Copenhagen, Denmark is awesome!

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I flew to Copenhagen on Friday to visit with a customer. On the taxi ride to the office, I quickly fell in love with the city. The variety of architecture was just stunning! There are so many more colors and variety of buildings compared to Aberdeen. My hotel reservatation was right the part of the city center called "the Square", which was also the name of my hotel.
View Larger Map Fit me just perfect. The room was very modern and European, for lack of a better term. I do have to appoligize for the pictures. Dena's away on her own little vacation with a friend of her's, and they took the Sony digital camera to Nice, France, so I was trying to do my best with my camera phone. No zoom, no auto-focus, no flash, and I had to stop breathing as I snapped the pictures, so they wouldn't come out fuzzy. The pictures are better than my last phone, but still not up to par with my 5 year old Sony digital camera.

The first couple pictures (other than the one of me) were snapped from my hotel room window. I then took a little walk down one of the walk streets leading away from the Square. Walk streets are a bit like a mall in the states, with shops and food on both sides, and about the same width, except that you are outside, and when it's raining you get wet. I stepped into a toy store after passing a huge Lego window display. I guess it was a bit of habit from when I was younger. They now have remote controlled and robotic Lego kits. Hmm, seems the Legos have grown up too. The good thing is, I no longer have to wait for my birthday or Christmas to get a set. Luckily, I didn't have a large suitcase along, so I left the store and continued walking.

I walked for 8-10 blocks before finally stopping at a cafe for supper. I had a wonderful open-faced smoked tuna sandwich with fresh greens and scrammbled eggs on top. The sun came out as I was eating, and some of the pictures were taken on the way back. I liked all the statues and fountains in just a small area of town. A few other things that stood out during my visit were the wind turbines that were along the shore and easily seen from the customer's office. I really like that some countries are moving forward on clean energy generation. Wind energy is growing in the US also, but we are trailing the world, and will hopefully have some big offshore wind farms going up soon offshore Texas and somewhere on the east coast of the US. It was also really great to see Copenhagen having a fairly massive public transportantion system. I saw buses and trains, along with plenty of taxis. What really shocked me was how many bicycles there were. It was like I was on some massive college campus. There were bikes everywhere, and lot of places to park them, AND lot of people of all ages riding them. When I returned to the airport to fly back home, there was a Lego display for Vestas wind turbines. I was a Lego Maniac when I was younger, so it was expecially appealing to me having both interests.

I was only in Copenhagen for one afternoon/evening, but I sure enjoyed it, and hope I have reason to spend more time there.