Electricity:
It's so friendly!
This bolt was next to my head in the bed in my hotel room:
I still have two eyes, so I guess I didn't toss and turn during the night.
This is Nyhavn, the picturesque street full of restaurants at prices around 150% of what you'd normally expect to pay if you weren't in a tourist trap:
As you can imagine, Nyhavn is on all the postcards and "visit Copenhagen" travel sites. However, what they don't show you is what's on the other side of the canal:
Hmm, not quite as picturesque...
The first time I visited Copenhagen, which was about 8 years ago I think, the picturesque main square, Kongens Nytorv, was a messy construction site as they built a new metro. Today, though:
It's a messy construction site as they build a new metro.
Following the PhD defence and consequent celebrations, I and the other external committee member, Prof. Ulrike Spierling, got away from it all on a boat trip round Copenhagen's canals. Here's the famous Little Mermaid statue:
Not quite as in-the-middle-of-the-harbour as most visitors imagine it to be...
One of these days, I'm going to climb up that spiral staircase to the top of that church:
I may need an air ambulance to get down afterwards, of course.
I don't recall seeing this building on any of my previous trips to Copenhagen:
It's pretty spectacular, especially in the light of the setting sun. I wonder what they were planning on screwing it into?
Finally, here's a shot of the bridge of the boat we were in:
I'm not persuaded that you need a SatNav to get around Copenhagen's limited canal system, but hey, better to be safe than sorry.