

We woke early to the ship chugging into the harbour, packed the last of our bags, breakfasted and said good bye to our tiny cabin and the crew.
We walked out of the terminal and decided to splash out on a taxi to our hotel to deliver our luggage. Our taxi driver was not Danish (not a shocker) and told us in great detail about his homeland, Algeria.
We were very glad that the hotel let us check in early and we leave our things in our room.
We decided to walk across town to the Little Mermaid first as most other sights were still closed. Copenhagen is a typical European city with a wide variety of buildings of architectural styles spanning a few hundred years. Unfortunately also typical of Europe, there is much facade restoration and general construction going on. Statues and diggers and coffee shops in churches and high fashion retail and heavy metal concert posters all rolled in one.
We didn't realise how long a 5 km cross town trek can be. We finally found the little mermaid statue and squashed through the crowd to take our pictures. After the statue we wandered back to the fort and the Churchill park.
For lunch we stopped at a coffee shop and indulged in danish open sandwiches on ecological bread (that means bread that makes your gut work hard - fibre, lots of fibre). Mine was potato, tomato and onion with clods on mayonnaise.
After lunch we used the map and our googled directions to the highlight of Ebens day, the Tesla showroom! The saleslady seems to deal with a lot of tourists and was very friendly about us taking photos and looking around.
After Tesla we decided to go look for what google and Restaurant magazine dub "the best restaurant in the world", Noma. It is discretely located on a small pier along the waterfront and unless we had had google maps open, we would have never found it. It has a very discretely labelled entrance for such a fantastically singular and expensive place.
After Noma (we only went as far as the sign outside) we consulted our map for one final sight for the day and settled for the Artillery Museum. We walked back across the river, past the famous Black Diamond Library, round the Danish Jewish Museum and found the Artillery. We spend much time on the ground floor with hundreds of cannons before finally finding our way upstairs to the real museum. Artillery histroy from 1500 to the present. I was very impressed by the extent of the collection of armour and uniforms and guns and swords and military history. Unfortunately, they closes and kicked us out before we could see it all.
We finally turned our tired coblestone worn out feet towards our hotel and walked back via the shopping area for some souvenirs. MrT hunted down a pharmacy for meds for his head cold (so we might survive the 10 hour flight Frankfurt to Joburg).
Tonight I think we'll be doing a nearby unimaginative and be ready to get up again in the middle of the night to get to the airport.
Tomorrow is our final day of our (North) Europe/Scandanavia trip which we will spend in Frankfurt. I am looking forward to good food and drink.