Denmark and Sweden

For our last group trip, we flew to Copenhagen. The first night we were there, we went to Tivoli Gardens. Tivoli is an amusement park in the centre of Copenhagen. It's normally closed at this time of the year, but was open tonight for a Steve Raich concert, the minimalist composer, so we went. The music was... well... we got to see Tivoli, that's the important thing.



The next morning, we took the train to Louisiana (the modern art museum, not the state). The art was so-so, but the setting was really great. It was right by the sea, and had a lot of great art outdoors.







We continued north up the Danish coast to Helsingør. It has Kronborg Castle on which Shakespeare based Hamlet. We also had a really great lunch with a lot of traditional Danish food... like herring.








Then we took the ferry to Helsingborg, Sweden and walked around there for a bit. Then we took the train to Lund. Lund has a university, so this is us outside the law faculty.

For dinner we went to Malmö. Malmö seemed pretty happening. We went to a restaurant called with Moosehead, which actually had a real Canadian Moosehead beer sign on the outside. Unfortunately they didn't actually have the beer. But they did have an actual moose burger.







We spent the next day walking around Copenhagen. We went to Strøget, the world's longest pedestrian street. Then we headed over to see the little mermaid statue. On the way, we ran into Amalienborg Palace and the changing of the guard.





On the way back, we went to Kastallet, a pentagram-shaped fort which is still used by the Danish military. Then we had coffee in Illium, a department store back on the Strøget, and watched the Danish people go by.