Today we had a local guide show us Copenhagen, or at least the highlights. The city has a famous shopping area, which is a long street that has been cordoned off for pedestrians only and that winds through the oldest part of the city. Here we are at the "Stork Fountain". Supposedly, the midwives dance around it after graduation. Some have questioned whether those are storks or not.
This is one of the few remaining old medieval buildings in Copenhagen. Much was destroyed in an early fire, and even more destroyed later by the British in the Napoleanic Wars. Denmark was on the loosing side.
This is an old telephone booth converted into a coffee kiosk.
Jim Martin: You need some of these for your business!
A "typical" Danish lunch, or at least that is what we were told. Open faced sandwiches of a wonderful sour dough like rye bread. Here we have lox, shrimp with quail eggs and beef as the toppings.
Copenhagen is a city of bicycles. Most families have one of these for transporting kids, groceries etc. We saw what looked like a FedEx type delivery go whizzing by, but I wasn't quick enough with the camera. The Danish princess takes her two youngest children to kindergarten in one of these.
Denmark and Scandanavia in General are becoming a cashless society. Credit cards and cell phone apps are replacing cash, and very quickly.
And of course, Denmark is the land of Legos. That is a mural made of Lego blocks behind Vera.
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