Sunday, August 9, 2015

Harbor Tour around Copenhagen


Fountain in square near Harbor.  Military Headquarters (a.k.a. Denmark's Pentagon) in the background.




Denmark's Pentagon. 


Ye Old Stock Exchange

Spire is 3 dragon's tails winding together.  Three dragons are Denmark, Sweden and Norway. King Christian IV wanted these 3 countries to unite and eventually become one country.



Copenhagen Architecture School and Museum

Copenhagen's old port.
Noma is in this building first and second level on the far left.



Copenhagen's School of Music and Dance,



Harbor living



These apartments are where the navy kept their battleships for sneak attacks on Copenhagen and why Sweden and Norway were not able to take Denmark.


Denmark's battleships



Neat sculptures depicting immigrants coming for save haven in Copenhagen.


Port for only the Crown on the right and all others are to use the port on the left. 

Opera house gifted to Copenhagen from Maersk the Danish shipping company headquartered in Copenhagen.  The city cannot maintain it so events have been cancelled and its become a sort of white elephant.


House boat


New Haven


Library.  Danish call it the Diamond building because of all the reflective glass.

Old prison turned apartments. The shutters were the metal doors that were the windows with two small barred window for the prisoners to look out of.

New walking/biking bridge being constructed.
Architect/Engineer who is living inside this dome to prove biosphere living is possible.  It is also a performance art piece in that he is seeing/showing how humans and nature can coincide and live together in a mutually beneficial relationship.


Hotel we looked at staying in.  It is a houseboat turned hotel.  Rooms with a view.  Not the best amenities though.  We decided we preferred having amenities over a view and a different living experience.  Maybe someday...a houseboat would be awesome to stay on for a week.

The city of Copenhagen is building a tunnel under the ocean to mainland Denmark.  There is already a tunnel under the ocean connecting Sweden and Copenhagen.  We did not go to Sweden but we could've taken a car or ferry and arrived in Sweden in 20 minutes. 

Going under a bridge was careful work for the boat's driver.





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