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We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
Junior Common Room
This space has recently been renovated. You can find a photo of the new space by looking for DH-2002.
HONDA CENTER CELEBRÓ SU 25 ° ANIVERSARIO EL 19 DE JUNIO DE 2018
Hace veinticinco años, el ícono de la música Barry Manilow subió al escenario en la gran inauguración de las instalaciones de primer nivel de Anaheim. Desde esa noche, el Honda Center ha albergado más de 4,000 eventos y más de 39 millones de invitados. Conmemorando su 25 aniversario, el Honda Center celebró con una gran variedad de eventos en el principal lugar de entretenimiento del Condado de Orange. Durante el último cuarto de siglo, Honda Center se ha ganado el estatus de clase mundial al hospedar a los principales nombres del entretenimiento. Las leyendas de la música que han tomado el escenario OC a lo largo de los años incluyen a The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Elton John, Barbra Streisand, U2, Janet Jackson y muchos más. Los fanáticos han visto crecer la carrera de los artistas frente a sus ojos. Beyonce actuó con Destiny's Child dos veces y como solista cuatro veces. Justin Timberlake actuó con Nsync en 1999 y 2002, y solo cuatro veces desde entonces. Twenty One Pilots abrió para Fall Out Boy en 2013, y pasó a encabezar shows consecutivos con entradas agotadas en 2017. El Honda Center ha organizado recorridos memorables que significaron momentos significativos para los fanáticos incluyendo: Van Morrison con Joni Mitchell y Bob Dylan compartiendo escenario en 1998, Gwen Stefani, originaria del Condado de Orange y No Doubt Tsunami Relief en 2005, la reunión de The Police en 2007, Roger Waters The Wall en 2010, el 40 aniversario de Neil Diamond en 2012, "History of the Eagles Tour" en 2014 fue la última producción con Glenn Frey antes de su fallecimiento, y Fleetwood Mac reunió a Christine McVie en 2014. En 2019, los fanáticos pueden ser parte de la historia de la música cuando Elton John traiga su gira Farewell Yellow Brick Road a Anaheim. En los últimos 25 años, los fanáticos han sido tratados no solo con lo mejor en música, sino también con increíbles entretenimientos deportivos y familiares. En siete ocasiones distintas, la NCAA trajo March Madness al Condado de Orange, con la octava vez en 2019. El Honda Center ha organizado siete eventos de UFC, incluido el primero en California y el primer evento femenino, empatando la mayor cantidad de eventos de UFC fuera de Las Vegas, NV. Todos los años, las estrellas de Disney on Ice, Harlem Globetrotters, Professional Bull Riders, Stars on Ice y WWE deslumbran a las multitudes. En 2019, Honda Center recibirá a los mejores patinadores del mundo en el Campeonato de patinaje artístico ISU Four Continents. Los Anaheim Ducks celebrarán su 25 ° aniversario en la próxima temporada de hockey 2018-19. El Honda Center y los Anaheim Ducks son uno de los tres tándems Arena / NHL que celebran un aniversario conectado. En 2007, los Anaheim Ducks se convirtieron en el primer campeón de la Copa Stanley en la historia de California. Juntos, Anaheim Ducks y Honda Center atrajeron a miles de fanáticos a una celebración de 25 años juntos. El Honda Center continúa mejorando las instalaciones y las mejoras en todo el edificio, todo con el fin de crear una experiencia excelente para cada huésped visitante. Actualmente, el reemplazo del asiento del tazón del edificio está en marcha, y la primera fase se completará para este otoño. En los últimos 25 años, Henry y Susan Samueli, propietarios de Anaheim Arena Management, han invertido más de $ 100 millones de dólares en modernizaciones de las instalaciones de vanguardia, incluido el espacio de entretenimiento interior-exterior de 15,000 pies cuadrados llamado Shock Top Terrace. En otoño de 2017, la entrada sur del edificio se amplió para agregar 10,000 pies cuadrados de espacio de reunión y presenta cuatro nuevos conceptos de comida y bebida, incluido el primer bar en el edificio con 14 puntos de servicio que devuelve a los fanáticos a la acción más rápido. Veinticinco años después, Honda Center continúa demostrando ser el mejor lugar en el Condado de Orange para que los fanáticos experimenten lo mejor en música, deportes y entretenimiento familiar. "Honda Center puede estar cumpliendo 25 años, ¡pero la arena nunca se vio mejor!", Dijo Tim Ryan sobre las actualizaciones continuas al lugar. "Con todas las mejoras emocionantes de los fanáticos que hemos implementado, el edificio sigue sintiéndose actual. ¡Esperamos ofrecer muchos más momentos memorables en los próximos años! "
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This is the only original building left at Cheltenham Racecourse station, the booking office (built at Swindon Works) situated above the down platform at SO953250, HCL 18 63. The station opened 12.3.1912 and originally had two waiting shelters, a signal box on the up platform and nothing else. The other buildings on the site now are all new built. A 1-in-14 path leads down to each platform which were very busy on race days, and this was probably one of the few country stations which had crowd control barriers in place! Both then and now special trains are run for the key events at the racecourse, not least Gold Cup week in March. See www.gwsr.com for more. The station closed 25.3.1968 but opened for special events and races in the 1970's, with HM The Queen arriving here on 7.4.1971, and the final BR service to the station was 18.3.1976. It reopened on the GWSR on 12.4.2003, and a handful of photos follow, all photographed with the kind permission of the station staff.
This space has recently been renovated. You can find a photo of the new space by looking for DH-2002.
We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
This space has recently been renovated. You can find a photo of the new space by looking for The Mezzanine.
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When the information & booking office closed along with the Hyde Park Road depot closed in the early 1980's FCD292D was converted to take over the office role, driven from Hilsea every morning to the back of the old depot where it remained all day until it returned to Hilsea in the evening, it was latter replaced after Southdown rented a near by shop.
The photo has not survived the passage of time to well thus the HDR effect
Riaperta al culto dopo 9 anni, la chiesa di Santa Maria dell’Isola sorge su un bellissimo isolotto che è riconosciuto come simbolo di Tropea, nota località turistica del Tirreno calabrese.
Probabilmente in passato poiché l’isolotto era staccato dalla terra ferma era divenuto meta di intrepidi eremiti, successivamente a seguito del sisma del 1783 e dell’onda anomala scaturita da esso l’isola di Santa Maria venne allineata all’arenile Tropeano.
Sulla chiesa dell’isola che da poco è stata riaperta al culto c’è molto da dire, immersa nella tipica vegetazione mediterranea accompagnata da aiuole e panchine dove ristorarsi e godere di una vista spettacolare, si erge maestosa questa basilica voluta dai Benedettini.
La chiesa S. Maria de Tropea, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis compariva “nell’elenco delle dipendenze della Badia Cassinese” redatto sulle formelle della porta di bronzo (fuse tra l’altro a Costantinopoli) per commissione dell’abate di Montecassino Desiderio.
Già nel 1066, quando fu fusa la porta di bronzo della Badia Cassinese l’isola appare menzionata.
Ancor oggi appartiene alla diocesi di Montecassino. Il culto di una Madonna taumaturga in essa praticato, si diffuse tra le popolazioni rurali di tutto l’arco occidentale del Poro ed assieme a quello di S.Maria de Latinis si contrappose a quello di una Madonna dei seguaci del rito greco: la Madonna di Romania. Subito dopo l’avvento Normanno il romito di Santa Menna su cui venne edificata la basilica, lasciò il passo alla latinizzazione di Tropea.
La nuova dinastia normanna apportò numerose modifiche alla basilica “duchi normanni Sichelgaita e suo figlio Ruggiero Borsa”
Effettivamente tutti i documenti visionati, raccontano di una chiesa probabilmente di grande rilevanza che senza dubbio amministrava cospicui beni. Effettivamente narra una leggenda che in tempi remotissimi una nave dall’Oriente approdò sull’isolotto di Tropea e non riprese più il largo fin quando la statua lignea della Vergine non fu sbarcata.
Effigge miracolosa posta in una grotta poi traslata in una caverna sotterranea su cui nacque la basilica. Tuttavia della statua miracolosa si sono perse le tracce. Inoltre senza datazione grafica e nella difficoltà di reperire materiale di studio riporto fedelmente quanto asseriscono gli studiosi locali sulla Basilica, un continum di ricostruzioni:
In origine fu costruito un edificio di culto a forma quadrata con vano centrale circondato da peribolo con volta a botte, delimitato dal vano centrale da pilastri ed archi a conci tufacei. Del peribolo rimangono intatti un lato e la maggior parte del secondo. Questi due lati oggi sono ben visibili e nella pianta allegata (ndr: non c’è alcuna pianta allegata) sono segnati in neretto. Sono tutt’ora indenni anche le volte a botte nella zona pilastrata segnata in neretto. Negli altri due lati non sono stati fatti dei saggi. Non è stato fatto lo spoglio del pavimento per ricercare eventuali tracce nel sottosuolo.
Fu operato un rifacimento dello stesso edificio con modifiche ed aggiunte, visibili nello stacco di alcune zone murarie.
In età gotica l’edificio fu restaurato e riadattato con costruzione di ambienti con volta a crociera gotica costolana. Vi rimane una semicrociera nel vano tra l’Altare, la Cisterna e la parte terminale dell’edificio primitivo segnato in neretto. A questi lavori seguì una consacrazione del tempio come è indicato da una iscrizione ancora sul posto: Anno Domini MCCCLXXXXVII XXIII mensis aprilis indictione quinta consecrata est ecclesia sanctae Mariae de Insula de Tropea. Riguardano questa età alcune sculture sepolcrali conservate anche se non in condizioni di integrità.
Qualche secolo dopo l’edificio subì una radicale trasformazione. Fu sventrato nella parte centrale. Vi furono aggiunti i pilastri ed archi con volta a botte. L’interno prese la forma di piccola basilica con le irregolarità dovute alla conservazione delle parti salvabili del primitivo edificio. L’esterno prese l’aspetto di parallelepipedo sormontato dalla volta della navata centrale con l’estradosso allo scoperto, di effetto stranamente arabeggiante.
Verso la fine del Seicento vi fu aggiunto un portico, nella parte indicata dall’allegata pianta con le diciture Sacrestia, Portico, Deposito e nel vano retrostante il Deposito. Quest’aggiunta diede la possibilità di costruire nel piano superiore una serie di stanzette per abitazione degli eremiti.
Più tardi il portico fu in parte eliminato murando gli archi che sono tutt’ora rilevabili sotto la muratura. Ne rimasero aperti solo tre. Da un lato vi si ricavò la sacrestia, dall’altro il deposito. In fondo si aprì una porta, si sventrò il muro terminale della navata centrale e della navatella destra e si allungò la pianta della chiesa.
Nel 1810 esistevano nell’orto, nella parte nord dell’edificio altri vani che furono poi eliminati senza lasciarvi tracce visibili.
Dopo il terremoto del 1905 fu rifatta tutta la facciata che aveva subito il crollo dell’arco centrale del portico, dandole l’aspetto non certo felice che conserva tutt’oggi. Oggi la Chiesa, ospita le statue della Sacra famiglia (al momento sistemate presso la chiesa del Rosario), portate in processione in mare ad ogni 15 di agosto. Per raggiungere la Chiesa a tre navate si accede attualmente da una ripidissima scalinata scavata nel tufo, prima però ci si poteva inerpicare sull’isola Bella attraverso gli scogli. Sul percorso era comunque possibile ammirare una chiesetta dedicata a San Leonardo che però venne utilizzata dai pescatori per custodire gli arnesi. Inoltre un bellissimo museo custodisce i segreti del Santuario.
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Consigliere Commissione Cultura Cds
Centro Studi e Ricerche
Comitati Due Sicilie
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We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
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We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.