Travel-World Photography
This folder includes pictures famous sights in Copenhagen: The Tivoli entertainment park, "Nyhavn" - or "New Harbour", where a lot of restaurants are located, as well as a boat trip on the waterways to look at old and new buildings.
Copnhagen Part 2
Entrance to the "Tivoli"
Two smiling guards at the gate
Decorated for Christmas
A modern Christmas tree
Decorations inside a shop
An Arabian Palace
The trolley way at the amusement park
"Live your life - forget your age" - an appeal to everybody to have a bit of fun
Outsized flower decorations
The Tycho Brahe Planetarium
An optical instrument used by Brahe to measure angular distances
The ceiling in the planetarium
Inside the richly decorated Holmens Church
A big room filled with sarcophagus
The top sf the sarcophagus of Admiral Richelieu (1852-1952, a long life)
Sarcophagus the sea captain Peter Wessel, who got the nick name Tordenskiold - "Thunder Shield"
The old anchor - symbol of "Nyhavn" - the "new harbor", now an entertainment district
Old sailing cutters in the inner harbor
Similar boats on the other side of the narrow channel
Streamers hanging down on a building facade - for what purpose?
Restaurants and small shops
Most houses today are small, cosy restaurants
Another restaurant
Squeezed in-between
Sunny Side restaurant
Cape Horn restaurant
We enjoyed a good lunch, but the server had not even heard of Cape Horn
Shopping warm clothes - this was just before Christmas
Taking a trip on a sight-seeing boat
Some low bridges
A two-level boathouse
Boathouses at anchor
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The Amalienborg Church seen from the water
Old trading houses in the old harbor
Modern buildings in a new district
Apartment houses
The Marriott Hotel
The Copenhagen Opera House
Business building with a huge atrium
Towards the end of the day, lunch in a very nice restaurant
Together with friends from my university days