Flying to Copenhagen was not easy. 12 hours waiting at Pudong airport, 12 hours from Shanghai to Milan, and 18 hours in Milan waiting for a follow-up flight. I flew from Milan to Munich and finally arrived in Copenhagen 48 hours after departure.
We took the train from the airport to the city. As soon as we left the train station, across the street was Qufuri Park. As soon as I looked up, I saw a Ferris wheel hanging under a blue sky and a roller coaster that suddenly whizzed by. There were cries of fear and joy, and everything turned into a fairy tale.
Fairytale airports have solid wood floors and luggage trays painted in this style.
Welcome to the jurisdiction of our king.
The train station is all open, no security, no ticket check, no exit. Self-discipline and integrity are the hallmarks of a civilized nation.
Built in 1911, Copenhagen's train station is a century old. Its steel-frame structure and red-brick house style are distinctive and special. The afternoon sunlight, through the European-style arched stained-glass windows, pours warmly on the orange floor.
The windy and dreary locomotive
I. The charm of the bicycle kingdom
When I first arrived in the city, I was attracted by this set of pictures at the first glance.
Copenhagen, known as the Kingdom of Bicycles, is open to anyone aged 2-100 in Denmark. Ten Danes and nine people have a bicycle. With 4.2 million bicycles in a country of more than 5 million people, it's a real "fairy tale". Cycling is a fashionable way for them to relax and exercise.
Beautiful flowers and fox backpacks
You can also see all kinds of bicycles on the street. Young dudes are usually riding stylish and lightweight dirt bikes. Girls usually have flower baskets on the front, and every now and then you can see a bouquet of flowers inside.
Bicycle parade and other traffic signals
The funniest thing is the bikes modified by older men and women. Buckets may be in front or behind. Buckets may be filled with cute babies, puppies, or even newly purchased toilets.
At every stop, Dad took the kids for a walk.
Dogs-only cars
Revamped Northeast donkey rides
Family cars for tourists to rent
Copenhagen has two kinds of bike lanes: one is a separate, dedicated lane with a blue plastic-covered pavement, free of motorized vehicles and traffic lights. The other is accompanied by motorized vehicles, but the motorized vehicles, bike lanes and sidewalks are separated in height order and do not interfere with each other.
Dedicated lanes
On the way, it's really a pleasure to watch beautiful Nordic dudes over 28 inches tall riding their bikes and wind past you (at speeds of up to 20 kilometers per hour).
Second, the colorful castles of princesses and princes
In Copenhagen, there are spires and colorful buildings everywhere. Walking through such streets, it's as if you could become a master in a fairy tale.
Street lamps in the fairy tale kingdom
The architectural style of Copenhagen was given by King Frederick (I forget the exact generations). It is said that he came back from studying in Eastern Europe, because he liked the houses there so much that he asked all the houses in Copenhagen to be built in this style from then on.
It was a tall man who could recognize the flag.
Mailbox Munda
It's hard to get visually tired of wandering around such a beautiful city, so we left the hotel at 8am and were able to wander around until 10pm before heading back.
On this day, we traveled from our hotel in the southwest corner of the city through City Hall to the University of Copenhagen Botanical Gardens in the north of the city. Hungry, lunch at Hagen University and walk to the Bohr Institute. Then from the Bohr Institute in the north, head south to Christiansborg.
Christiansborg
Christiansborg, the bedroom of King Christian VI, is an 18th-century European palace in the Rococo style. The castle palace was built in 1773-1775. destroyed by fire twice, in 1794 and 1884, the royal family moved out of Chateau Christian. After two rebuilds between 1907 and 1928, it is now the seat of the Royal Danish Parliament, as well as the Prime Minister's Office and the Supreme Court.
Images are from the internet, the front is currently under repair and it is not possible to get such perfect pictures.
Royal nobility's restaurant.
The platform where the royal family announces important events to the outside world.
Corridors
Celebrities on the palace tapestry, all highlighted.
On one occasion, according to our guide, her tourists were dropped off here and they happened upon the mayor of Copenhagen, who was bicycling to work. Dozens of tourists even blocked the path of the mayor's teacher, who patiently waited for all the tourists to get off before going to work. If you had that kind of courtesy, would you think the trip was worth it?
Amelinburg Palace
After visiting the old palace, you have to meet the emperor where the Empress now resides. Amelingborg Palace is the current residence of the current king, Queen Margaret II.
In the 18th century, King Frederick V planned a new city center. He chose this water-friendly site (100 meters away is the Baltic Bay) and asked the four nobles to build four identical palaces to form the current octagonal square.
How do you know if the current queen is actually in the palace? The flag is the big secret: when the queen is in the palace, the Danish flag on the roof is raised high. Unfortunately, the queen wasn't home the day we were there (empty white flagpole).
Some parts of Amitabha Palace are open for tours, but it was already 6 p.m. when we were there and we couldn't go back in. Coincidentally, the guards changed at the whole time.
Wei Bing Munda
These Royal Life Guards wore black or red drawstring tunics, blue pants and tall bearskin navy hats. It makes me want to laugh when I look at those guards, wearing heavy bearskin hats on a hot day. Their changing of the guard pace was also super cute to look at. Not a normal human walking pace, anyway.
The Baltic bay facing the palace.
When we left Copenhagen on the cruise ship, just as we were standing on the deck waving goodbye to this fairytale kingdom, a foreign uncle next to us kept talking to us by pointing to a bright yellow yacht on the bay. We later realized that the uncle told us, "Look, that's the Queen's royal yacht!"
The Little Mermaid
From the Amalienborg Palace, walk north along the Baltic harbor and you will see the bronze statue of the Little Mermaid. Look at this fish-tailed mermaid in the distance, sitting on a huge piece of granite, quietly elegant and relaxed; approach this bronze statue and you see a young girl with a sad, pensive look on her face.
Photo from Jane's Books App
Andersen's The Little Mermaid was willing to sacrifice herself for love, but the real-life prototype was almost Andersen himself.
Andersen had a childhood first love when he was young, and also madly pursued the girl next door vogt. but due to the disparity of family conditions, ultimately did not come together. Andersen 26 years old, vogt married a local rich son. From then on, Andersen was disillusioned by love and determined to die alone.
To sculpt the bronze statue, a series of love stories played out in real life. The bronze statue is said to have been modeled after the ballet heroine Ellen Peris. Slowly Erickson grew attached to Perris, and Perris had Erickson's flesh and blood. Erickson's fiancée, Eileen, was furious when she found out and Perris had to take the baby and marry someone else. Eileen told Perris' husband about Perris and Erickson, and Perris was abused by her husband and eventually died of schizophrenia.
Later, Erickson cast this bronze statue of a mermaid using his wife as a model. However, although Erickson changed the model, there was always another model in his heart that he couldn't touch. Only the peris family knows that this woman who lives by the sea, from facial expression to temperament, is clearly the incarnation of peris.
Every evening, a gray-haired old man appears on the Baltic Sea, and he and the mermaids, especially peris, who misses him terribly, look at the sea side by side.
Love always exists in fairy tales and reality, but it always brings a little sadness.
Gefion Large Fountain
In Long Beach Park, there is not only the famous Little Mermaid, but also the famous Geffion Fountain.
Goddess's halo
It is said that Gefion, the goddess of Norse mythology, never married, but she had four sons with Heracles. Legend has it that in ancient Sweden there was a king named Golf, who promised Gefion that she could dig a plot of land out of Sweden, but as much as she could for a limited time.
So the goddess turned her four sons into four oxen and dug a large piece of land from Sweden with a plow and moved it to the sea. After that, Sweden was left with a Lake Venan, and the land that was dug up was the island of Zealand, where Copenhagen now stands.
An old church near Long Body Park
Newport
After a stormy day, I was finally able to sit down for a quiet meal. At 8 p.m., I watched the sun set slowly over Newport, its afterglow scattered over colorful rooftops and the flowing river, serene and still.
The gray and blue house on the left is the oldest house, more than 500 years old.
Newport is a man-made canal. The old houses along the river are colorful. The sunny side is now pedestrianized and the old Seaman's Bar has been replaced by a pleasing restaurant. Hans Christian Andersen's home is on the far right.
Life jackets are actually stacked on the right wall.
3. Munchkins, the future and hope of the country.
It is said that children are the future of the country. In the happiest country in the world, they drink free milk, go to free school and do what they love. They are all sunny and have a happy childhood.
The Nordic countries' approach to childbearing is usually to have either no children or a bunch of them. Mothers can take up to two years of maternity leave, with full pay for the first year and 80% of salary for the second. Usually if there is a plan to have two or three children, it's just a good idea to keep having them at this time. Anyway, the salary will not be less (Chinese nannies have only envy and jealousy).
They not only have long maternity leave, but more importantly, a handsome father. Looking at the handsome old man walking with a baby, I do not know how many streets she won, compared to the domestic old man old woman walking with a baby street.
Why are Scandinavian men so family oriented? Simply because the welfare in these countries is so good and women are so independent that they don't need to rely on men for a long term meal ticket, it's already done for them from birth to death.
So when a woman says she'll marry you, the man is so grateful and willing to take care of the home and children with all his physical strength. It is said that a convenient solution for men who can't marry a local woman these days is to go to Southeast Asia and buy a wife to go back and live with, or at least have a foot warmer for the long winter nights.
This is a very pretty picture
Love the doll's earrings.
The sand on the road is a child's world.
The nanny enjoying her sun bath