Danish Breakfast

A Danish breakfast on a rainy Sunday, Copenhagen.

Tivoli

We are joined in Copenhagen by our great friend and T's godmother!

Tivoli is the 2nd oldest amusement park in the world and is located bang in the centre of Copenhagen (just across this road from the central train station...

On the ferris wheel (video with view)

Some great views of an absolutely enjoyable park. The gardens are immaculately kept and the rides are beautifully themed and done.

Lunch at Price's Diner, one of maybe 20+ different restaurants in the park. Chicago hot dogs and a children's hamburger please... oh and a chocolate milkshake, and of course a half-litre carafe of white wine please!

One of many rides that a 103cm 5 year old can go on. This was a little slow after the roller coasters, including the Odin Express (whizzes you around the track 3 times) and "The Roller Coaster" - a fantastically vintage roller coaster with the majority of the track built from wood, and requiring a "driver" to apply the brakes, with full blackout tunnels in an awesome fake mountain set...! T loved it... and so did I!

Tivoli gardens and lakes...

Rides... So many rides!

Pirate Ship (video)

The Mine (video)

T got 2 wrist bands - she could take one other adult on each ride she was going on (otherwise rides usually cost between 25 and 75Kr). Clever!

The Tivoli. Well worth a visit in Copenhagen!!

Faroes

From Legoland, we flew straight to Faroe Islands.

We picked up a car (and some of us picked up some sleep time, having left the resort fairly early in the morning), and drove into town.

 Torshavn, the capital, boasts itself as "one of the smallest capitals in the world", where "life moves at a civilised pace". It is small, easy and certainly beautiful. We had sushi for our first meal in the Faroes. Salmon sushimi was, unsurprisingly, melt-in-your-mouth divine!

Lots of real life ones of these to be seen in the islands...

Visited the northern parts of Esturoy island - short hikes and dramatic coastal scenery...

And it never gets dark! View from our apartment at 11:30pm.

We wound up coming back to the apartment after T managed to wet her socks and shoes (yes, it is 12 degrees feeling like 8 in the wind at some of these coastlines!)... and ended up building a Lego Doctor Who Tardis as our evening activity. Fun!

Legoland

A highlight of the trip.

We arrived at Legoland, Billund, Denmark - the town where Lego comes from - about noon on Saturday.

We dropped off our bags and headed into the park. 

A view from the Legoland revolving lookout tower.

We went on a boat, plane, mono-rail, train, roller-coasters, pirate-ship, safari jeep, airboat, canoe...

There were so many rides for a 103cm tall speed demon to go on!

Dinners at the Legoland resort have a buffet table for the shorter, little people.

Our attempt at the Hong Kong flag on the free build wall in the hotel

Captain Red-beard guarded our hotel pirate galleon...

Darth Vader welcomed guests to the hotel

Rides, rides, and more rides. Our favourites were The Dragon (a roller-coaster that starts out slow going through a cave of a castle, then speeds up full speed) which we went on 4 times, the Ninjago Ride (a ride with 3D glasses where you shoot ninja stars and score points), and the Temple (ride where you score points for shooting different colour gems in an Indiana Jones style temple-run), and the Lego Canoe (log canoe with splash at the end).

Every time we lined up for this ride it was sunny, but would start to rain the minute we stepped into the plane. T controlled the height at which the plane flew through a joystick.

Cotton candy for little treasures

A final train ride around the resort 

Building the Lego Frozen castle with new local friends (while adults chat at the bar, of course).

A truly magical experience. The stuff of lifelong memories.

Staying in a Lego Pirate room

360 view of our room

Bye Bye Germany, Hello Denmark!

This morning we packed in the miniatur wunderland (this is impressive!) before a local lunch.

Bye Hamburg!

We then hopped on a 3 hour train from Hamburg, Germany to arrive in Kolding, Denmark. It was a short train (3 carriages) and majorly crowded and busy. We missed the part where they said reservations were recommended, and ended up camped uncomfortably in the Danish carriage for about an hour before getting some seats. 

Hello Kolding, Denmark!

Denmark is K's 77th and T's 30th country to visit!

We're in Kolding for only one night before Legoland. But K and I have decided that we could visit Kolding for more than a week if only for the excellent pizza at Raphael's!

YUM!

#eatingwell

Typical German Fare

Brats and knuckle... beer and wine. Yum!

"These sausages are SOOO good! Yum! These are the best sausages ever!"