Copenhagen- Lars and Julie
No luck on Dick feeling better. His stomach was not happy and it soon became
clear that he needed to take the day off and sleep close to a bathroom. Patti was sad, because it is always more fun
with him….and he is such a rock in terms of navigating places. After tucking him in and getting him all of the
supplies that were available, Patti headed off to meet another of her dad’s
cousin’s sons, Lars, and his partner, Julie.
Another guy that we had had the chance to meet on SKPYE before coming to
Europe.
Patti fumbled her way around the maps, and iPhone apps and
eventually found her way to the bus stop that was the chosen meeting spot to
see Lars and Julie. She arrived safely
and even a bit early. She is pretty sure
that she should never quit her job to become a navigator, but she did it.
They then spent the whole afternoon in a private tour of
many of the wonderful buildings in old Copenhagen. Julie and Lars pooled their
knowledge to try to explain beautiful and sometimes just perplexing things to
Patti. They passed several herds of tourists going around in a group of 40
following a guide. Patti was thrilled to
have a very private tour by two Danish Natives.
Yah! They saw museums, The
Parliament Building, statues…and wonderfully interesting old, narrow
streets. The city was founded around 800
years ago. It is a great mixture of the
very old and the very new.
Lunch was at a famous smorbro restaurant called Kanal
Caféen. This is a very old traditional place to eat. You ordered from along list of dishes that
they came dressed up and looking kind of like Danish Tappas (according to
Lars). We had a couple of types of Herring, some beef Tartar (raw), pork,
pickles, cabbage, something called a Vet’s midnight snack that had liver
pate. We finally had to stop before we
got to the cheese course. Lars also had
Patti try a shot of schnapps with which to marinate the herring….not really her
style. Yipes! They waddled away having eaten a great
deal. Yum. A nice experience, and one that was good to
have with a guide.
There was a stop at one of the H.C. statues that allowed
Patti the chance to get her photo taken.
He is really everywhere around here. She so enjoyed being in the city where Andersen did most of his work.
Then they walked on a few blocks away to Tivoli Gardens, one
of the world’s oldest amusement parks.
Smaller, of course than Disney and some of the huge parks, it was still
quite charming. It was very special to
go through it with Lars, because he had the experience between the ages of 7-16
to be part of an elite group called the Tivoli Boys' Guard. This was a band of around 100 boys would
performed at Tivoli Gardens 2-3 times/week, plus practices a couple of
times. They not only did all of these
performances, they also got to go on tour, including going to Florida for
Disney’s Epcott Center grand opening in 1982.
The tour was very sweet and special, with tales of the places that he
and his friends would go hang out between sets, and showing us the wonders of
the park.
About 4:00, Patti knew it was time to get back to see how
Dick was doing. He had truly slept all
day, and struggled through the evening still not feeling well. He was able to
get up and take a shower at about 9, and then realized that it was 9 at night and
not the next morning. The way the sun
stays out here until after 10:30 can mess with you, especially if you spent all
day in bed. He is hopeful that he will
be feeling well enough to join back in with the fun tomorrow. But today was not his time to be out and
about.
Our cell phone is now fully functional thanks to Annette,
and with a bit of help from Lars. Patti
is still not a champ at texting with the old style phones, but is getting
better all of the time, especially now that it is set to text in English. God bless technology as it keeps us
connected.
“Everything
you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you
touch.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
― Hans Christian Andersen
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