Wednesday, June 24

We didn't dock in Copenhagen until 11:00, per schedule. Once we left the ship, there were 3 different hop-on/hop-off bus companies ready to take care of us. Since we didn't like the choice we made in Stockholm (Green seemed to be better and came more often than Red) we wanted to be careful. Each guy had a different price and their descriptions were not the best for clarity. One of the guys told us that the lowest priced guy was Pakistani and sent all of his money home to his family. So? But, we shied away from him because he didn't like all of our questions and told us to go away. So we moved on.

Using this kind of bus was a good deal, because the ship docked about 10 minutes from city center and the price also included a boat tour.

The weather looked iffy, so we decided to stay on the bus most of the time. Our bus was marked "Mermaid Tour" which, of course, took us to the famous mermaid that was in walking distance of our hotel that we would be staying at tomorrow. 

The four of us got off eventually and transferred to the Christiania Tour which took us by this famous neighborhood of aging hippies who are permitted by the city of Copenhagen to be somewhat self-governing. Soft drugs are ok, but they can't sell them openly like they used to.

The Tivoli amusement park was an inspiration to Walt Disney in planning Disneyland. In my parent's family album, there are pictures from 1949 and it looks much the same.

No heels on this pavement and it was everywhere.

There are various ways to get around the city. Linda and I thought we might hire a rickshaw bicycle to take us around a bit, but we didn't.

The tour buses stopped running around 5:00, so we returned to the ship. We were all tired and just went back to our cabins. Later, about 9:00, Heidi and Doug knocked on our door inviting us to join them in walking around and drinking somewhere. We decided it was too late and said goodnight.