October 1, 2009: Copenhagen to Helsinki

It was time to get up and leave Copenhagen. It was kind of sad because we really enjoyed our time there, but we were off to the next adventure. The walk to the train station didn’t seem so bad by the light of day. We got aboard our plane and were in Helsinki in no time.

This is not how we traveled

September 30, 2009: Copenhagen

We got up and decided to hit the gym to try and work off some of the hash from last night (did we jog Kastellen?). After that, we took a train to the suburbs of Copenhagen to visit the open air museum. It was a collection of reconstructed Dutch farmhouses from the last few centuries. It was pretty cool to see how all these people lived but eventually became a tad redundant. Once we were finished here, we headed back into town with our Copenhagen card to see some sites.

Old farmhouse

Windmills galore

September 29, 2009: Copenhagen

We awoke in Copenhagen ready to go explore. We stopped at the corner market, picked up some food for the room, had some breakfast, and headed on our way. We spent the late morning and early afternoon on a serious walking tour. We walked from the hotel down to Kastellen, a star-shaped former castle.

Entrance to the castle

You could walk inside the base and take a walk around the walls. The castle gave a nice view of the harbor and all the wind turbines installed there. Ah, wind turbines. It was nice. We also visited a variety of statues around the castle, like the Little Mermaid.

I don't now what was going on here

September 28, 2009: Oslo to Copenhagen

We got up bright and early and had breakfast because it was tourist day! We started by taking the bus to the outside of town to see the Viking Museum. The Viking Museum had three mostly intact ships on display. The ships were constructed in the 900s and used as burial ships for some important people. The ships were recovered in the 1960s almost perfectly preserved. It was pretty impressive to see this long, narrow wooden ship and think that people used to sail across the North Atlantic in those things. The Vikings were some bad ass people. There were a few artifacts and genetic history of the Vikings on display, but nothing too terribly exciting.

One of the ships