Today we have one last tour before heading to the airport. We did a Copenhagen City Tour where our first stop was to a statue of the Little Mermaid which sits in the harbor. The statue is the symbol of Copenhagen and one of the most popular tourist sites in the city. Our tour then continued to the Royal Palace, where the queen and her family still live. It was time for the changing of the guards while we were at the palace. The guards here were much friendlier than the ones in England.
Our next stop was the Copenhagen’s Cathedral – “The Church of our Lady”. Inside there are statues of the twelve apostles. There is a statue of Christ at the altar with a baptismal font being held by a guardian angel in front of it. We went past the home of Han Christian Anderson.
Our final stop was to a fishing village – Dragor. We walked through the village where the homes were very small and quaint. Many of the houses still have thatched roofs. The amount of details along the roofs would show how wealthy the home owner was. The sides of narrow streets were lined with an assortment of beautiful flowers. One of the interesting things we saw was mirrors outside the windows so the people inside could see what was happening on the streets.
After our tour we were dropped off at the airport. What a mad house that was. I told Jay it was worse than Chicago’s O’Hare Airport if you can imagine anything worse than Chicago’s airport. You can’t check in until 2 hours before your flight and the lines to drop your bags would take at least that long. Luckily Jay is Gold status with Star Alliance, so our line there was only 3 people ahead of us instead of a couple hundred. As we were waiting for our flight, we noticed a women walking. The closer she got to us the stranger she looked. It was a man dressed as a woman!!!! He was wearing white tights, green shorts, white shirt, a head band and really red lipstick. Unfortunately we couldn’t get our camera out quick enough. (To each his own!) I had to try a Danish danish at the airport and Jay had a local beer. We made it back to Munich and the real world without any problems. No more having our meals prepared and the bed turned down with chocolates on the pillows. It was a great trip!!!
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