beside the city hall as well...

closer view of the building across the road (not the postcard one, though maybe this is on some postcards as well)

this is the postcard building!

after crossing the street, looking back to the City Hall Square

Tivoli

I’m a bit confused as to what Tivoli actually is. There is a theme park (which was closed when I was there, but I wasn’t going in anyway). Then there is this, which seems to be a cinema. There’s also a Tivoli Food Hall, which I visited (more on that in another post).

On the way back to the hostel, I dropped into a convenience store nearby just to look around (in Berlin, my friend kept going into convenience stores, and I had found it interesting to see what they had in local stores). Guess what this is?

It’s gloves for you to pick up the cakes/pastries and plastic bags for you to package them in.

The next day I visited Malmö, but did not come back too late. So in the late afternoon, I went out into the streets of Copenhagen again. I happened to take the same route as I had taken the night before, and so managed to see the same buildings in the daytime.

the "Thai Airways" building

in the daytime, I noticed this little statue at the top

the city hall

trying to get all the buildings in, like the shot I took at night

this office building looks a lot less impressive during the day. I wouldn't have recognized it from the postcard pics!

I got my dinner at Torvehallerne again, but this time I tried something that was not local. There were a few food trucks just at the entrance, before going into the building.

It's some kind of Chinese wrap. I am not sure how much it caters to local (Danish) tastes. :P

I ordered the duck one

they prepare it like a crêpe...

There was this Korean hotteok stall just beside it that tempted me too. I was hesitating between this and the Chinese wrap. Unfortunately I did not have another chance to go back and try it.

I couldn't take a clearer photo of the menu because the owner was moving about, and I didn't dare to go back and take a photo after deciding to eat at the other stall :P

A castle and a palace

After leaving the Kastellet fortress in the rain, I came across this monochrome 7-Eleven.

I had heard before of 7-Eleven outlets without their signature colours, but I couldn’t remember what it was about. Later I checked online and found that muted colours were used in areas where they did not want to spoil the beauty of nature by the glaring colours on their logo. And also in heritage areas…which may be the case here?

After that, I reached The King's Garden (Kongens Have), which I had passed earlier but did not enter. This time I entered it (from another entrance, if I remember correctly…it was like a park with a few entrances).

same avenue, difference angle

At this point, there were only raindrops, which is why some people were strolling about.

Rosenborg Castle, in the garden (or should I say, the garden belonged to the castle?)

After that, I got something to eat and went to the hostel to check in.

That evening, I went out again, taking a different road. I went to the train station to check on tickets to Malmö the following day, then went out of the train station by a side exit to discover new roads.

I don't know what this building is, but it looks special :P

After that I reached the Christiansborg Palace.

an interesting mirror-like pool. It didn't look deep, but I didn't check :P

this photo was taken two days later when I passed the palace again. I didn't notice it at the time, but the stacks of wood had disappeared...

beyond that pool (on the right), there was a doorway into this courtyard

I didn’t time my visit for this, but as I entered the courtyard, I saw that something was going on. There was a band playing, and so I stopped to take a look.

After a while, a formal-looking car drove in from the far side of the courtyard and into the doorway beside the band. It took a while after that for the band to disperse and go inside.

By the time I finished watching the band, the sky was even darker...this is outside the courtyard (exiting from the left of the previous photo)

see the horse statue?

that's where I walked out of (unless I remember wrongly :P )

trying to get a photo of the whole castle, but it was just too dark... (that's the same horse statue)

somewhere opposite the road (but further away). The direction matters for the lighting when the sun is setting...this photo was taken after the one of the castle, but it's so bright because it was facing another direction!
Edit: The building at the back on the right is the Børsen ("the bourse") aka the stock exchange building. I didn't know it when I was there...and didn't find out until tragedy struck it.

 

After that I took a stroll along some small roads in the night time. But that will be for the next post!

The mermaid and the fortress

After leaving Amalienborg Castle, I headed to the seaside to see the Little Mermaid and the Kastellet fortress.

Just before reaching the Kastellet, there is St Alban's Church.

the fountain beside it

one of the entrances to the Kastellet is the red roof on the right

But before going to the Kastellet, I made a detour to see the Little Mermaid. Then I entered the Kastellet from the other end instead. The two entrances are opposite each other, connected by a path (or should I call it a courtyard?)

saw a plane by the shore

the little mermaid! (can you see it?) So many people there...

zoom-in

 Information on the mermaid. I was surprised at how young it was (erected in 1913). "Climbing on the sculpture is not allowed." Haha...

It was hard to get a photo with no one else inside. I got tired of waiting for people to leave, so this is the best photo I've got.

see? So many people

Then it was to the Kastellet...

dos and don'ts

upon entering the gate. The other entrance is at the very end...we can see it in the photo

looking back at the gate by which I entered

a "square" inside the fortress?

the gate at the other end

Beside each of the gates, there is a path going up to the star-shaped rampart. I climbed up to walk around.

looking down from the rampart

Looking back at St. Alban's Church, with the sea to the left (see all the windmills?)

there was also a windmill and a cannon up there

It started raining when I was at the Kastellet. I remember taking shelter for a while at the gate, and then leaving anyway.

Symmetry

Spotted Minnie and Mickey in symmetry...