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Amsterdam to Copenhagen – Day Fourteen

Saturday September 14 – Our last morning in Amsterdam. We walk down to catch the train to Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport.

Early morning Amsterdam.
Gouden Uur / Golden Hour
Small carbon footprint.
Bye Amsterdam it’s been fun.
Flying over Flevoland. It’s the Netherlands newest province. The land from the coast to the channel beyond has been reclaimed from 1957 – thanks Wikipedia.
We literally had the best airline meal we ever had on our SAS flight. It was cured Salmon gravlax with a dill potato salad. It was amazing. We didn’t have the foresight to photograph it, but these are the accompanying chocolates. These weren’t too shabby either.

Hij Hij Copenhagen

Copenhagen isn’t shabby either.

Us at Nyhavn.
Nyhavn is in central Copenhagen and is very Hans Christian Anderson. Literally he lived at No.67.
Definitely not shabby
On our walk to see the Little Mermaid. We stumbled onto Amalienborg Palace, it turns out it’s at the end of our street from our hotel.
Man on a horse.
Grandma got a free pass. This Chappy is a Royal Life Guard. Unlike the English one’s that stay still, these guys do a little march back & forth now & then. We were thinking that they were purely ceremonial, but one guy got a message through his earpiece to tell a tourist who got too close to move on.
At the end of the central axis through the palace is Frederick’s Kirke. It was built between 1749-1894.
Nice leadlight in the dome of the narthex or antechamber of the church.

We leave the church and head back to the waterfront to hunt down the mermaid statue.

The Opera House designed by Henning Larsen Architects.
Amager Bakke by BIG architects. It’s part/very clever/clean incinerator, and part-ski slope.
Found her.
Pretty as a picture but looks English? The English Church is an Anglican church nearby to the Mermaid statue. It’s beside a nice park & the Citadel. It’s neo-gothic & built in the mid-1880s so feels a bit familiar.
The English Church & the Citadel. The Citadel is an old fort, but currently a barracks & park.
No mucking around at the Citadel.

We push onto Kongens Have/King’s Garden.

Cute houses
Kongen Have is very pleasant.
Rosenborg Castle is next door
We end the day back in Nyhavn

Walked 16.5km / 23558 steps

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