It went too quickly....

....our weekend away just flew by. Kristian arrived home from his exam Saturday at noon to pick me up. We were on our way to Copenhagen to explore the sights and sounds for 24 hours!

It was a beautiful day with clear blue skies. It was -1 degrees and I could feel the nip in the air! I think the sentence that I have repeated the most in the last 24hours has been.... "Oh it´s sooo cold!"

We decided to take the coast road down to Copenhagen instead of the motorway and we decided to make a few stops along the way.

Our first stop was Rungsted Kyst. One of our favourite places in summer. We parked the car and went a quick walk around the harbour. It was sooo beautiful. It even put me in the mood for summer! (yes me who loves autumn and winter!!)

From there we drove a little further down the coast and stopped to take some pictures of trees. We love trees! Kristian went mad with his camera and I went mad with mine. It was so much fun taking pictures together. (It reminded me of all the times that I went out with my dad and took photos. I was about 12 or 13 and we would go to different parks with our cameras and take loads of pictures. Do you remember that dad? Only difference being that back then I had a really good camera!!haha)

We drove a little further and wandered through the nature....

There was all sorts of nature to see........

haha....yes there was the nude type of nature to see too! (Welcome to Danish culture!!) Must say, I take my hat off to them. The older folks go swimming all winter long - in the sea! It was -1!!! We honestly took this photo yesterday, it´s no joke! They are crazy but brave!

Finally we had had enough nature, it was time to drive into the city. We arrived at our hotel. It was situated close to the central station but on, what is known as, the "rough" side of the station. When Kristian heard the name of the street he started to laugh. "Don´t be surprised if there are topless bars and stripclubs close by" he said.

Well, he was right. just beside the hotel and right across from the hotel we found both! (Leave it to me!!!)However the hotel itself was lovely. It was clean and cosy and very central to everything and actually the area was very quiet too!!

So after leaving our bags off at the hotel we headed out into the big city! After walking around for a while we found a restaurant that we BOTH were happy with. Yummie, the food was good and the company was rather exceptional!! haha

After dinner we headed over to the largest cinema in Denmark, in fact it´s the largest in all of Scandinavia. It can seat 1100 people! We went to see "The Tourist". It was really good. Just our type of film! Then it was home to the hotel which was only a 5 minute walk away:-) (But I was frozen to the bone by the time we got there!)

This morning we had a wonderful long lie in before eating breakfast and heading out to explore Copenhagen once again.

We decided to visit the "Round Tower". We have been there many times but it´s wonderful to see over Copenhagen from the top of the tower. Also there was an exhibition there that we wanted to see called "Hungry Planet."

There were photos of families from all over the world showing what their food consumption was for one week. The families stood with all the food for the week, laid out on a table before them. It was amazing to see how much food some of us people consume. There was loads of information about the country and the family. There was also information about how much the food cost the family. One family in Germany spent 3000 kr on food in a week! (That´s about £330!) It was interesting to compare the european countries with each other and then compare us with places like Ghana and Chad. It was such an interesting exhibition.

Over the years we have explored many places in Copenhagen, but one place we never have been is The National Museum. So after visitng the Round Tower we headed there. It was very interesting, although Kristian and I both agreed that we were more art gallery people. One good thing happened in the museum - I met my knight in shining armour!!!

After walking around the Museum for an hour or so, we thought about going over to the Museum of Art to see some paintings. Unfortunately our poor wee legs refused to carry us any further. We are just getting too old and can´t do as much as we would like, so I think another date in Copenhagen needs to be arranged!!

It has been a wonderful 24 hours and when we came home the house was still standing and the kids were still alive!!