20 Thousand Steps Worth of Culture

The next morning we woke up at 8:00 and made ourselves ready for the day. After a quick research, we found a bakery around 10 minutes from our hotel, yet again. We decided that was a good distance for a morning stroll and we had it straight to it after buying ourselves some coffee in the lobby. The bakery had some cheese rolls and blueberry buns for us, which we gladly took into the Metro. We activated our Copenhagen Card before entering the M3, which was the circle line of Copenhagen. Rather convenient this. As it was still rather early and most of the attractions weren't open before 10am, we took the M3 to one of the parks north of the SMK, and picnicked there for half an hour. It was a lazy start to the day, and we loved it. When it was time we made our way to the SMK which is the State Museum of Art. We would have never paid the 20€ entrance fee if it wasn't included in the Copenhagen Card, but as it was included we thought why not? So we looked at random naked statues of Michelangelo, and immediately found a running gag: "A small penis in the morning..." There were plenty of those around. We didn't spend too much time in the SMK, as we both were neither big fans of small penises nor the Modern Art that was rather offensive in our eyes. As we left we had to discover that it was raining. This hasn't been in the weather forecast and we were dressed rather lightly with no one of us having either a rain jacket nor an umbrella with us. This was rather shitty. We hoped that the clouds would disappear fast and made our way across the street to the Rosenborg Slot. It was a quite cute castle with lovely greens around and a pond with carps in it. They were swimming at the edges and I could pet them. They felt rather slimy and icky. As the rain got heavier, we searched for the entrance and were infuriated by the long queue in front of it. No way we would wait in the rain to visit the castle and see its interior which we didn't fancy anyway. Instead, we half ran as quickly as possible to the nearest Metro station and made our way back to the hotel to change your clothes into something more weather appropriate. Afterwards we took the bus to the next Art Gallery: the Cisternerne. It was an old underground cistern which was really vibey and atmospheric. It was cool. As the weather was great again when we arrived back outside, we decided to go on the Canal tour around Copenhagen to see the streets and buildings from the water. So we drove to the metro station " Gammelstrand" (hilarious name if you ask me), and got our tickets (which were included as well) for the ride at 3 pm. We still had a little bit of time, so we got a coffee at one of the many coffee carts around the city (I got a chai which was rather nice) and sat down watching the many tourists on their way to buying souvenirs or looking at the statues around. 3:00 p.m. came and we jumped onto the boat for the canal tour which was a pleasant break for our feet. I didn't hear that much about Copenhagen as we had very noisy Austrians sitting right behind us. I got so bad that I had to turn around shutting them down or else I would have pushed them over the railing. I still missed a lot of history that was told us. And the rest wasn't interesting enough to memorize. Anyway, after we finished the tour, we trailed off to find the Lego store, as Gigi was planning on customizing her own Lego figurine. We came across a cart selling filled churros and we got ourselves some as a treat. It was really nice. I usually am not a big fan of churros as I find them rather hard and not really tasty. But having it filled with Nutella and it's being bigger and therefore the dough being softer inside, it was the perfect combination of Sweet desert and horror for my jacket, as the Nutella spilled out the churro and stained it. The taste was kind of worth it, though. Putting " get rid of the stain" on my to-do list for later being back at the hotel, we went into Lego store. There I found a McLaren F1 car that I couldn't resist buying as well as a small Hermione figurine for a keychain. I would have never guessed my first souvenirs would be made of Lego. But then again we were in Denmark. Gigi finally did not make her own Lego figurine as we would have to make an appointment for that in another Lego store. So she settled on just getting some Lego for her grandchild.
Speaking of children, it was time to give our inner children something to do, so we made our way to the Museum of Illusions, which was quite near to the Lego store. There we learned something about various illusion techniques as well as had fun taking some weird pictures of us in the most random places.
Finally, it was time to get something to eat, however everything was rather expensive in the city. We eventually settled on an Asian noodle box and ate it in front of the city hall that was illuminated quite lovely by the sunset. After our tummies were satisfied, we took the Metro to the Marmorkirken, which is an absolutely stunning old church made of marble. It reminded the both of us of the St. Paul's cathedral in London, but it was even nicer. I couldn't really take my eyes off it, it was just so amazing! The Amalienborg Slot right down the street was rather sobering looking as it basically was just four big buildings surrounding a plaza. There were soldiers with weird hats in front of it, though. Anyway, nothing really impressive after Marmorkirken. And that was it for the day. We just had to jump on the next Metro and get off at the right station to fall back into our beds. Enough walking for today.Okumaya devam et