👀Another Blast from the Past - Serenade Baltics August 19, 2018🚢

[jeanneful]

Did Laura finish her red sweater? Loving the review!

[Ginlyn]

14 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

August 17, 2020 - Lunch and Dinner

 

Headed over to Nyhaven. It's basically about 40 individual outdoor cafe's

 

We went with the traditional Smorrebord for lunch.

It's not Smorgasbord by any means. It is an open faced sandwich made with heavy dark bread and some type of protein.

Today I had shrimp, I think. I wasn't a fan. But it was a nice setting, and I enjoyed several Carlsberg beers.

 

East side of the canal

 

West side. This is the typical picture of Copenahagen

Most of the cafe's are on this side

 

Waiting on food, enjoying the day

 

Back to the hotel for a nap. 

That's the downside to flying to Europe from US. Jetlag

We'll come back for dinner, the pizza looked good

 

 

We were on a Baltic cruise this time last year - left from Amsterdam on the Brilliance.  We were supposed to do our first TA this fall but sadly....... 😕.  We did to the L & S to the Odyssey TA for 2021 🤞. 

[John&LaLa]

1 hour ago, jeanneful said:

Did Laura finish her red sweater? Loving the review!

 

I believe it was a blanket for our son. UGA  graduate.  Interestingly enough, she's now working on a replacement because she wasn't happy with how it turned out. 

[njkruzer]

Copenhagen at night looking at Tivoli from our hotel room.

[bobmacliberty]

4 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

3am🤔

I thought you retired

Go back to bed

Oh yeah, I'm rarely up before 7:30am now...usually 8am or later. 😁  I was talking about being on a plane flying to Europe when landing in the morning Europe time, but it's still middle of the night Eastern time when they serve breakfast on the plane. 

[John&LaLa]

20 minutes ago, bobmacliberty said:

Oh yeah, I'm rarely up before 7:30am now...usually 8am or later. 😁  I was talking about being on a plane flying to Europe when landing in the morning Europe time, but it's still middle of the night Eastern time when they serve breakfast on the plane. 

 

Gotcha, apologies

[John&LaLa]

39 minutes ago, njkruzer said:

Copenhagen at night looking at Tivoli from our hotel room.

 

I have some great Nyhaven night shots from the Bethel

[Sunshine3601]

Love seeing these photos and excited for me since we missed our baltic cruise 2 weeks ago.   I think we were booked for Scandic Palace because it was in close walking distance to Tivoli, the train station, the canal and other walkable sightseeing things.     

[John&LaLa]

48 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said:

Love seeing these photos and excited for me since we missed our baltic cruise 2 weeks ago.   I think we were booked for Scandic Palace because it was in close walking distance to Tivoli, the train station, the canal and other walkable sightseeing things.     

 

I'll have a lot of Copenhagen later tonight.

Watching Big Brother now

[John&LaLa]

August 18, 2018 - Oh what a beautiful morning

 

Up until now, I've been compressing pictures to document size. Let's see how they do full size. CC software automatically shrinks them to some extent

 

Big race is tomorrow

 

Bleachers for the finish line

 

 

Yesterday was Pride

 

nice shot of the moon

 

I really like our 'beach'

 

A few folks in the water for a morning swim

 

You can actually see the ships from our balcony. Serenade will be here tomorrow

 

Let's head over to the canal and catch our boat tour

[John&LaLa]

FYI, turns out CC software did a nice job scaling the above pics down to around 200k, so I'm not going to compress them anymore.  I'll also try and limit each post to around 10 pictures or less

Edited August 27, 2020 by John&LaLa

[John&LaLa]

Nyhaven Canal

 

Top of the canal looking towards the harbor. Our boat in the bottom left. We wanted an open top

 

 

Good price, around $8

 

Not 100% sure what this is

 

Living the Viking Life

 

 

We're told this takes around an hour. Some of these canal boats work like the HOHO busses. Ours is just a tour

[John&LaLa]

The Playhouse. I think some Pride activities were held here. It was at the end of our little beach

 

Our hotel as seen from the harbor

 

The Opera House. We're told Red Bull uses it for cliff diving competitions off the roof

 

I guess the Danish Navy had a few subs

 

Museum ship Peder Skram

 

If this clock is right, I'm guessing it's around 10:30 am

 

I think this is a houseboat now. Pretty cool.

 

Before we get to far along, here is the area we will be touring.

Nyhaven is where it says Hotel Bethel, the Little Mermaid is Lille at the top right

Then back to Freetown canal, thru the canal by Dansk Center then back to Nyhaven

 

Lots of low bridges

[John&LaLa]

Our tour guide was pretty good

 

Ships at the Ocean Terminals

 

Seaborn Ovation at the Quayside Pier. Google Maps shows a Radiance ship tied up here recently. Very conveniently located to the city center

 

The backside of the Little Mermaid. We won't see her front until we come back next week and do the HOHO

 

No social distancing here. Not that we even knew what that meant two years ago

 

The Royal Pavilions. This is where the Royal family waits to board their yacht. It wasn't here this week

 

A schooner, but no bar

 

Nice little boat. We'll get up close and personal with her this afternoon

 

The dome of Frederick's Church

[John&LaLa]

 

Kayaking is very popular in the summer

 

Our sponsor for tomorrow's festivities

 

 

The always lovely LaLa

 

Entrance to Nyhaven. The bridge on the left is a swing bridge. Turns out when they built it, it didn't meet in the middle, so they had to redesign it. 

 

Underneath the bridge

 

The tower of the Church of our Savior. You can't take this picture until you go under the bridge. Many people wait to long and end up with a picture of a tree instead.

 

Our guide telling us about the tree

 

The most famous tree in Copenhagen, according to it's FB page

 

https://www.facebook.com/The-most-famous-tree-in-Copenhagen

[John&LaLa]

Towers everywhere you look

 

 

 

Some are smaller than others

 

Lots of mixing old and new. The Royal Library

 

Government Offices, go figure

 

Danish Architecture Center, AKA the Minecraft Building

 

Here is another map of the area we are in now

Edited August 27, 2020 by John&LaLa

[John&LaLa]

Next time we are here, I want to rent one of these. So much fun

 

As I recall this is the oldest surviving bridge in Copenhagen

 

The crown motif is everywhere

 

 

Spire of the Borsen (former stock exchange)

 

It's either crocodiles or dragons depending on who you ask

 

 

Looks like we've been gone 45 minutes. Almost over

Edited August 27, 2020 by John&LaLa

[John&LaLa]

 

 

Christiansborg Palace

 

Another Schooner 

 

Locals enjoying Saturday

 

This might be a bar

 

Back to Nyhaven

 

Hans Christian Andersons house?

 

Hotel Bethel

 

71 Nyhaven luxury hotel

 

This might be HCR's house. The orange one

 

Let's go find a beer

Edited August 27, 2020 by John&LaLa

[Roger88]

Thank you so much for sharing these photos from Saint Petersburg. Last time I was visiting it was like almost a decade ago. So much has changed since then. I remember the cruise boats were terrible, apparently they got new ones. Its always nice going around Saint P. especially when the weather.. especially if you choose to explore it through the canals. Its like a bigger version of Venice 

[John&LaLa]

2 minutes ago, Roger88 said:

Thank you so much for sharing these photos from Saint Petersburg. Last time I was visiting it was like almost a decade ago. So much has changed since then. I remember the cruise boats were terrible, apparently they got new ones. Its always nice going around Saint P. especially when the weather.. especially if you choose to explore it through the canals. Its like a bigger version of Venice 

 

We're still in Copenhagen. St Pete is still 4-5 days away

[John&LaLa]

Hey, it's me. Laura actually used the DSLR

 

Up close and personal with Ariel. And yes, her nipples are very shiny. There is also one of these at CPH

We bought The Little Mermaid book for our Grandaughter

 

Back at Amaliehaven, I understand they have crepes around here

 

 

Another shot of the Opera House

 

i found the Crepe Bikes

 

[John&LaLa]

Nothing better than a banana Nutella crepe.

 

Chocolate Hazlenut goodness

 

Gonna be a good day

 

Our yacht from earlier

 

Dig in, John

 

Her name is Forever One

 

Wasn't I looking for a beer?

[John&LaLa]

Might as well hang out at the Admiral's outdoor cafe

 

I feel bad for Laura, Beringers is hard to come by in Europe. Go figure

She sampled a couple rose's

 

Tuborg for me. Just like the vikings from this morning

 

The Ugly Duckling

 

Lots of boats in and out

 

 

Did I mention how popular bike's are up here

 

2nd beer almost gone. Should probably head back to hotel. I think we ate a meat and cheese plate

 

We were sitting under the white umbrellas on the right

 

and there's are place

 

[John&LaLa]

I noticed a little girl with the swan from earlier once we got in our room. To cute

 

There was also a wedding party gathering for a boat ride. Not sure they liked there picture taken. Apologies

 

Decided to go back down and get the swan up close.

This is when I finally noticed the hotel carpet is a map of the area.

I like it

 

Friend swan

 

 

This handsome boy looks like our friend Wellie. Not really, just a shout out to JC

 

Saw a pizza truck, but the prices look the same as the cafe's on the canal, so we passed

 

 

Watching me like a hawk

 

Well that's about it for our day in Copenhagen. 

Big day tomorrow. Good night

[bobmacliberty]

7 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

Next time we are here, I want to rent one of these. So much fun

 

That Pleasure building that you weren't 100% sure about?...I think you can rent one there. 😉