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National Museum

Sunday June 22the was Museums day with Fleur.
We started with the National Museum.
The website for all information, but here are the most important things:
– the Museum is located Ny Vestergade 10, 1471 Copenhagen K
It is near Rådhuspladsen for the transports, and the street faces the Glyptotek, a building hard to miss. The Museum itself is a bit in a setback so one can’t really see it before being in front of it.
– the admission is free for everyone everyday for the permanent exhibition.
– the Museum is closed on Mondays, and open Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m to 4.30 p.m.
– one has to leave bags (unless it is a small one) in lockers, the Museum’s website says to bring DKK 10 as a deposit but it was actually free.

The rest in pictures.

“Hair in the form of braided locks was also sacrificed in the bogs. Sometimes several plaits were tied together. These Deposits can be seen as both small and large sacrifices.
Small, because the hair was easily available, large, because one gave away the most beautiful thing one had.”

Lunch break.

Cooking food, brewing beer, making candles.

Cheerful decoration.

The Chariot of the Sun.

Gundestrup Cauldron.

Deer’s head with a crucifix between the antlers, the symbol of Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters.

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Den Blå Planet

Den Blå Planet is the new aquarium that opened last march in Kastrup (close suburb of Copenhagen), one (the?) of the biggest in Northern Europe.

Taste the different seas

Grumpy fish is grumpy.

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Christiania 42 years

Christiania celebrated its 42 years that weekend, and there were concerts all over the place, and the lake’s shores were covered with young, beer in hand.
The slogan of the weekend was “Fed musik. Billig Bar. Lækker mad.” (“Good music. Cheap bar. Delicious food.”).

To know more about Christiania, I already talked about it here.

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Botanical Garden

Another nice and exotic place in the heart of Copenhagen: the Botanical Garden.

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Victoire’s 2-day visit in Copenhagen

Victoire arrived in Copenhagen Saturday night for two days before making a detour Aalborg and then flying to Bergen (Norway).
Since it was Saturday night, we had to get out! She knew two nice bars in Nørrebro.

The first one, the Kattens :
Fælledvej 12, 2200 København
t was still pretty quiet when we arrived and then bar get filled. There are only large tables so all the small groups stick to each other. You can play the DJ through an electronic jukebox and the atmosphere is quite nice.
Obviously, the disposition leads people to “get to know each other”. We came across a group of boys, not too drunk yet, who spoke to us successively in Danish, English, French. My heart still broke when one of them gave “gangsta’s going.” They wanted us to play a game where you must guess I don’t realy know what number, with your fingers. We dodged it.
Unfortunately the bar is quite small, and smoking is allowed, so it became very hard for me when more than two people close by began to smoke. After a while it was my eyes that made me realize that it was no longer possible.

We kept on with the Valhalla :
Blågårdsgade 21, 2200 København N
Smoking allowed too, but much more bearable fom the sofas in the back where we slumped. And I think also even in the middle of the bar, because the tables are further apart and the area much larger area.
I’m a little disappointed that many bars are smokers here, because I remember the Moose last year, impossible for me to just stay there, when he has the reputation of being one of the coolest bars in the city.
But anyway Valhalla was a good compromise, I will go back!

The next day, Tivoli. She did not know it because, despite the desire to see it, the price refrained her. But since I have my card that allows me to get someone in, it was an opportunity!