Writing From my Garret

Today we awoke to thunder and rain at 6 am.   By 9 we had eaten a lovely breakfast at our little hotel and I was forced to admit that the scratchy feeling in the back of my throat from the last two days meant I was coming down with a cold.  Dang it!  We always use disinfecting wipes whenever we fly, but apparently I touched some contaminated doorknob, handrail, elevator button or simply walked too close to someone who had coughed......and now I am that someone.   I hope none of the others comes down with it, too.

The rain ended by 10, so the four of us decided to venture out to see some of the sights of Copenhagen.  We wandered down some of the Stroget, a pedestrian shopping mall with the likes of Hermes and Cartier--fortunately still closed on a Sunday morning or I might have been tempted to check out a certain scarf in the former I had seen.  Not too far from that we found a Canal Tour which took us sightseeing from the water, and the sun even started to peek through the clouds a little.  Turns out our hotel is on a canal on the tour, along with the lowest bridge on the tour, about 2" above the heads of the passengers.

This is the street of our hotel

The Little Mermaid from the backside

Our next adventure was getting lost, going the wrong way on the right bus.  So we got ourselves off and turned around and headed to the Tycho Brahe Planetarium.  If you stumbled over that pronunciation, don't worry; it's t-YOU-ko bra-ah.   You can imagine how we mangle the rest of the words when trying to get to Nytorv (NEW-toe) or Kongensgade (Kongs-ha) and are cheerfully corrected by the Danes.  The day was shaping up pretty nicely, and we enjoyed some of the birds by the lake and the willows on the bank next to the planetarium.

By then I was fading fast, and having a dinner meeting with friends of my cousin at 7, we decided to head back to the hotel and grab a quick little lunch and a couple of beers from the Cheap Beer Kiosk across the street and some rest at the hotel.  I awoke two hours later to...more thunder and rain.  

Our cute little hotel is situated on a very busy corner, so I asked for a quiet room at the back.  It's pretty tiny, but it covers the bases.  Our view, such as it is, is the courtyard car park, but we still have some interesting architecture.

It's now just after 6 and time to head out for dinner, so I'm going to wake Tom, and will write more later.