Day 113 - April 23

Still not the warmest (but sunny!) we nonetheless took a walk through Vesterbro to get to Frederiksberg Have.







I haven’t explored Frederiksberg very much at all – it’s still basically part of Copenhagen but is its own municipality with its own postal code, etc. The park was nice, and we sat down to have a picnic. However, just as weather.com had predicted, as soon as we began eating, the clouds began to came, the wind picked up, and it suddenly turned freezing.







View from the top of the "hill".

A cool tower at the zoo.



Finishing up our lunch, we walked to the other side of the park where, unbeknownst to me until I had looked at a map of the park, there was another castle (well, palace…). It’s a Baroque palace, so built later than Rosenborg and Frederiksborg (Confusing? There’s a Frederiksborg Slot and a Frederiksberg Slot). The placement on a hill, the gardens/water fountain, and the architecture really reminded me of Versailles. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t realized the existence of this palace before now! Now it’s an Officers Academy.

















These were the cutest kids ever. Afraid of looking sketchy, I then had to take a sneaky, sketchy photo...but seriously. I had to.


Now thoroughly cold, we had a hot chocolate (among the things I’ll miss when I’m back – palaces and cute cafes with amazing hot chocolate), picked up a pastry for later, then walked to Christiania.

Just another day in central Copenhagen...





I've taken this photo a billion times now, but I love the building.

My feet were rather sore at the end of the day, but we had to walk off the hot chocolate and…


Two of the best pastries I’ve ever had. I think I’ve talked about my favorite street, Skt. Pedersgade (photo). Well, there’s a bakery there I’d been meaning to try, but it’s closed on weekends and I haven’t been to the center in the last weekdays. Then, I found a website about Danish culture in which the website creator listed his top three bakeries in Copenhagen, and this was listed. If it wasn’t already a must, that put it on the fast-track of bakeries. The assortment all looked mouth-watering, and Dana has made it my mission (not very hard to accept) to try everything there. I’ll keep you posted.