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Great views from the top of the tower, which you captured so well. More great photos once you reached ground level. That's quite interesting about the development project for one of the town square. Perhaps, it will be on the scale of Disney Springs?
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Great views from the top of the tower, which you captured so well. More great photos once you reached ground level. That's quite interesting about the development project for one of the town square. Perhaps, it will be on the scale of Disney Springs?
It will certainly be something to see. I hope we get to go back one day to see it for ourselves.
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Thursday 16 June – part nine: meeting the Little Mermaid…
We were going to get a couple of selfies done at Nyhavn, but Mark spotted our hop-on, hop-off bus, so we made a run for it…
… and caught it!
I got a few photos as we drove along…
This is the Amalienborg Palace, which is made up of four buildings around an octagonal square. They were originally homes for wealthy families, but when the Christiansborg Slot burnt down in 1794, Christian VII bought one of the four palaces and turned it into his residence.
So if you’ve been keeping score, we saw all three palaces, but didn’t actually visit one. Well, I was having problems deciding which one to visit…
We carried on our drive, seeing lots more beautiful buildings…
… and even this beautiful park that surrounds the Kastellet or the fortress. One was first erected here in in 1626, but following a Swedish attach, the configuration was changed to make it stronger later that century.
The next bus stop was for the Little Mermaid, and we weren’t going to get off, but when the driver announced he’d stay here for five minutes, we figured why not? Look at the crowd around her!
However, I didn’t do badly with close-ups… you’d think there was no-one else there. It is a tiny figure, but in fairness, not quite as small as I expected, given everyone had told me it would be small. It was commissioned by Carl Jacobsen, the head of the Carlsberg brewery, who was inspired by the ballet version of the Little Mermaid, which in turn was based on Hans Christian Anderson’s famous fairy tale. The statue has been there since 1913, but it has been the victim of vandalism over the years. In 1961, her hair was painted red and in 1964 and again in 1998, even more dramatically, her head was actually cut off. Good grief, what did Ariel do to deserve that?
We jumped back on the bus, and rather hilariously, the driver didn’t recognise us, although he’d seen us leave the bus about three minutes earlier, so we had to show our tickets to him, which everyone on the bus found quite entertaining!
We headed to the next stop for the ship…
… and went back on board. When we got back to the room, I discovered that my room key was again no longer working. Dang it, that thing is sensitive! It had been in the same pocket as a couple of lithium batteries for my camera that I’d run down today. I deliberately kept it away from my mobile phone, but obviously it doesn’t like those things either.
I grabbed a shower, as I was literally drenched in sweat. I hadn’t realised quite how humid it had been outside, but my goodness, I knew about it now!
We then headed down to guest relations to get my third new key this trip. While we were there, we enquired about the low bridge that I’d heard others talk about when leaving Copenhagen, but apparently we wouldn’t be going out until it tonight. We’d passed it on the way to Stockholm, and worst of all, last night or should I say early this morning, we’d gone under it at around 3:00am. Of course, we were awake with the helicopter drama just a little bit beforehand. If only we’d known.. oh well, we didn’t.
We made our way up to deck 14…
… and the Sky Lounge, where unfortunately they were showing the England v. Wales game in the European Football Championships. Not what I wanted. Thank goodness, we only had the final 10 minutes or so of the match to endure, and I passed the time snapping away…
England won by the way, 2 – 1, with a last gasp goal, and you should’ve heard the scream that went up. Not many Wales fans in here then…
The Little Mermaid was touring when we were there, so we didn't get to see her.
The bridge you're talking about is amazing! Not because of the architecture, but due to how close the ship comes to scraping the bottom. Passage needs to be timed with the tides just right. The DCL Captain assured us we weren't as close as it seemed for our vantage point (I would've said there was MAYBE a foot to spare).
The Little Mermaid was touring when we were there, so we didn't get to see her.
No way! Oh that's such a shame...
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The bridge you're talking about is amazing! Not because of the architecture, but due to how close the ship comes to scraping the bottom. Passage needs to be timed with the tides just right. The DCL Captain assured us we weren't as close as it seemed for our vantage point (I would've said there was MAYBE a foot to spare).
I'm so bummed we missed that, as it sounds like an amazing experience....
Great photos of the town and nice closeups of the Little Mermaid. Seems like you enjoyed the Sky Lounge again and more great photo ops. Too bad about your room key as that can happen easily and just aggravating!
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More great photos once you reached ground level. That's quite interesting about the development project for one of the town square. 
Perhaps, it will be on the scale of Disney Springs?
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It is a tiny figure, but in fairness, not quite as small as I expected, given everyone had told me it would be small. It was commissioned by Carl Jacobsen, the head of the Carlsberg brewery, who was inspired by the ballet version of the Little Mermaid, which in turn was based on Hans Christian Anderson’s famous fairy tale. The statue has been there since 1913, but it has been the victim of vandalism over the years. In 1961, her hair was painted red 
and in 1964 and again in 1998, even more dramatically, her head was actually cut off. Good grief, what did Ariel do to deserve that? 
Dang it, that thing is sensitive! 
It had been in the same pocket as a couple of lithium batteries for my camera that I’d run down today. I deliberately kept it away from my mobile phone, but obviously it doesn’t like those things either. 
Of course, we were awake with the helicopter drama just a little bit beforehand. If only we’d known.. oh well, we didn’t. 
Thank goodness, we only had the final 10 minutes or so of the match to endure, and I passed the time snapping away… 
Poor Ariel!!
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